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Message: [QUOTE="SBU72, post: 2064928, member: 741"] There is a lot of truth in that but I didn't say it was impossible. Freshmen do come in and make a huge impact at the defensive end. Transfers who get to sit a year (ie Johnson) are huge contributors. Even JC players make an impact, I'm thinking like Ognenaet. It may be that the staff now sees how much that 5th years may have to be "reprogrammed" that it they may have to rethink how much they want to go that way OR how they approach training during pre-preseason. They may have thought that experienced players would be easier to retrain and found it takes longer than they thought. But I do think that White and Gillon have shown, it can be done. Then again, if Hoppy is going to take a different approach to defense, it in itself may be easier. Still the offensive end took time for the "new" players get use to each other but that is true all the time. [/QUOTE]