for early returns on that sorta defensive scheme, then you definitely DON'T bring it into college w kids who've never done anything like it before.

Let ALONE w a rebuilt college team. A team that was already gonna take time shaking out its best rotation.

That said, I'm looking forward to where KY & Voigt have this team by conf play. They definitely have NOT blueprinted a formula for early success. That would've called for a bread-n-butter D1 defensive scheme.

My guess is KY saw all this coming, & has granted Voigt a lot of slack in getting everything installed — & knew his players would need a lot of patience along the way. Everything about KY's persona & actions till this point suggests to me that he is more than okay with taking avoidable losses gracefully on the chin if it's the right course for his team to take.

One ace in our hand is between our returning core & the specialness of Egor Demin — I think we're built to gut out nail-biters in a way we rarely are at BYU.

(I say this all as a guy who HATES watching his team play terrible defense. It was a main reason I was always a big Mark Pope fan. For now, I give the terrible D a pass — largely because I'm trying to figure out what's so good about it — potentially. Riverside definitely was ready for it (or at least ready for our presently clunky version of it. They were definitely shooting to exploit the switches.).)