Thanks_Tom RR
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Where you expecting to find a conversation about expectations? Here you go.
You win the game by beating the opponent down physically and mentally and intimidating them
It still all comes down to Defence. You can't say we will just out score everyone 60-57.
Some used to refer to the soft non-attacking approach as "bend but don't break' or 'prevent' or keep em in front of you defense (Diaco's 'strain' approach - I guess that's what he was trying to do ???? Theory being: force the offense to run more snaps and sooner or later they will make mistakes and fail to execute (missed blocks, penalties, dropped passes, errant throws, t, misreads, mental mistakes, etc).
Moiraine said:I'm always positive going into a new season but this is still the same old coach speak we've been hearing for years now. Sometimes it makes us excited for the season which is good, but we've had terrible coaches say all the right things before.
Anyhow, my point is, we have no idea whether Chinander will make the defense great. In fact there's argument to be had that UCF didn't do a good job at the end of last year and a lot of UCF fans weren't too happy with him. I fall on the side of not holding that against him since the team was tired and playing againat the best offenses they'd faced all year. But still.
Only time will tell how Chin does but he does seem like a Nebraska kind of guy and only going into his third season as a DC he should improve with experience.
Like I said in another thread, the better offenses can and will out-execute against a defense like that. Bo was often guilty of it too: how many times did we hear him say "we just didn't execute"?