Barry Jackson on D'Onofrio

[Republicane]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

Keep fighting the good fight. These losers are focusing on an isolated incident where the defense didn't play well (which was 0% the coaches fault) and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then. These mopes are too retarded to recognize the defensive genius staring them right in their fat faces.

 

[Cribby]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

Keep fighting the good fight. These losers are focusing on an isolated incident where the defense didn't play well (which was 0% the coaches fault) and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then. These mopes are too retarded to recognize the defensive genius staring them right in their fat faces.

My sarcasm meter just went off

 

[lauderdaleballer]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

Keep fighting the good fight. These losers are focusing on an isolated incident where the defense didn't play well (which was 0% the coaches fault) and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then. These mopes are too retarded to recognize the defensive genius staring them right in their fat faces.

Haha I see what you did there! Hahaa I see you boy!

 

[FG305]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then.

Lmao....Name the great performances against GREAT OFFENSES.

 

[Dingaan1828]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then.

Lmao....Name the great performances against GREAT OFFENSES.

It....was...sarcasm.

 

[CaneAlmighty]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

Keep fighting the good fight. These losers are focusing on an isolated incident where the defense didn't play well (which was 0% the coaches fault) and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then. These mopes are too retarded to recognize the defensive genius staring them right in their fat faces.

Appreciate the sarcasm but not the straw man, which going by the likes of your post has successfully played on the ignorance of the peanut gallery.
No one has made the claim that this defense has been great or that these coaches are defensive geniuses.
The discord has really centered around the reasons why the defense has sucked and what a reasonable time frame to get things turnaround.

 

[Pennmed Canefan]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

Keep fighting the good fight. These losers are focusing on an isolated incident where the defense didn't play well (which was 0% the coaches fault) and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then. These mopes are too retarded to recognize the defensive genius staring them right in their fat faces.

Appreciate the sarcasm but not the straw man, which going by the likes of your post has successfully played on the ignorance of the peanut gallery.
No one has made the claim that this defense has been great or that these coaches are defensive geniuses.
The discord has really centered around the reasons why the defense has sucked and what a reasonable time frame to get things turnaround.

From this standpoint, it's a bad harbinger that these guys' first year was by far their best. They didn't have great talent then, either. That would suggest that year-by-year, teams have gotten accustomed to what we are doing and are implementing plans that beat it. They've adjusted, we haven't. Our talent last year wasn't too much worse than 2011 (if worse at all), it wasn't all that inexperienced, and yet the results were three times worse. It's alarming.

I think Golden really inherited a bad situation and I knew that it would take a lot of time to fix. But I really think that the expectation was to see some significant improvement in the latter half of last year--given more experience/familiarity of the older guys and (hopefully) being able to plug in some younger more talented guys. That didn't happen. Now I'm in a position where I'm just hoping, but my expectations are low. I just don't see what about a new bunch of young, hopefully-talented players is likely to take this defense from 80th (or whatever) to being really good absent a fundamental philosophical change. We'll hopefully improve, but our goal would be excellence and nobody can have that expectation based on what we've seen. Just hope.

 

[Bigtip]

So if everyone hates Dorito now, why did I have to defend myself for years on different forums every time I called out the pathetic scheme, playcalling and personnel usage? What made everyone change their minds?

We've been running the same crap with the same results since Golden was hired. Anyone remember the Maryland game where their supposed stud Fr QB O'Brien (now at powerhouse Catawba college) dinked and dunked his way down the field running a Gary Crowton offense that was canned that very same year? From the very start our D was getting picked apart by talentless teams coached by CFL caliber coaches (that's where Crowton went after Maryland fired him). I know we had some injuries and suspensions for that game but the signs were all there that we have a clueless coaching staff.

I remember the Maryland game. That was where 12 of our best players were suspended "thanks Radio!" which included our starting QB. I'm sure that had something to do with personnel groupings. Big changes weren't even made to the defense that year. What was ran last season was night and day different from season 1.

I remember that game too. Do you remember the first play of the game? Maryland called a timeout on offense!! Why might you ask? They saw our alignment!! Came out of the timeout and we are still lined up the same. Then they proceed to run a 40 yard play to open the game. Was that the players, or the coaches? Would any of the suspended players stop that?

Take out Spence, Vernon, Ray Ray and Forston from that already mediocre defense and I don't think it really matters.

How easily fans forget Williams was brought in from Wake to play on that defense so we had enough CB's to play the game.

The coaches get no pass from you ******* mopes.

Funny how people say Randy left no players for Golden, but Golden's best defense since being at Miami is with Randy's players and that's with players being suspended.

yep F.A.G.s best defense was with Randy's players AND it was still WORSE than randys WORST. marinate on that

I am not a Randy supporter at all. on the contrary. this fact highlights just how bad a staff we have right now

 

[Republicane]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

Keep fighting the good fight. These losers are focusing on an isolated incident where the defense didn't play well (which was 0% the coaches fault) and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then. These mopes are too retarded to recognize the defensive genius staring them right in their fat faces.

Appreciate the sarcasm but not the straw man, which going by the likes of your post has successfully played on the ignorance of the peanut gallery.
No one has made the claim that this defense has been great or that these coaches are defensive geniuses.
The discord has really centered around the reasons why the defense has sucked and what a reasonable time frame to get things turnaround.

I'm with you 100% 2020 is when the clock starts ticking on Golden. UM is going to be under the cloud of sanctions for three more years, so only one of these psychotic mope haters would say that any conclusions can be drawn prior to St. Albert of Golden's first senior class post-sanctions in 2020. He's going to need at least six more years to clean up the mess that rascal Lannard Shannon left. I just hope he doesn't leave for the Alabama job when his contract is up. Blake James needs to do the right thing and extend him through 2030 just to be on the safe side.

 

[Republicane]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then.

Lmao....Name the great performances against GREAT OFFENSES.

Oh great another hater blind with rage at the best thing to ever happen to this program. I'm sorry but I don't argue with fools and if you can't see the genius of Golden and D'Onofrio at work that just proves why I'm putting you on ignore.

 

[FG305]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then.

Lmao....Name the great performances against GREAT OFFENSES.

Oh great another hater blind with rage at the best thing to ever happen to this program. I'm sorry but I don't argue with fools and if you can't see the genius of Golden and D'Onofrio at work that just proves why I'm putting you on ignore.

 

[BigDikCane]

lol... some ppl just don't get it...

 

[Ibis4life]

Former UM assistant coach Don Soldinger said he sees nothing wrong with D’Onofrio’s system. What bothers him is this: “You don’t see guys swarming to the football. Guys are hesitant. Sometimes, they’re not taking the right angles. I question if the effort was there for all 11 guys. Al will fix it; I think the guy is special.”

But Soldinger said “criticism that will come after this year or next will be justified” because these are Golden’s players.


Solly has forgotten more football than all the whiny former players ever knew and I'd trust his judgement of the system over any of them.

 

[RiDLer80]

Former UM assistant coach Don Soldinger said he sees nothing wrong with D’Onofrio’s system. What bothers him is this: “You don’t see guys swarming to the football. Guys are hesitant. Sometimes, they’re not taking the right angles. I question if the effort was there for all 11 guys. Al will fix it; I think the guy is special.”

But Soldinger said “criticism that will come after this year or next will be justified” because these are Golden’s players.


Solly has forgotten more football than all the whiny former players ever knew and I'd trust his judgement of the system over any of them.

You think any of this has to do with players thinking too much and still not grasping the system after two years? Maybe this system is too complex for college athletes as Pete Carroll has stated before.

 

[BigDikCane]

2001 defense would be ranked 109th under these dumb *** coaches...

 

[DaU83]

Former UM assistant coach Don Soldinger said he sees nothing wrong with D’Onofrio’s system. What bothers him is this: “You don’t see guys swarming to the football. Guys are hesitant. Sometimes, they’re not taking the right angles. I question if the effort was there for all 11 guys. Al will fix it; I think the guy is special.”

But Soldinger said “criticism that will come after this year or next will be justified” because these are Golden’s players.


Solly has forgotten more football than all the whiny former players ever knew and I'd trust his judgement of the system over any of them.

You think any of this has to do with players thinking too much and still not grasping the system after two years? Maybe this system is too complex for college athletes as Pete Carroll has stated before.

was it too complex for the college athletes at temple?

 

[CaneAlmighty]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

Keep fighting the good fight. These losers are focusing on an isolated incident where the defense didn't play well (which was 0% the coaches fault) and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then. These mopes are too retarded to recognize the defensive genius staring them right in their fat faces.

Appreciate the sarcasm but not the straw man, which going by the likes of your post has successfully played on the ignorance of the peanut gallery.
No one has made the claim that this defense has been great or that these coaches are defensive geniuses.
The discord has really centered around the reasons why the defense has sucked and what a reasonable time frame to get things turnaround.

I'm with you 100% 2020 is when the clock starts ticking on Golden. UM is going to be under the cloud of sanctions for three more years, so only one of these psychotic mope haters would say that any conclusions can be drawn prior to St. Albert of Golden's first senior class post-sanctions in 2020. He's going to need at least six more years to clean up the mess that rascal Lannard Shannon left. I just hope he doesn't leave for the Alabama job when his contract is up. Blake James needs to do the right thing and extend him through 2030 just to be on the safe side.

 

[Pennmed Canefan]

Former UM assistant coach Don Soldinger said he sees nothing wrong with D’Onofrio’s system. What bothers him is this: “You don’t see guys swarming to the football. Guys are hesitant. Sometimes, they’re not taking the right angles. I question if the effort was there for all 11 guys. Al will fix it; I think the guy is special.”

But Soldinger said “criticism that will come after this year or next will be justified” because these are Golden’s players.


Solly has forgotten more football than all the whiny former players ever knew and I'd trust his judgement of the system over any of them.

You think any of this has to do with players thinking too much and still not grasping the system after two years? Maybe this system is too complex for college athletes as Pete Carroll has stated before.

was it too complex for the college athletes at temple?

How long will this be relevant? Coaches succeed one place and fail others all the time. I'm not sure why those guys did ok there and not here but I could propose a theory. Their system here has been based on the offense ******** up which is more likely when the caliber of player and coach is not as high--for instance at Temple.

 

[CaneAlmighty]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

Keep fighting the good fight. These losers are focusing on an isolated incident where the defense didn't play well (which was 0% the coaches fault) and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then. These mopes are too retarded to recognize the defensive genius staring them right in their fat faces.

Appreciate the sarcasm but not the straw man, which going by the likes of your post has successfully played on the ignorance of the peanut gallery.
No one has made the claim that this defense has been great or that these coaches are defensive geniuses.
The discord has really centered around the reasons why the defense has sucked and what a reasonable time frame to get things turnaround.

From this standpoint, it's a bad harbinger that these guys' first year was by far their best. They didn't have great talent then, either. That would suggest that year-by-year, teams have gotten accustomed to what we are doing and are implementing plans that beat it. They've adjusted, we haven't. Our talent last year wasn't too much worse than 2011 (if worse at all), it wasn't all that inexperienced, and yet the results were three times worse. It's alarming.

I think Golden really inherited a bad situation and I knew that it would take a lot of time to fix. But I really think that the expectation was to see some significant improvement in the latter half of last year--given more experience/familiarity of the older guys and (hopefully) being able to plug in some younger more talented guys. That didn't happen. Now I'm in a position where I'm just hoping, but my expectations are low. I just don't see what about a new bunch of young, hopefully-talented players is likely to take this defense from 80th (or whatever) to being really good absent a fundamental philosophical change. We'll hopefully improve, but our goal would be excellence and nobody can have that expectation based on what we've seen. Just hope.

You're choosing to draw definite conclusions from that past 3 seasons which have really been anything but normal.
You say their first year was their best and that teams have adjusted and our coaches haven't but how do you explain our record improving then? I mean if you say the 2011 team was the most talented Golden has had wouldn't you be impressed with him winning more games with less talented teams?
so you say we have nothing to base expectations of improvement except for hoping for it but this staff has shown the propensity to get more out of each team each year however ugly it has been. So I disagree on it being just "hope". It's not.
Add to that on paper all indications point to the roster shaping up the be the best it's been for Al in terms of depth and talent and we have real tangible information to expect improvement on all fronts.

 

[TreOFive]

All these arm chair DC's playing the results.
When you have Gaines making his first career start, Chick playing DE at 240 as a true freshman, Perryman playing as a true freshman, Mike Williams starting at CB, some no name scrubs at DT, and bunch of other jags you pretty much are vulnerable to anything. These coaches literally were coaching with one arm tied behind their backs due to all the last minute suspensions they had to deal with. The fact that they kept them to under 20 points is a miracle in its own right.
But like I said you guys play the results. You all were biching that they were giving the Wr's to much cushion but when they moved Mcgee up he gets burned over the top on a critical play late in the game.
But yeah you guys have it all figured out.

and are conveniently ignoring all the GREAT defensive performances this team has had against other GREAT offenses since then.

Lmao....Name the great performances against GREAT OFFENSES.