Posted by poncho0091 on 12/1/2012 2:25:00 PM (view original):
Another good time to do this is if you have a lot of players leaving in one season or over the course of 2 seasons. The players leaving will already have higher IQ's in what you run, so you can transition your practice minutes to the other IQ in the meantime. Then when you bring in new recruits, they will be practicing the new defense from the beginning.
I can't disagree with this more. I switched offenses during a season when I had a lot of upperclassmen and I have a sinking feeling it may have cost me a national championship (I lost to the eventual champs in OT in the elite 8, thought we were 2 best teams left)
If you like your players, it's worth it to try to get as many to A+ and A IQ as possible instead of having them top out at B+/A- .. and I say that having practiced 25 min in both O/D the seasons before.