A note about the complaints about kids not liking D'Onofrio-

[Picksix]

How come the "nose to the grindstone" Temple kids had no problem playing for D?

They may have had a problem playing for him.

Sure doesn't look like the players at Temple had a problem with coach D. This player says coach D coaches them hard and makes sure they know everything he knows. I just find it hard to believe that coach D is all the sudden a bad DC with a malicious attitude right around the time of a culture change here at Miami with players who are used to being coddled. No more coddling! Bust your *** or kick rocks!

[video=youtube;34qMEaDSSpw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34qMEaDSSpw[/video]

 

[bomb]

Yes, Coach D's relationship was so disfunctional at Temple that the AD and President who witnessed him day in and day out for years, people who knew him so well it went beyond the need for an interview, offered him the HC job when Golden left.

Sometimes you have to take a step back and just use common sense.

All this coach D stuff seems like the usual annual Internet rumor bull****. And I'm sure a lot of the whiny posts are by cousins and classmates of the kids on the team who aren't getting it. I'll say it again. The best players, the players the staff can trust... Play. Want to get some run? WORK HARDER. BE BETTER. And STFU while you're at it.

 

[LMCane]

paging Larry Coker to the white courtesy phone..

Hypothetical: what if D'Onofrio was a laid back coach and all the guys loved to play for him, but the results were the same?

All of a sudden the rhetoric becomes, "we need a fiery coach like Bo Pellini or Jim Leavitt."

Just win.

 

[DeadPoets]

How come the "nose to the grindstone" Temple kids had no problem playing for D?

They may have had a problem playing for him.

Sure doesn't look like the players at Temple had a problem with coach D. This player says coach D coaches them hard and makes sure they know everything he knows. I just find it hard to believe that coach D is all the sudden a bad DC with a malicious attitude right around the time of a culture change here at Miami with players who are used to being coddled. No more coddling! Bust your *** or kick rocks!

[video=youtube;34qMEaDSSpw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34qMEaDSSpw[/video]

Who was their strength coach? That video got me hype for some foozball - ****!

 

[wushah]

I never really take the kids words for it anyway. They don't really know anything about anything. "Oh I'm so much better than player x, but he starts over me! Coach is biased and plays favorites" "Oh Coach is a douche. He yells a lot yadda yadda".

Whatever man, those kids have no perspective. They're 18-22 year olds and in many cases for a variety of reasons, haven't had too much experience with a strong male disciplinarian in a position of authority. That's just the God's honest truth.

More importantly though, and the point that bomb makes that is strongest, imho, is that these coaches have a job to do. The coach that purposely sits the better player for the worse player is the coach without a job at the end of the year. It defies all logic. And here's the funny part. If you have followed this team over the last ten years or so, you've probably realized by now that this same story appears every friggen year. Someone has the same template saved up somewhere and just replaces the coach and player names.

It's all bull****.

This. Right. Here.

 

[Duval904]

one thing about that video is that you can hear the same golden type language coming from them kids and ours

 

[Consigliere]

Good Coach and D'Nof do not belong in the same sentence, his defense was 116 out of 120 teams in FBS.

It's one thing not to like a coach, but you can still not like the coach and respect him, he has done little in the last two years to earn their respect.

Please cut the bull **** about the yards. Yes it sucks, but don't you care about points? Yards don't equal points, they could lead to points but there is no number of yards that equal points.

Shouldn't you lead the points (Scoring) argument first. Side note, last year we were 17/18 in scoring defense.

Not that I am his biggest fan but still.

 

[BrazilCane]

Yes, Coach D's relationship was so disfunctional at Temple that the AD and President who witnessed him day in and day out for years, people who knew him so well it went beyond the need for an interview, offered him the HC job when Golden left.

Sometimes you have to take a step back and just use common sense.

All this coach D stuff seems like the usual annual Internet rumor bull****. And I'm sure a lot of the whiny posts are by cousins and classmates of the kids on the team who aren't getting it. I'll say it again. The best players, the players the staff can trust... Play. Want to get some run? WORK HARDER. BE BETTER. And STFU while you're at it.

This.

 

[Canesfan1899]

Isn't this what we all clamored for? A staff that would come in and kick everyone in the *** at all costs?

Isn't that what we desperately needed as an entire organization?

Coaches will ultimately have to succeed on the field though.

Absofreaknlutely.

 

[Notsince1985]

I find the idea of respect funny, The overall lack of respect from today's youth is very wide spread, most respect nothing, because they were coddled and given everything.

As a college professor, I strongly approve this message.

 

[ghost2]

I find the idea of respect funny, The overall lack of respect from today's youth is very wide spread, most respect nothing, because they were coddled and given everything.

As a college professor, I strongly approve this message.

me too.

 

[numerounocane]

Hypothetical: what if D'Onofrio was a laid back coach and all the guys loved to play for him, but the results were the same?

All of a sudden the rhetoric becomes, "we need a fiery coach like Bo Pellini or Jim Leavitt."

Just win.

Bingo. Right on.

 

[DaU83]

Hypothetical: what if D'Onofrio was a laid back coach and all the guys loved to play for him, but the results were the same?

All of a sudden the rhetoric becomes, "we need a fiery coach like Bo Pellini or Jim Leavitt."

Just win.

if things aren't going well, you always want the opposite of what you have.

 

[4Canes]

and some of these folks are still clamoring for Mike Leach, ironic, no?

 

[GhostofVenice01]

Hypothetical: what if D'Onofrio was a laid back coach and all the guys loved to play for him, but the results were the same?

All of a sudden the rhetoric becomes, "we need a fiery coach like Bo Pellini or Jim Leavitt."

Just win.

Bingo. Right on.

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Houtxcane]

The best educators are the very same way. Demanding as all ****.

Unfortunately, the "No Child Left Behind" program (an extension of the participation ribbons phenomenon) put so many unqualified students in higher education. One cannot be tough even if they wanted to, unless if you don't care to fail 50% of the class. The honest truth is some should really been left behind. For this, I support the coaches who are tough on these kids, perhaps for the first time in their lives. They need to understand that there is life beyond college football. Hopefully what they will learn with these tough disciplinarians would prepare them to be a successful adult (and today's kids truly need it).

 

[Dwinstitles]

It's truly amazing to me that people aren't able to see the grey area that exists here.

What do you expect from Miami Hurricane fans for the most part?

It is all or nothing for many in Hurricane nation, that is the way it is.

Let's not forget that we have fans that still defend RS.

something is off if anyone defends RS at this point. The FSU game sealed his fate for me, and I gave him plenty of chances.

 

[Notsince1985]

The best educators are the very same way. Demanding as all ****.

Unfortunately, the "No Child Left Behind" program (an extension of the participation ribbons phenomenon) put so many unqualified students in higher education. One cannot be tough even if they wanted to, unless if you don't care to fail 50% of the class. The honest truth is some should really been left behind. For this, I support the coaches who are tough on these kids, perhaps for the first time in their lives. They need to understand that there is life beyond college football. Hopefully what they will learn with these tough disciplinarians would prepare them to be a successful adult (and today's kids truly need it).

Not to mention that some states (Georgia for instance, where I teach) ties funding to the school to the school's overall "Drop, Withdraw, Fail" rate, which is absurd.

 

[Houtxcane]

The best educators are the very same way. Demanding as all ****.

Unfortunately, the "No Child Left Behind" program (an extension of the participation ribbons phenomenon) put so many unqualified students in higher education. One cannot be tough even if they wanted to, unless if you don't care to fail 50% of the class. The honest truth is some should really been left behind. For this, I support the coaches who are tough on these kids, perhaps for the first time in their lives. They need to understand that there is life beyond college football. Hopefully what they will learn with these tough disciplinarians would prepare them to be a successful adult (and today's kids truly need it).

Not to mention that some states (Georgia for instance, where I teach) ties funding to the school to the school's overall "Drop, Withdraw, Fail" rate, which is absurd.

I know exactly what you mean. Sigh.

 

[SPFRcane]

U do not have to be a **** to get kids to fear u or buy in to your system. Respect needs to be earned... Calling kids out their names to make to make them fear is old school and not going to work now a days, the days of saying anything you want to a kid is over. And if my son played for a coach who treated him in this manner I or any parent would have a problem. Their are lots of ways to coach and win on any level.ie Tony Dungy