"In the modern world of college football, UConn needs to move the ball and score points. Yet there are some inescapable points about Crocker's importance, too......
"Diaco, the DC when Notre Dame got to the national title game, was obsessed with defense and staging press conference shows. If he spent as much time managing the entire program as he did trying to figure out ways to run more time off the clock and telling stories about fish cakes and Nickelodeon he may still have a job in Storrs........He had a very good collection of defensive players, yet they dipped from 33rd to 65th in total defense (355 to 441 yards) from 2015. They gave up 28.1 points (also 65th) and were next to last in the AAC in pass defense, sacks (17) and interceptions (seven). Those numbers didn't come nearly close enough to covering an offense that averaged 14.8 points a game."
"I knew we had to do things a little bit different on defense," Edsall said. "In this day and age it's hard to find down linemen. Look at the league we play in with spread offenses and three- and four-wide receiver sets. The 3-3-5 gives you a lot of flexibility to face what we're going to see most of the time. It's also a matter of the best opportunity of attracting the kind of kids you can get."
"His defense will be aggressive. It will not be in containment mode."
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"Diaco, the DC when Notre Dame got to the national title game, was obsessed with defense and staging press conference shows. If he spent as much time managing the entire program as he did trying to figure out ways to run more time off the clock and telling stories about fish cakes and Nickelodeon he may still have a job in Storrs........He had a very good collection of defensive players, yet they dipped from 33rd to 65th in total defense (355 to 441 yards) from 2015. They gave up 28.1 points (also 65th) and were next to last in the AAC in pass defense, sacks (17) and interceptions (seven). Those numbers didn't come nearly close enough to covering an offense that averaged 14.8 points a game."
"I knew we had to do things a little bit different on defense," Edsall said. "In this day and age it's hard to find down linemen. Look at the league we play in with spread offenses and three- and four-wide receiver sets. The 3-3-5 gives you a lot of flexibility to face what we're going to see most of the time. It's also a matter of the best opportunity of attracting the kind of kids you can get."
"His defense will be aggressive. It will not be in containment mode."
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