I've asked this 8 million times, and i never get an answer.
Why were D'Onofrio and Golden able to put out good defenses at temple? Caveat: you can't give answers that have no logic like "the competition was worse"... while i realize that to be true, he was playing with talent relative to the competition. he wasn't doing it with Bama's recruiting classes.
the answer is that they DIDN'T - depending on what you define as good (which I'm sure you will tailor to fit their 1 decent season at temple)
F.A.G. basically has 2 mythical good defenses in his whole coaching career:
2004 - UVA (gave up 4.9 yards per play!)
2010 - Temple (gave up 4.6 yards per play)
for comparison, one of our worst defenses in the Shancoker era was the 2004 defense that lost a boat load of starters from the 2003 squad. that team gave up 4.6 yards per play. i thought we sucked on defense that year but now that is the benchmark of a good F.A.G. defense
you are drooling ******
so you didn't answer the question.. thanks for playing. anyone?
are you seriously going to ignore the facts? the answer to your dumbass question is that their 1 or 2 year mythical awesome defenses were just that: MYTHS.
they were not great defenses. they were OK relative to the talent they were playing. for Miami standards they were not good as I already pointed out you ***cing ******