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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 1595729, member: 229"]
6-2 is fine.  6-1 205 for high school LB is fine to.  We wouldn't have recruited Zaire if height was going to be a pre-req, or Paris Bennett, or Shu, or Troy Henderson or Cam Lynch or any number of players.  It's a bad idea to run a defense at Syracuse that's going to require factory size players.

Not to mention the way to attack a Tampa 2 is the spread.  Is the Tampa2 the way to go in the ACC ?  not imo.

Safety is the ONLY area where size has been exposed on our defense and needs to be upgraded.  6-2 corners with great ball skills are a premium.  Whigham was our tallest corner 6-0+.  Reddish was 5-11.  Kevin Abrams 5-8.

I'll take the Shafer Bollough defense and players over Ward every day of the week.  SU Defensive rankings since 2008:

2015 - #99 (bowling green #78)
2014 - #26
2013 - #33
2012 - #48
2011 - #64
2010 - #7
2009 - #37
2008 - #101

Defensively this team was good enough to win 8, 9, 10 games a season if the offense didn't suck so bad.  I guess what I'm saying is if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Ruff doesn't look like a kid who flys to the ball either.  He looks like a DE more than a MLB, and that's OK by me to b/c we have NO defensive ends.  I'm really curious to see what they have in mind for him.
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