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Golden Nuggets: Game Day for Men’s and Women’s Basketball. Peter Sirmon interviewed.

With you coaching inside linebackers, how does the technique you teach them in a 3-4 or 4-2-5 compare to what you’d teach in a 4-3

There’s some differences before the ball is snapped, in alignment and spacing, in 4-3 spacing, the alignment at linebacker is a lot more critical, because of the gap down spacing of the defense. In 3-4 spacing, there’s a lot more to coach after the ball is snapped, but before the ball is snapped alignments aren’t as critical. Some home alignments, they can survive, but linebacker play is linebacker play, there’s fundamentals.