The upside of losing a Big 12 football game to Iowa State 30-10 is that University of Cincinnati head football coach Scott Satterfield may have found a more effective defense.
Satterfield trusts and has worked with Iowa State coach Matt Campbell who was on the plus side of that score. When Bryan Brown departed UC to coach defense at his alma mater, Ole Miss, Satterfield eyeballed Iowa State associate head coach/linebackers coach Tyson Veidt to shore up a defensive unit that gave up 402.8 yards per game. Iowa State’s group averaged out at 363.2 per game.
Along with a new defensive coordinator comes a new scheme for the University of Cincinnati Bearcats this spring: the 3-3-5.
The Cincinnati Bearcats are installing a 3-3-5 defense for use in the Big 12 this season.
That’s three down linemen, three linebackers/rushers and five guys in the secondary with an array of talents and possibilities to give quarterbacks headaches. That’s the look Veidt brought to the “513” from Ames where Iowa State deployed it to much success. It stifled a Bearcat offense last Oct. 14 that averaged 217.1 yards rushing and 209 yards passing to 115 yards rushing and just 99 through the air.
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The so-called “flyover” defense is meant to balance, the run, pass and run/pass option. Two of UC’s major college transfers should help, defensive end Mikah Coleman and linebacker Jared Bartlett.
Mikah Coleman
Depending on who did the measuring, the transfer from Eastern Michigan is in the 6-foot-4 to 6-foot-5 range with a wingspan that helped lead the Eagles in sacks with 4.5 and tackles for loss at 6.5. Coleman packs 265 pounds on his frame and is happy to be in Cincinnati, not far from his…
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Publish date : 2024-03-22 17:02:58
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