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Jul 11, 2020
11:24:45am
travelcoug All-American
I’ll take this one. You bring the preasure you can without unreasonably
Exposing your defense to risk. For example, if you don’t have the edge rushers to confidently get to the qb then you you play a coverage scheme to frustrate the qb

You bring the pressure you can given the personnel you have Given the personnel you have.

Let’s look at an example of This.

Let’s say for argument sakes that you take over a team that runs a 3 man front and try to transition to a 4 man front.

You are at a disadvantage. Why?

Because numbers that’s why. The first year you work the other guys recruits and try to run your four man front but you ding that you are short. When you run a 3 man front you have 7 - 8 scholarships dedicated to defensive linemenEveryone you have is in the two deep and some aren’t that level of players or haven’t developed. You have 4 or 5 who are ready for that level.

So you bring linebackers in as a rush end or you gadget but that exposes you and people figure out what the issue is and you are screwed.

So in that offseason you recruit,

To run a 4 man front you need 11 to 12 scholarships dedicated to d line which is an increase of 4 scholarships. Do you go out and get four guys in one year to fill that up? No

The chances of getting 4 top notch d line in one year is not good. Let alone the fact that you would need two extra because of graduation, now you are looking for 6. You try to get 2.

At a normal school that is a 3 year project. At BYU that is a 4-5 year project to build the personnel necessary to run that 4 man front like it needs to be run. What do you do in the meantime? You play people out of position to try to accomplish the same thing. Does it work? Sometimes.

This year is the first time that we Have the personnel to run the 4 man front.

Towards the end there were times that bronco had 13 or 14 scholarships for linebackers and 7 for defensive line. Those numbers needed to flip flop.

It was the same with o-line. We had sometimes 13 scholarships for o- line under bronco and at times couldn’t go full in spring because they didn’t have 10.

Now we have 16 - 18. Much better but it takes a while
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