A sort of x-factor for defensive improvement
by scriptcomesfirst 
, Thursday, March 19, 2009, 05:40 (6340 days ago)
I think having Brian Smith as the tone-setter on defense, and combining his personality with that of coaches Hart, Tenuta, and Brown (along with BY), will immediately make us tougher by a large measure. Last year, Smith deferred to Crum, who is a great kid, but hardly a firebrand. Attitude, especially on defense, counts for a lot in the college game IMO.
I see a pre game brawl in our future...
and I'm good with that. "Fighting" Irish and all...
A pre-game brawl is likely
but only if Script and I have had a few too many, and the "TE vs FS" argument gets out of hand...
Luckily, we're old school. Loser buys the winner a beer, and we'll agree to disagree.
Seriously, this is a good thread. Attitude and anger work much better in an aggressive scheme than a read and react scheme. In read and react, if a kid loses his head a little bit, he's likely to blow his read. In an aggressive scheme, it can help the player blast through a block and take someone's head off.
(Except for the DB's, who always have to make the correct read. Luckily all DB's are level-headed deep thinkers...)
"Anger is a Gift."
So says Rage Against the Machine....
When it comes to defensive football & anger...
by scriptcomesfirst , Thursday, March 19, 2009, 11:29 (6340 days ago) @ FunkDoctorSpock
Yoda was wrong.