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Message: [QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 1865297, member: 16"] For better or worse for some people I guess. What makes the 2-3 a fantastic idea is that it forces teams to play in a way they normally don't play. They have to be patient, they have to be good passers, and they have to make shots. They have to make shots ALL game, because they will almost never have the opportunity to break someone down one on one, go to the hole and score against the defense. That's the bread and butter of the AAU circuit, and what most elite players consider their elite skill. SU takes that away from you, and forces you to be uncomfortable. When we have the right personnel for it, it's absolutely deadly The Briles/Babers offense does the same thing. It doesn't allow a defense to get comfortable. Through pace and the spread they force defenses to cover the entire field all the time, to not substitute, and to run a basic defense. It allows our players to play, get into one on one matchups. It also is an offense that literally doesn't care how it gets its yards. Colgate WANTED to stuff the run. That's what they do. So we threw for 437 yards. If they had sent their linebackers out wide constantly for press or closer man coverage, the running game would have been better. We still beat them 33-0 over the last 56 minutes of the game. The 2-3 and the Babers offense are fantastic because they force teams to do what we want them to do. And it's a full system, not just an offense of defense. They recruit for it, they condition for it, they preach why it works. When the team buys in (since it's different from what most of them have been taught for their entire life) it because near impossible to play against. Buckle up folks, this is going to get much, much better. Those FG's will become TD's, and this team WILL become a national team again. It might take a full four year recruiting cycle for them to fully get into top 20/top 15 team year in and year out discussion, but it will happen. This system makes our three stars put up stats like four and five stars, because it puts them in a position to simply play. They can let their athleticism take over, and forces the more talented, more highly recruited defender to have to think, thus making him slower. We're in for a wild ride. Lots of blowouts this year I think, and we'll be on both ends of those blowouts because the system isn't 100% there yet, but it will be. [/QUOTE]

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