How did the D get in this state? Why?

[SmokeyRone]

The defensive is terrible. This doesn't happen overnight, and saying "we are young" demands an answer like "Why are we young?".


Just wanted to see your take on how and why specifically, in terms of personnel. Discussions about the competancy of D'Onofrio is another matter, I want to hear why the 11 (and 2 deep) make up a terrible defense, maybe the worst I have ever seen

 

[drifters1234]

Shannon's horrific recruiting.

 

[BornAcaneDieAcane]

The defensive is terrible. This doesn't happen overnight, and saying "we are young" demands an answer like "Why are we young?".


Just wanted to see your take on how and why specifically, in terms of personnel. Discussions about the competancy of D'Onofrio is another matter, I want to hear why the 11 (and 2 deep) make up a terrible defense, maybe the worst I have ever seen

I think D'onofrio's scheme doesn't work with the personnel we have. I think the type of players we have need to attack. they need to make this an aggressive defensive like Miami has always been. Even if we give up big plays here and there, let the young guys gain experience and learn and play ball they way they know how. But fundamentals and scheme are the problem. The coaches need to go back to the drawing board and start over.

 

[AL CANE]

The defensive is terrible. This doesn't happen overnight, and saying "we are young" demands an answer like "Why are we young?".


Just wanted to see your take on how and why specifically, in terms of personnel. Discussions about the competancy of D'Onofrio is another matter, I want to hear why the 11 (and 2 deep) make up a terrible defense, maybe the worst I have ever seen

I think D'onofrio's scheme doesn't work with the personnel we have. I think the type of players we have need to attack. they need to make this an aggressive defensive like Miami has always been. Even if we give up big plays here and there, let the young guys gain experience and learn and play ball they way they know how. But fundamentals and scheme are the problem. The coaches need to go back to the drawing board and start over.

It's inexcusable, regardless of youth, that we could not stop the option and zone read. It's basic college football at its finest and we had zero clue how to defend it today. We knew they would run this and we had no answer for it. Based on that alone Onofrio has no business coaching this defense.

 

[Pennmed Canefan]

Combination of calamities. Shannon left the team with no mid-level players. Thus the personnel is bad old guys and freshmen. That's a problem for anybody. Now, relative to last year, I think D'Onofrio got excited. The young guys gave him better athletes and guys in theory had a year under their belt. Thus he thought that he could diversify on defense. The problem is that guys aren't ready and are clueless. He has compounded this by trying to play a hundred guys as (1) they build depth, and (2) they try to figure out who can play. Thus a guy who is clueless and trying to figure it out now has half the plays to do so.

It's a pretty devastating combination. We're talking about bad players that the coaches have overextended into confusion. The player situation won't change. They might get better but they aren't changing altogether obviously. I think the only thing to do is scale back a ton, identify a couple of things to do, and work on doing them well. We can't come into a game with 15 different things to do. It's got to be basic as **** and taught to approach every single thing you've seen the offense do. Build from there.

 

[PAPACANE5X]

The defensive is terrible. This doesn't happen overnight, and saying "we are young" demands an answer like "Why are we young?".


Just wanted to see your take on how and why specifically, in terms of personnel. Discussions about the competancy of D'Onofrio is another matter, I want to hear why the 11 (and 2 deep) make up a terrible defense, maybe the worst I have ever seen

Coker followed by Randy Shannon and George W Bush(why not it works for Obama)