Stickboy46 wrote:Then I'm not sure what your point was. If both of the teams run hard systems, one struggles with it, the other doesn't. How does that do anything to say that the coach that struggles is the better coach?
Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the point of your original post?
These things are relative, but Ben has coached some very good defensive teams with less athletic players. Is that disputed? I'm not saying that WSU doesn't put out a great defense, so don't think I am.
I'm saying that for Ben to get what he gets out of his players, they must learn to execute his system as a team. And that relatively speaking, this high level of defensive success is more dependent on team system execution than individual athleticism. Thus, for UNI in particular, newcomers simply can't do it until they learn it.