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One correction: Edsall was before Roof. Edsall '98. Roof 99-00.Let's hope that history repeats itself. When Roof left before to go to Duke and O'Leary brought in Edsall, the defense saw improvement right away. Maybe it's just my gold colored glasses, but I thought all year that we had pretty good talent on defense. They just never put it together for an entire game unless the other team really stunk offensively. For several years now, it seemed like we either got a three and out or the other team scored. The reduced number of turnovers since 2014 has been a back breaker.
The only reason I can see that Roof would not change his style of defense even after CPJ told him to was that he is like CPJ. He's going to win or die with his scheme. He must have had that much faith in his methods. Glad to see the change.
And, I agree with your second paragraph. If you're telling your DC or OC to run something they're not used to running, that's usually not going to work out well. You can't immediately become an expert at something else. Telling Roof to become a pressure-defense guy would be like telling CPJ to become a shotgun spread guy.