Just a thought but has anyone ever thought that perhaps Mendoza's defense is great and will work perfectly but we just need some recruits to fill the position??? So then the choice becomes: 1) If you're Mendoza you could change the current defense back to what most of the players were used to (3-4) and watch it not work so well and then we all realize that it wasn't the coach but rather the lack of talent on hand.....or 2) If you're Mendoza you could wait on changing your whole defense around, fill those positions with the quality recruits you planned on bringing in anyway, and then have a good defense and good recruits....If you choose 1) There is absolutely NO guarantee that the defense would be any better (just as there isn't if you get rid of Mendoza and bring someone else in) and possibly be even worse...2) You have a few losing seasons until recruits get brought in and the defense could actually be successful. Mendoza is not the problem, the lack of talent with this defense IS. Wait, let him do his thing and recruit some guys to make it work.