WHB Brewer
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What's on him is supporting a defensive scheme and system that doesn't work with the personnel he has and then wanting a pass on that because the kids aren't ready. A good coach could design a scheme his defense could execute now and refine it to something else when better personnel become available. What Fleck is doing is equivalent to the Cavaliers continuing to run isolations for Lebron after he has already left for the Lakers and then saying "The system works, we just don't have the personnel in place to make it work."
Kill had put his stamp on the gopher defense by this time in the progression, I guess you could argue we are seeing PJ's stamp on the offense so far, but this defense is in shambles right now. Really no choice but to give it another year and see where it goes.
Revisionist history.
Year 2 for Kill/Claeys and the hallowed defensive scheme
Started non-conf. Season 4-0 (sound familiar)
B10season started with 3 losses (familiar)
L Iowa 13-31
L Northwestern 13-21
L Wisconsin 13-38
Win vs Purdue 44-28
L Michigan 13-35
Win vs Illinois 17-3
L Nebraska 14-38
L Michigan St. 10-26
2-6 overall in B10 with 2 wins over Purdue (who fired their coach) & Illinois (year 1of the Tim Beckman disaster)
Not exactly lock down defense giving up 26+ points in 6 of 8 B10 games
How is “ Kill had put his imprint at this point” any different than Fleck in year 2?
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