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Arizona football: Rich Rodriguez responds to criticism of 3-3-5 defense

After giving up 111 points in their first two Pac-12 games of 2015, the Arizona Wildcats defense, and in particular, Jeff Casteel's 3-3-5 scheme, has come under a bit of fire.

Rich Rodriguez, who has final say on whether or not the 3-3-5 actually gets used, responded to the criticism on Monday in the only way that he could.

"I see a lot of criticism of it. I think it's almost natural and it's okay. I guess you could look at it in a couple different ways. When people complain about your schemes, or something like that, and they're sitting in the stands, and some of them have never played before or coached before, but you can also look at it like at least they care.