Valdosta State Defense - "Code Red" and Teaching Philosophy

First of all, I would like to thank AFM for asking us to share a few thoughts with you about Valdosta State and some thoughts about our \"CODE RED DEFENSE\". On behalf of our Head Football Coach, David Dean. and the rest of our Staff, we would like to share some of those thoughts that we believe helped us get through some halftime deficits we experienced throughout the year all the way to last year’s National Championship. Every group, unit, team, or some affiliation of people must have a purpose. At Valdosta State, our defensive staff developed a Mission Statement for the 2007 season. The fact that we were a new staff, accompanied with the winning tradition at VSU, we wanted to give our players something with a new flavor and to strike interest in what we were going to do with them. We wanted them to buy into what we were about and also give them something to fall back on when times