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Golden has "utmost confidence" in defensive scheme

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Deon Bush needs to be starting at S, and would be real close to giving R. Jenkins a chance to start next to him. I was all about saying VT is what he is and he will be a steadying influence in the back end of the defense, but he was awful yesterday, it may be time to complete the youth movement.
 
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That first game is always a shake-out.

Look at how other teams (except Alabama) did yesterday against creampuffs. They didn't look so good either.

We're working on it. They'll be burning through some film this week.

Thank you Morris.
 
Problem2 said:
Golden: "I have the utmost confidence in how we're running our defense."

A day after his team won their season opener at Boston College despite giving up 10 acres worth of yards to the Eagles, UM coach Al Golden defended defensive coordinator and close friend Mark D'Onofrio while addressing other issues.

Ultimately, Golden said the reason Boston College was able to put 441 yards passing on Miami was because there were a lot of blown assignments and poor communication between players, not what D'Onofrio was calling.

"We had some blown assignments that just led to wide open receivers. It's as simple as that," Golden said. "There are no excuses here. We have to do a better job coaching it. The kids have to do a better job executing it. Give Doug Martin and the BC offense credit. They really did a good job scheme wise and ran off the first 16 plays without us really distorting that all all.

"But then at the same time I want to give our staff credit for responding. Between play 16 and play 61 they didn't score at all. Hopefully, we can settle down and eliminate some of those mental errors and some of the guys will do a better job with communication..."

Golden was asked if he believes in the scheme D'Onofrio employed. It seemed to me -- and maybe the rest of the world -- the Hurricanes were sitting back in zone coverage while rushing just three or four linemen each play and not getting to BC quarterback Chris Rettig. D'Onofrio's scheme wasn't the problem, Golden said.

"Do I believe in it?," Golden said almost miffed at the question. "I know where the question is going. I will just tell you all the explosive plays basically came on blown assignments in man-to-man coverage. Everybody wants us to do this and do that. The bottomline is we have to execute what's called and clearly I have the utmost confidence -- not just confidence -- the utmost confidence in how we're running our defense."
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There is definitely one positive stat from the defense on Saturday, they forced 3 turnovers and scored a defensive TD. That is something that we have not done a lot of in the last several years.
 
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