Possible New Options for DC

[The Franchise]

Forget Muschamp....he isn't coming here if he gets canned at u*** as he will have a nice payout to sit on his ***.
A payout greater than what he would make as a DC here, and when he does return to coaching, it will be as a
DC under Saban (when Kirby Smart moves on) or somewhere else that pays well.

Stanford seems to run a nice multiple-front defense, perhaps someone from that staff.
One of their LB coaches (D. Kotulski) has had DC experience in the past at Bucknell and Lehigh,
so perhaps he may know Golden from his time at Temple (I think Golden hired a LB coach from
Kotulski's staff at one point).

Carlos, do you really see the benefit in scapegoating a guy who is running Golden's D? How much of that scapegoating have we seen over the past 15 years at UM, and how many times has it worked? How often has it worked anywhere? I know that the likely move is for D'Onofrio to get greased, but I have no confidence that that sort of move results in the all encompassing change needed. There's a pattern of Al flopping in important games going back to Temple.

I can't dispute your points, Chise.
It is what it is, and perhaps this is my way of dealing with this clusterphk.
One can only hope that in the process of scapegoating his buddy, he brings in someone who he will allow to
run that side of the ball in his way. Scapegoat and change instead of hope and change. LOL.
But, seriously, his big-game results are alarming.

When you consistently show a pattern of flopping in big games there is something fundamentally wrong with your overall approach. And when you get progressively worse over the course of the season that's another telling sign that you're doing something fundamentally wrong. There are deeper problems than a bad DC.

Recognizing the problem and addressing it is a step in the right direction. We need wholesale changes on the defensive staff.

Patrick would be nice at the DLine...as far as coordinator, anyone that implements a 1 gap system is good with me. Man, I'd love Jeremy Pruit at this point. Not sure why you'd want London, doesn't he come from the same Al Groh school as Golden?

I never mentioned London. The only way any of this would change is for Golden to hire a guy with a great pedigree and just leave the defense completely in his hands. So, he'd have to fire his best friend/Asst. HC/co-architect of HIS defense and change his philosophy and what he believes in as a HC. I guess miracles can happen.

 

[LA\^/]

It's not that simple... D'nofrio is running Al Golden's scheme. The change has to start from the top if we wanna see a change. Al Golden needs to realize whatever the **** he's running now isn't gonna work against ACC teams. It might of worked in those **** schools he played against in Temple, but clearly in the ACC (which is not even that good of a conference to begin with) offenses like Wake Forest and VT destroy us by picking apart the enormous holes in our zone.

Al Golden is very meticulous on what players he recruits for his system. So changing the system now would affect the production of the players he recruited because all of a sudden they will be playing in a system different than when they were recruited. Because of that i just don't see Al Golden changing defenses at least for another 2 years.

 

[MedleyCane]

Not sure if you guys follow billy corben on twitter. But earlier today he tweeted out a screen shot of D'onofrio Facebook page showing former D-coor/asst. head coach at Miami. Just now corben tweeted out the same pic, however, the page updated and corrected. Perhaps D'onofrio jumped the gun with the announcement?

Do you believe in BigFoot?

 

[kanin81]

Looks like someone already updated his wikipedia page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_D'Onofrio

 

[OBLIVION]

**** it. I'm puttin' my name in the hat.

 

[561Cane]

Coach D is not going anywhere while Golden is our HC....useless banter

Honestly at this point id rather have anybody coaching our pathetic D except Dorito but feel free to put in some options.

 

[Dees Brown]

It's not that simple... D'nofrio is running Al Golden's scheme. The change has to start from the top if we wanna see a change. Al Golden needs to realize whatever the **** he's running now isn't gonna work against ACC teams. It might of worked in those **** schools he played against in Temple, but clearly in the ACC (which is not even that good of a conference to begin with) offenses like Wake Forest and VT destroy us by picking apart the enormous holes in our zone.

Al Golden is very meticulous on what players he recruits for his system. So changing the system now would affect the production of the players he recruited because all of a sudden they will be playing in a system different than when they were recruited. Because of that i just don't see Al Golden changing defenses at least for another 2 years.

Or could he hire somebody that runs a similar scheme but more aggressive. Someone from the staff of stanford or Michigan state. So you dont necessary have to re-recruit different players