Eric Winston On Miami Defense

[Canesfan1899]

Stop counter punching and go after the other team already, if you're going to give up 500 USA do it being aggressive, not passive.

 

[Loafers]

The problem with Golden's approach is that it's square peg into a round hole. He's trying to build a Bill Parcells 3-4 defense, with a huge front seven, when that doesn't play into this program's main advantage: access to obscenely athletic local recruits. I don't care how you do it, but a Miami defense should always be aggressive, it should feature a good amount of bump and run, and it should send athletic linebackers or OLB/DE hybrids flying into the quarterback's face when he's throwing the ball. No defense is perfect. But this is the approach that I think works with South Florida kids.

I like the part where you say "I don't care how you do it" (scheme), but "a Miami defense should be…"

That's how I see it. This isn't a scheme thing. It's a philosophical, "what kinda of style do we want" thing. 3-4, 4-3, variations, who gives a ****. I prefer a certain scheme that fits with a certain aggressive approach, but there are others here (Dynasty, for example) who don't like that scheme. What seemingly everyone agrees on is that we need to be dictating.

i asked the following question in the talent thread. do you believe we have the type of players on defense that can implement this philosophy? are gaines, cornelius and perryman quick and fast enough to be aggressive and dictatorial? are highsmith and rodgers quick and fast enough? does chickillo have this capacity?

Our current talent is going to struggle in whatever scheme they're put into. Our current talent shouldn't ever struggle as much as they did against VTech and Duke. The question is then "is there an end-game that justifies this period of transition?" I think the reward isn't nearly worth the cost. Ultimately, we're going to end up trying to make players into something they are not - even when we get consistently top talent. Sure, they'll be better than what we see now, but the point of coaching is to get the most out of the players, no?

Golden's defensive philosophy never maximizes the talent he has. His times at UVA and Temple prove that.

In 2011 Addazio iimproved the Temple defense from 16th in the country in points allowed to 3rd. All because Adazio implemented a more aggressive scheme.
In 2005 Golden had the 40th ranked scoring defense in the country at UVA, in 2006 after Golden left, UVA had the 22nd ranked scoring defense in the country again because a more aggressive defense was implemented.

Golden is a risk averse coach and average defensive coordinator at best. He will never fully maximize his players talents.

Not saying you are wrong but can we prove that Addazzio implemented a more aggressive scheme? Let us not forget that golden recruited well at temple and his first few years it was difficult to get anyone. He finally got the team some depth of talent when he left. Not saying Addazzio doesn't deserve some credit but are we sure that it wasn't just golden bringing better players and them getting older and had a better year?

 

[QuadCityCane]

I answered this yesterday. Addazzio then went 4-7 in his second year giving up 31 a game. Temple is now back to 1-9 and he is now at BC with the 71st ranked scoring defense. So he cant recruit or coach defense apparently.

*this is about the post above, just didnt want to lengthen with a long quote