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[QUOTE="cmr27, post: 2140485, member: 215"]
SI for Kids had an 11-year old ask Frank Martin a question after the SC game.

Here's what he asked:

"Your team clearly won the defensive battle tonight. When you coach and teach your team defense, what’s more important, technique or attitude?"

Apparently, Dennis Dodd is a squish. Dodd and some other journalist flipped out that a kid was asking a question. Dodd called it "an insult to the profession." Well...

I'm posting this because Newhouse should offer this kid right now. That's the single best question I've ever heard from a post-game presser. It perfectly encapsulates the man v zone debate at Syracuse for the last two decades and transfers well to anyone's career of choice outside sports. I'd pay money to hear Belichick, Popovich and Joe Madden answer the same question.

Martin's answer here:

FRANK MARTIN: First of all, a lot of respect to you. That’s a heck of a question. I’ve been doing this a long time and that’s the first time anyone’s ever asked me that. That’s a heck of a question. Attitude comes first. We got to have guys that are going to believe in our mission, that are going to believe in what we want to do. Once they believe, then we can teach them the technique. It all starts with our mindset. We have got guys that are completely bought into what we do.

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