That being said, I was wondering – and maybe you experts can tell me – with 3-seconds left, would a semi-full court press would be OK to delay them from bring the ball down the court a tad and then let them make an umncontested shot?

Tonight’s MBB will be streamed on Big West TV and will be streamed for all conference games that is not being picked up by a major sports network.
http://www.bigwest.org/story.asp?story_id=16606

otherwise time would run off the clock if the ball bounced around several times on the rim and then went in.

Radio: 1420 AM
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Gonna be a tough game. Cal Poly isn’t a good team, but they always play tough in San Luis Obispo.

Looks good on paper, Yap would be a monster LB, but the big issue is that Yap hasn’t played a down as a MLB in his college career (high school?). Physically, he would be ok, but he would have an extremely steep learning curve on MLB assignments, reads, and calling the adjustments/audibles.

As a DE, their primary duties are very basic… rush the passer and maintain gap responsibility vs the run. MLBs have to read the offensive formations, call adjustments, read the OLine post snap, maintain gap responsibility if run or drop to coverage if a pass (pickup man assignment or drop to zone).

I just have a hard time seeing Yap being able to successfully retreating to cover the middle zone after a play fake. Opposing teams could pick apart an inexperienced MLb Yap in coverage.

I have been in favor of Yap moving to rush end/OLB in the 3-4 and using Kennedy/Rasmussen/Samia as the down linemen. UH has options/combinations available with the 3-4 setup with Yap, Castro and the new recruits coming in for the rush end/OLB spot.

The issues UH had under TK’s 3 man fronts (when he used it) was that Yap and Woodard were both down linemen and they are nowhere big enough to bookend a 3 down look.