He couldn’t separate from Denofrio BECAUSE IT WAS HIS DEFENSE!! It was in his dna and who he was. If he separates from that D he’s separating from his core and saying everything he’s been preaching / defending was wrong. Even though us fans had been saying this for years. Fact is he sucked as a coach and that’s why his *** hasn’t been one sense. He finally got a dc job in 22.
Was he ? He took so many non UM quality players that when he hits on two folks talk like he was Butch Davis lol. He couldn’t land quality guys enough so he had to hit the dumpster and dig for scraps. So he‘d find a tv that still works occasionally versus the 100’s of worthless takes. For every under the radar hit he had an ungodly amount of misses. He was a dumpster diver because he couldn’t recruit. His entire coaching career was fugazi just like it was at temple. He had Big East players playing against MAC players lol. And was still meh.
There’s programs with far less “ talented players “ developing much better players. Coaching and developing has been the biggest issue since the good days.
Yeah we can disagree. I'm not saying the 3-4 defense isn't Golden's, but just because of that, Dono was the DC. He called the plays. Their is a reason Golden was a HC at Temple and not Dono, their is a reason Golden was a HC at Miami and not Dono, their is a reason Golden was an NFL assistant, and not begging for jobs like Dono post Miami. Their is a reason Golden is the DC at Notre Dame now.
He’s a terrible head coach is what we know. Hence why ZERO programs have sniffed around him as a HC after his time here.
Well for sure doing things 20 yds off the ball on the goal line is questionable
Lol you can say this about any coach my guy. And some of those dudes were good evals because they were 2 stars that started/helped the team and some even got drafted and played in the league for a while. Lot of those dudes got in trouble and some of them injured. Can’t blame him for those.
Right. I hear they have these things called “ head sets “, you can actually talk to other coaches on them. Maybe Al the great head coach hit the button and goes “ hey mark , how about we being our safeties out of the back of the end zone , we’re playing GT, they’ll likely run”. You know why he didn’t ? Because it was his defense / scheme and Mark was doing what he wanted. He sat in those defensive meetings.
He had to depend on reaches because he sucked. And he missed on a god awful amount. For every Njoku was a crap load of Terrys , J Carter‘s, Dillard , J O’Donnell etc. The guy was so bad he had to be begged to take Perryman. One of our better players the last decade. Only because he wasn’t 6’4. He was clueless.
Not at a school like Miami. Majority of those names shouldn’t have an offer from a UM. It’s actually an indictment that we even called those type kids and had conversations with them lol. Coaches have some misses or misevaluations but when your are in the dollar bin way too much those chance's shoot through the roof. We were depending on reaches to survive. That’s unbelievable to type as a UM fan of over 35 plus years.
Oh yeah, no doubt! But I give him props for doing his own evals. He lived and died with the way he wanted to do things
He took over a terrible Temple program. They were winless had zero support.
I’ve been consistent in using NFL numbers. Those numbers help tell the story because they take my opinion and your opinion out of it.
The defense that Mark ran was 100% Al Golden's defensive scheme. Al was an Al Groh defensive disciple .... Groh got fired from his HC job and ended up as the DC at Ga Tech and Paul Johnson had to fire him because of it ... Johnson commented "Al has a defensive scheme that only works in his head ... he can't get it to work on the field". Golden ... same. Didn't matter who he hired as DC they would have been forced to run that same "bend don't break" scheme ... giving a 15 yard cushion to WR's (don't even mention QB's). Never forget one goal line stand in which he had a 4 man front and the other 7 guys at THE BACK of the end zone (guess he didn't want them to get hurt hitting the wall after scoring).
