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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5339815, member: 71"] Each of the past few years roughly half of our starting defense (~90% this year) are players new to the program. It will take some time for understanding of assignments, communication and trust of other players to maintain their assignments to reach the level where the defense will be as competitive as we want. One thing we're going to need to start doing in order to get where we want to be is bringing in players to develop through the system and augment this with a starter or two from the portal. Turning over half of your defense from year to year can only be successful if the new starters were already in the system. If they are for the most part portal additions there will be a learning curve that spills into the season. [/QUOTE]