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Benefits of Keeping D'Onofrio?

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Sincere question... From a complete business/football perspective (and removing all emotion), are there any benefits for keeping Coach D on staff?

From an outsiders perspective, it seems that Golden is sticking with Coach D primarily for emotional reasons (lifelong friendship). I cannot think of a single logical, reasonable, or business reason to stick with him.

Poor coach: Stats don't lie.

Poor recruiter: Cannot recall a single recruit ever mentioning having a great relationship with him.

Poor media skills: Horrible interviewee and not savvy with public relations.

Upset fan base: The fans want his head on a stick.

Huge recruiting class: The 2014 class is amazing. They need a coach/scheme to develop the talent or it will set this program back another 5 years.

Can anyone think of a non-emotional reason for Al Golden keeping him on staff? I expect my wife to make emotional decisions, not my head football coach.
 
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he is coaching to the level of talent and experience he has. he put temple kids into the nfl. he had a much better defense our first year. the guy has played it way too safe.
 
The issue is its not about firing D'Onforio

Its about firing him and Golden bringing in someone to change the philosophy which happens to be Golden's philosophy
 
LexCane55 said:
The issue is its not about firing D'Onforio

Its about firing him and Golden bringing in someone to change the philosophy which happens to be Golden's philosophy
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That's the whole thing right there. Dudes think simply firing Duh' will give us hope. Not the case. Need to completely overhaul Al Tin's defense.
 
when golden said "do you want me to go in there and bash those seniors after what they went through." he told me everything i suspected. they played a very safe defense because he didnt trust them. look at who he lets blitz, aqm, mccord, last night bush. he doesnt trust the upperclassmen and that hurt our philosophy. he is telling recruits he will be more aggressive.
 
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One, He's cheap (last I checked, UM is still private and mostly (except the Jackson Health System deal) non-taxpayer supported) and he is not a threat to overshadow the Head Coach, ala Musch(u)mp at Texas, Jimbo at FSU, heck Buddy Ryan and DIT-KAAA in Chicago. The days of stonefaced Landry are gone; emotion plays a huge part in todays game and I submit that even back in the day coach's had a lot of emotion involved in their decisions. Read Pete Gent's book (albeit it is quite exaggerated) to get a feel for what went on back in the day.

The rage these days is "coaching trees." Unfortunately, we may have some dead limbs.
 
CaneFan79 said:
One, He's cheap (last I checked, UM is still private and mostly (except the Jackson Health System deal) non-taxpayer supported) and he is not a threat to overshadow the Head Coach, ala Musch(u)mp at Texas, Jimbo at FSU, heck Buddy Ryan and DIT-KAAA in Chicago. The days of stonefaced Landry are gone; emotion plays a huge part in todays game and I submit that even back in the day coach's had a lot of emotion involved in their decisions. Read Pete Gent's book (albeit it is quite exaggerated) to get a feel for what went on back in the day.

The rage these days is "coaching trees." Unfortunately, we may have some dead limbs.
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Legit first post. Rep for the last line in particular.

Gotta say, I don't care if my DC overshadows my head corch.
 
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Penn State is a great job - Golden would have a top 5 recruiting class every year their. The Gameday experience is off the charts.
 
The program will reach new depths of depravity next year, hastening his and Al's departure?

Sometimes a quick death is much better than a slow but steady fall. Ask Imperial Japan.
 
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nycane said:
when golden said "do you want me to go in there and bash those seniors after what they went through." he told me everything i suspected. they played a very safe defense because he didnt trust them. look at who he lets blitz, aqm, mccord, last night bush. he doesnt trust the upperclassmen and that hurt our philosophy. he is telling recruits he will be more aggressive.
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I've been on Al's side from early on. Heck, he even use to return my emails, not lately though. This defense is for use against offenses like ours. Big play, can't move the sticks over and over again offenses. The design is to frustrate them into mistakes. See Vinny v PSU. You will not we gave Winston his biggest problems. By half time the FSU sideline was in meltdown. Unfortunately, they have good coaches and changed what they were doing. Put the chains on Rapist and started eating all that free land Al's D gives up. Their talent turned some of those into huge plays and we got crushed in 2 nd half. If our QB had managed a score on the opening drive of 2nd half, maybe different story. IF JJ had give Highsmith the ball 10 more times against PSU, we would have 6 NCs, but he kept having Vinny wing it when we got close.

The big problem is the other teams we play are not FSU and are happy as pigs in sh... to take 8 yards all day long. Al's D probably kicks our O rear in practice regularly. If we had a great offense that use ball control this defense would be more effective. But we don't.
 
Many of our garbage fans will save money from not buying season tickets?
 
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The only benefit I see is keeping the coaching staff together . A new coach would for sure change the terminology and scheme thus setting us back a year, not saying it's a bad thing. We also no for sure coach D will not leave this team or Al, mainly because he would not get any other coaching offers.
 
LexCane55 said:
The issue is its not about firing D'Onforio

Its about firing him and Golden bringing in someone to change the philosophy which happens to be Golden's philosophy
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this

even if he is fired he has to 1) bring in someone who has a different scheme and 2) actually implement it
 
No one wants to hear this but he did get the defense to play well last night even with scrubs until the point where they started feeling the toll of the offense hanging them out to dry.
 
DJWilliams55 said:
No one wants to hear this but he did get the defense to play well last night even with scrubs until the point where they started feeling the toll of the offense hanging them out to dry.
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story of the season. we are one of the worst teams in time of possession and no one wants to look at that statistic.
 
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