I know Dale Brown at LSU used to run a defense he called 'ameba'. It started as a zone look and either stayed zone or morphed into man depending on which side the offense made the first pass. I believe what Pope was doing was something similar to that. I know sometimes he stayed zone the whole possession, but most times it changed to man. I wasn't sure what the trigger was? Some of you old time X and O guys weigh in.
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From The Murray Ledger & Times 3-26-2019:
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From The Murray Ledger & Times 3-26-2019:
Rupp’s hatred for the zone defense was legendary. It was bad for the game, he said. But in 1964, he used a scrambling 1-3-1 zone effectively to dismantle Tennessee 66-57. After the game, the Baron denied it was a zone. “That was no zone,” chided Rupp. “that was a stratified, transitional, hyperbolic paraboloid.”
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