03-15-2022, 10:58 PM
(03-15-2022, 10:18 PM)BostonCard Wrote: So the question is whether that pretty good 2017 defense benefited from having been mostly recruited by Mason and the juniors and seniors learning their fundamentals under him, which would imply that the situation is unlikely to reverse itself. On the other hand, if the 2916 team’s defense can at least partially be credited to Lance Anderson, and the recent problems were due to things like a self assessed scholarship reduction (at one point, I think we had 75 players who had actually been recruited to a scholarship, plus a handful of walk ona who were awarded one because we had extra), and temporal gaps in recruiting certain position groups (ie, recruiting four defensive linemen one year and then going two years with one Dl between them), both recruiting issues that we appear to have fixed with our most recent recruiting class, then the future of the defense (if current recruiting trends continue) is better.
Well put, but your musing about the 2916 Stanford football team really has me wondering what else you predict about 900 years from now.