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[QUOTE="dyedorange, post: 1320440, member: 3729"]
So we've been playing zone "almost exclusively" for 20 years, yet the critical juncture is when we started exclusively *practicing* zone?  I would think all those SU teams that played zone "almost exclusively" in games also played it almost exclusively in practices...or else maybe they practiced a lot of M2M, but then magically were just really good at zone when JB wanted to play it in games?  Basically, I'm trying to figure out where you come up with the Lemoyne game as the turning point.

Regardless of that strain of argument, I still fail to see a correlation between how much we practice M2M on D and how successful we are in attacking M2M on O.  In my mind they're two separate things.  As a counterpoint, how many times have we seen teams come out and kill it against our zone?  Teams that don't practice zone as their main defense regularly, and ONLY practice it when they're preparing to play against us.  In other words, you don't have to exclusively practice a specific D in order to be able to attack that same D on the offensive side.

And I still don't get your angle on JB going zone just to spite the media.  You say it's hard to claim otherwise, yet JB goes into detail in his book about why he started practicing zone exclusively.  So all those logical, strategic reasons he gives are just dismissed?  In favor of what--the man is so full of rage against the media that he, over the course of [U]6 seasons[/U], implements a defensive scheme that is so obviously meritless that the only explanation is that he's doing it to piss them off?
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