Dumb question. How do you know this?
I’d tell you then I’d have to kill you. 😉
Had he been somewhere that has proven this strength? I am not saying it isn’t a strength (I honestly have no idea) but I was just wondering what evidence you have for this claim.
Now Rick, if we need evidence for claims, we may as well shut down the site. LOL I do know Doeren was DC for Bret Bielema at Wisconsin for 5 years. There was no reason to fix what was working at Northern Illinois and the DC who was there when he got there continued with what he was using.
So obviously I have no hard evidence. I’m not sure where I came up with this notion. I read everything I can get my hands on about the Pack, the football HC, assistant coaches, the recruiting staff, etc. I am also good friends with the guy who was the fullback in the backfield with Roman Gabriel. There’s a veterans’ dinner the night before the spring game. I pick up stuff from him Roger that he hears and from some of his old teammates.
Put it all those bits and pieces together and drew a conclusion. There was no news story. I’m not friends with Doeren or Hux. I have no real inside information.
I’m also 81 now so my memory ain’t what it used to be. In the cobwebs of my mind I vaguely remember something said about this defense and the change at the beginning of Doeren’s 2nd spring practice. I’m sure that Doeren never coached the 4-2-5 before he installed it here.
I deduced that Doeren saw that defense as the defense to best combat the direction offenses were going. I do know that he and Hux worked together to come up with what they thought best at the time.
Change and evolution is the history of football. Offenses create to defeat the current defenses. Defenses then change to stop the offense that is doing the damage, etc., etc., etc. Before the forward pass 7 & 8 man lines were common place. Then 6 man lines with 3 backers and 2 DB’s. Next 5-3 then 5-2 defenses. All evolving to stop the passing game or latest running game craze. Which brings us to the subject at hand, the 4-2-5.
It could have been as simple as Bret Bielema, the Wisconsin HC moving to Arkansas and Matt Canada installing spread offense wrinkles in his absence and putting 70 pts on Nebraska. That would influence Doeren’s thinking after watching Nebraska trying to stop all that with the 4-3-4
I expect we will see more 3 man lines in the future. With our shortage of D-linemen something like a 3-4-4 might be the best defense for us. Who knows? Doeren isn’t going to ask my opinion.
So the answer to your question, I have no evidence for this claim.
