With signing day fast approaching, teams should be locking up their prized recruits...  how do you lock up your top defensive players when they don't know who their Defensive Coordinator is or even what defense they are going to be running.

Well, it appears that I'm not the only one wondering why Michigan hasn't hired a DC yet.

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So, rumors have it that not only will Michigan have a new DC next year, but possibly a new base defense as well.  Rumors being rumors and all, lets forge ahead.  I mentioned one of the concerns I have regarding this defensive approach last night on the rapid fire shouting match collaboration of great minds that was held over at mgoblog and WLA, and I was roundly treated as though I had just asked why 2+2=4...  Basically, my question was the following:

When you have a strong group of players at defensive line (for our example, let's say that is Brandon Graham and Mike Martin next year) why would you only put three people down on the line and allow the offensive line to completely neutralize them with double teams if they so choose?

This was roundly answered with a smattering of "blitzing LBs are uncovered DUH" and "if they double two guys, we're getting to the QB you dolt" type of responses, something to be expected because I feel my point was somewhat misinterpreted or roundly ignored.  It should also be said that this was not the forum to ask a question that requires a detailed answer, so I'm sure there is a good answer to my question, and who knows, maybe it really is a stupid question, but nonetheless, I push on.

Jump on over toMaizenBrew for the rest of the analysis