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So, coach Avalos wants to employ multiple fronts, a killer mentality, and high aggression, while essentially doing what our D did in the bowl game, on a more sophisticated and intelligent level?

I can live with that...

woundedknees wrote:So, coach Avalos wants to employ multiple fronts, a killer mentality, and high aggression, while essentially doing what our D did in the bowl game, on a more sophisticated and intelligent level?

I can live with that...

Is it just me or does every DC says almost the exact same thing?

The 4-3 DT versus 3-4 is not what most here are talking about.

There was a lot of 4-3 run in the Pac-12 last year as sub packages on passing downs, but in reality it was more of a 2-4-5 or 2-3-6. Most of the teams doing it weren't using any true DT or NT personnel in the package at all. They pulled their bigger interior linemen and used pass rushing DEs as DT's then used OLBs as the DEs and usually they were standing. A quick glance based on where they lined up would look like a 4-3 and I heard it called 4-3 but it was speed personnel and 2-4 by both personnel and hands up versus to the ground.

UW had tremendous success with this over the last few years and Oregon, USC and others now use it. Avalos is big on his Stud (Hollins) OLBs and uses them to create his Multiples but no matter what he calls it, an outsider looking at it would say its a 3-4 base and very similar to USC, UW and last years UO.

StevensTechU wrote:

woundedknees wrote:So, coach Avalos wants to employ multiple fronts, a killer mentality, and high aggression, while essentially doing what our D did in the bowl game, on a more sophisticated and intelligent level?

I can live with that...

Is it just me or does every DC says almost the exact same thing?

YES

(Except Hoke who actually did run a Jurassic 4-3 base.)