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<blockquote data-quote="Bruce Wayne" data-source="post: 83054" data-attributes="member: 231"><p>I think the OP is minimizing the hackneyed knock on CPJ's offense about "the defense always practice against it so of course they end up bad against most of their opponents." Shaq's comment was that two guys on scout team D this year would be defensive starters, so he has had the opportunity to practice against much higher level athletes than usual.</p><p></p><p>So the question is does that work in reverse since the D starters practicing against offensive scout players are not going up against equivalently strong competition in practice?</p><p></p><p>The issue is less about who is recruited to start at Tech than the depth of the talent that reaches down to scout team players not being challenging enough for the starters in practice. This is a problem at all non-factory schools. It also is the downside of getting freshmen in who are skilled enough to <em>avoid </em>redshirting as that means they don't help improve the upperclassmen starters by running on the scout teams.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bruce Wayne, post: 83054, member: 231"] I think the OP is minimizing the hackneyed knock on CPJ's offense about "the defense always practice against it so of course they end up bad against most of their opponents." Shaq's comment was that two guys on scout team D this year would be defensive starters, so he has had the opportunity to practice against much higher level athletes than usual. So the question is does that work in reverse since the D starters practicing against offensive scout players are not going up against equivalently strong competition in practice? The issue is less about who is recruited to start at Tech than the depth of the talent that reaches down to scout team players not being challenging enough for the starters in practice. This is a problem at all non-factory schools. It also is the downside of getting freshmen in who are skilled enough to [I]avoid [/I]redshirting as that means they don't help improve the upperclassmen starters by running on the scout teams. [/QUOTE]
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