He said in his presser yesterday that the ODU defense greatly limits what a team is able to do on offense. He further said that he spoke about that going into the game, knowing we would be limited on offense because of the defense they run. I guess my question is, if the defense they run automatically limits what opposing offenses can do, why doesn’t everybody in football just run that defense so that nobody in college football can score many points? Obviously, I think if Georgia or Alabama played ODU, they would not feel limited on offense strictly because of the defense ODU was running.
He said: “The way they play defense makes it tough to do a lot of things. Just the structure of their defense. They take away a lot. This isn't a, 'They are Old Dominion. You should be able to do this.' They take away a lot with what they do schematically. It was going to be a challenge. I said that on the radio show last week. I said that leading up to it that the way they play defense is different and is a challenge.”
I’d rather him just say we weren’t prepared for some of the things they did or something along those lines other than saying we were just helpless to do anything because of their particular defense.
I just don’t understand how this is possible. Frankly, you have the whole preseason to prepare for that particular defense, and you can’t come up with anything? He said that he told people ahead of the game that their defense would take away some of the things we normally do, so it’s not like he didn’t know. But we didn’t prepare a game plan for it?
