Hey den,
Since we are in the dead period of the off season and patiently waiting for football to be back I thought I would write a little bit about the 3-4 defense and why we have become so much better since changing our defensive philosophy. These thoughts are based on studies I have done here working with the defensive staff at USF and as well what I have gathered being able to talk to a couple guys that have worked with Aranda. I won’t write every detail, but I’ll just give you the highlights of why from what I have gathered. For one, as you guys have seen it fits what we can recruit better which also happens to be the same for every other team that’s playing at a disadvantage. This is because when recruiting to the 3-4 your recruiting footprint opens due to the body types you recruit. The first article below will give you more insight why if interested which was wrote by Nate woody who is an outstanding DC at app st.
Next, the biggest advantage to playing the 3-4 as opposed to the 4-3 is it gives you a better chance when you’re of lesser talent. I got a chance to talk to the defensive coordinator at Minnesota for the previous two years last week who took Dave arandas system when aranda went to LSU. As Aranda puts it there are two different defenses you can play, the ones who play 18th century British military (4 down fronts) and the other (3-4) who play guerrilla warfare. This is mainly due to the confusion and flexibility it allows you to have because of the ability to rush the 4th rusher from four different spots. Not only does this cause confusion for blocking schemes in having a clear picture, it confuses the quarterback from knowing the coverage because of your ability to drop an olb who is in a better position to do so than a 4-3 end who is in a down position. Lastly, the statistics back this up. We did a study of the top 20 defenses from the last 4 years that were non-power 5 teams. Over the last 4 years there have been 21 non-power 5 teams who have been top 20 defenses, 15 of those ran 3-4 and the other 6 ran 4-3 or 4-2-5. Furthermore, one thing we saw was the 3-4 defenses didn’t have as big of a drop off, in fact many stayed similar rankings from year to year as opposed to the 4 down fronts. Much of this drop-off which for some was large, was due to their loss of d lineman. This is due to 4 down fronts being much more difficult to recruit to because of the smaller recruiting pool you’re drawing from.
Although there’s much more to this than what I wrote, I thought some of you might find this interesting while were all bored before football is back.
http://buyersguide.coachesdirectory.com/article/woffords-3-4-defense.html
Since we are in the dead period of the off season and patiently waiting for football to be back I thought I would write a little bit about the 3-4 defense and why we have become so much better since changing our defensive philosophy. These thoughts are based on studies I have done here working with the defensive staff at USF and as well what I have gathered being able to talk to a couple guys that have worked with Aranda. I won’t write every detail, but I’ll just give you the highlights of why from what I have gathered. For one, as you guys have seen it fits what we can recruit better which also happens to be the same for every other team that’s playing at a disadvantage. This is because when recruiting to the 3-4 your recruiting footprint opens due to the body types you recruit. The first article below will give you more insight why if interested which was wrote by Nate woody who is an outstanding DC at app st.
Next, the biggest advantage to playing the 3-4 as opposed to the 4-3 is it gives you a better chance when you’re of lesser talent. I got a chance to talk to the defensive coordinator at Minnesota for the previous two years last week who took Dave arandas system when aranda went to LSU. As Aranda puts it there are two different defenses you can play, the ones who play 18th century British military (4 down fronts) and the other (3-4) who play guerrilla warfare. This is mainly due to the confusion and flexibility it allows you to have because of the ability to rush the 4th rusher from four different spots. Not only does this cause confusion for blocking schemes in having a clear picture, it confuses the quarterback from knowing the coverage because of your ability to drop an olb who is in a better position to do so than a 4-3 end who is in a down position. Lastly, the statistics back this up. We did a study of the top 20 defenses from the last 4 years that were non-power 5 teams. Over the last 4 years there have been 21 non-power 5 teams who have been top 20 defenses, 15 of those ran 3-4 and the other 6 ran 4-3 or 4-2-5. Furthermore, one thing we saw was the 3-4 defenses didn’t have as big of a drop off, in fact many stayed similar rankings from year to year as opposed to the 4 down fronts. Much of this drop-off which for some was large, was due to their loss of d lineman. This is due to 4 down fronts being much more difficult to recruit to because of the smaller recruiting pool you’re drawing from.
Although there’s much more to this than what I wrote, I thought some of you might find this interesting while were all bored before football is back.
http://buyersguide.coachesdirectory.com/article/woffords-3-4-defense.html
