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Who is your favorite Hurricanes Defensive Coordinator?

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With all the talk lately about coach Donofrio and his scheme, I started thinking about all our past DC's in the modern era and the guy who always stood out to me was Sonny Lubbick. To me, Lubbick's defenses at UM are the perfect embodiment of classic modern era UM defense. A suffocating and attacking 4-3 man oriented D that was fast, physical and aggressive.


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Honestly, I only remember from Schiano? (late 90's) on.. I vote goes to Randy (I know that name drives some of you crazy). Aside from his horrible tenure as HC, RS was a great DC and really took advantage of SFLA speed. He mixed in up with blitzes and always had ball-hawking safetys and attacking LB's. When he wasnt trying to make a name for himself, Randy was great! I remember him putting Antrelle Rolle in as a sophomore and making him blitz FSU off the edge all game long. The Noles had no answer for it.

Towards the end, he basically ran a Man Cover 2, and never switched it up...

When he was on his game, we continually had the best D in the nation!
 
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KITmutha****inRAMSEY said:
Cityboy4life82 said:
I would go with Randy Shannon. UM had the best defense the 6 years he was DC.
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and it was still pretty horrible. Couldn't stop the run EVER.
Only reason he was relatively successful is because those guys were ball hawks and created TONS of turnovers.
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You have a bad memory are defense during those six years where as good as any. So why do you say we were pretty horrible?
 
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Cityboy4life82 said:
KITmutha****inRAMSEY said:
Cityboy4life82 said:
I would go with Randy Shannon. UM had the best defense the 6 years he was DC.
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and it was still pretty horrible. Couldn't stop the run EVER.
Only reason he was relatively successful is because those guys were ball hawks and created TONS of turnovers.
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You have a bad memory are defense during those six years where as good as any. So why do you say we were pretty horrible?
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We scored in like a minute twenty during those years on average...forcing teams to play catch up most of the time. Through the air...we had tremendous ability to create takeaways. Couldn't stop the run to save our lives.

We have ALWAYS been gashed by between the tackles runners and running QB's...remember that?
 
Sonny was a great coach here. Dominant defenses. Of course, having Cortez, Russell Maryland, and Jesse Armstead doesn't hurt.
 
Shannon may have not been a good HC, but he was a **** good DC. Most of our defenses under him were so dominant. Granted, he had GREAT athletes to run it.
 
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Jimmy Johnson implemented the now famous Miami 40 slide/over defense. The scheme was based upon the fixing everything towards the sidelines, known commonly as "wrong arm technique or bounce technique." The defensive line main purpose was to work hard for penetration on the snap and get up field. This allowed the linebackers to scrap over the top and chase down everything laterally. It also allowed the secondary to play the cut back lanes. Under Johnson Miami primarily played cover 2 zone. Cover 2 was Miami's bread and butter coverage until around 1987. Johnson implemented more quarter coverage around that timeframe, and it became the secret coverage of the Miami defense. Johnson was never a biltz guy. He preferred keeping everything in front of the front seven. In fact I can only recall one game where Miami broke from its normal cover 2 and 4 coverages. Against the noles in '88, Johnson turned the dogs loose, and that formulated the blueprint for the Sonny Lubick style of Miami defense to come.
 
Jimmy Johnson implemented the now famous Miami 40 slide/over defense. The scheme was based upon the fixing everything towards the sidelines, known commonly as "wrong arm technique or bounce technique." The defensive line main purpose was to work hard for penetration on the snap and get up field. This allowed the linebackers to scrap over the top and chase down everything laterally. It also allowed the secondary to play the cut back lanes. Under Johnson Miami primarily played cover 2 zone. Cover 2 was Miami's bread and butter coverage until around 1987. Johnson implemented more quarter coverage around that timeframe, and it became the secret coverage of the Miami defense. Johnson was never a biltz guy. He preferred keeping everything in front of the front seven. In fact I can only recall one game where Miami broke from its normal cover 2 and 4 coverages. Against the noles in '88, Johnson turned the dogs loose, and that formulated the blueprint for the Sonny Lubick style of Miami defense to come.
 
I know he was only here one season, but I thought Bill Young did a very good job here in 2008. Not saying he's my favorite or he was one of our best DC's but I liked the way he ran our defense. Always gave the offense different looks meant to confuse the QB and we were very aggressive that season.

Remember the VT game in 2008? We shut them down. Even the UF game early in the season was very close until the 4th quarter. We were giving Tebow fits all game.

John Lovett was also undervalued here IMO.
 
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