From 1989-1999 Al Groh worked as a DC or Linebackers coach in the NFL under Bill Parcells with the Giants and Jets and under Bill Belichick with the Browns. In 2000, he took the head coaching position at Virginia. Al Golden was his DC from 2001-2005. The defense that Miami ran under Golden and Mark D’Onofrio was the Parcells 3-4. Unfortunately by the time Al Golden took the UM head coaching job, that defense was outdated and past it’s prime. If you compare Belichick’s defenses with the Browns and early years with the Patriots, they look almost nothing like they do now. So not only were Golden and D’Onofrio running a scheme that didn’t fit the players at Miami, it was an outdated scheme that had long ago run it’s course. It was designed to stop 1980’s offenses and Golden was trying to use it in 2014.