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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 3298309, member: 2133"]
That's a tough hypothetical because there are a lot of variables involved.  I just don't think that there is only one way to skin a cat.  Huggins seems to get his teams to play well defensively regardless of personnel and under different schemes.

The guys that go play at UVA and Wisconsin aren't uber talented, but they play exceptional defense year in and year out regardless of personnel.  Texas Tech under Beard has been doing the same.  I don't like the pack-line though because I think it leads to ugly basketball, which is where the zone has been since Ennis.

If playing 100% 2-3 zone was the most effective way to get a group of 5-8 guys into the top-20 defenses year in and year out, I think we'd see a lot more teams playing that way and recruiting that way.  Bu they don't. So, I think Syracuse handicaps themselves trying to get the zone to work as well as it can.  Next season isn't going to be much better because Buddy and JGIII aren't going anywhere.  John Gillon got a lot of heat on these forums because he was bad defensively, but his stats and Buddy's are eerily similar.
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