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Message: [QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 2015745, member: 668"] I for one will never believe that the caliber of athletes that we recruit, whom have been playing highly competitive man to man their entire lives before coming to SU just can't play a whiff of it. Miraculously, these same players that we don't get that end up going to other P5 schools seem to be able to play it at their respectively school just fine. Additionally, playing man to man D is not as cumbersome or complex as playing our particular zone. Furthermore, playing solid m2m D is primarily the mental mindset, toughness, grit, heart, effort, etc. to play it. There's really never a good excuse not to play good defense based upon the aforementioned, unless, you're simply over matched physically and athletically. SU, being an alleged 'elite' program with the type of recruits we typically get are very seldom over matched athletically. [/QUOTE]