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re: Why Do Most High Powered Spread Offenses Have Weak Defenses?
Posted on 10/21/13 at 8:14 pm to bisonduck
Posted on 10/21/13 at 8:14 pm to bisonduck
Just to reiterate - Oregon has 22 guys on defense that were rated 4* or better by one of the major recruiting services (rivals, 247 and scout).
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Posted on 10/21/13 at 8:20 pm to bisonduck
Are you ignoring that I've acknowledged Oregon has a good defense this year?
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Posted on 10/21/13 at 8:26 pm to gatorhata9
People are focusing on highly successful teams, but one of the more obvious answers that most are missing is that high-powered spread offenses are more common amongst smaller and talent-deficient schools because you can control the tempo and style of the offense a lot more easily than that of the defense with marginal talent. To wit, you see lots of high-powered spread offenses with weak defenses simply because there's a talent deficiency on both sides of the ball...but it's easier to compensate for the talent deficiency by running a spread offense than anything you can do with the defense. So the defense isn't actually "weaker" than the offense, it just has fewer options for masking its weaknesses.
Posted on 10/21/13 at 8:34 pm to bisonduck
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Prevot is lighting it up.
And Bralon Addison is as well. He got paid a lot, his parents blabbed about it.
Posted on 10/21/13 at 8:35 pm to bisonduck
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If we're paying for recruits, we paying on the defensive side of the ball too.
Still much harder to attract them in the first place. On offensive player getting offered money is still more likely to be a duck than a defensive player offered money.
Posted on 10/21/13 at 8:56 pm to bisonduck
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Just to reiterate - Oregon has 22 guys on defense that were rated 4* or better by one of the major recruiting services
A&M has 11 this season, none of them are seniors. 8 so far in the 2014 class.
To be an elite defense, you need 30 or more UPPERCLASS 4-star players.
Posted on 10/21/13 at 9:06 pm to CGSC Lobotomy
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A&M has 11 this season, none of them are seniors. 8 so far in the 2014 class. To be an elite defense, you need 30 or more UPPERCLASS 4-star players.
That is one of the dumbest things I've seen posted. To have 30 or more upperclass 4 star players just on defense would make your cycles so lopsided that teams would fall off and be nothing for two years. Even if you kept 75 players in 3 cycles with no attrition, you would only have 37.5 players if you were recruiting both sides of the ball.
No where in your comment did you make sense, we are all dumber for reading it, and God have mercy on your soul.
This post was edited on 10/21/13 at 9:17 pm
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