Paris 43 Brossart 28

Good points by all but I think a zone can be effective IF you use it the right way and capitalize on the oppenent's weakness. I have seen better teams use different types of zones to throw off another team and it has worked. Although I agree man defense puts more pressure on the offense, sometimes it doesn't hurt to try a specific zone to see how the team reacts to it. But apparently man defense did not work for Brossart (I was not at the game so I can't comment on it too much) so they could have seen IF a zone would have done better. As a coach you HAVE to be flexible and be willing to try something different if what you are doing is NOT working. Don't know if that was the case against Paris but from what someone else wrote, it sounds like the man defense was questionable. It's all water under the bridge now anyway.

Brossart did play man the whole game. I just wish they would have tried a zone. That was my only point. I was never saying man to man was a bad defense. I just think teams need to switch it up sometimes to throw the offense off.