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UM's Def staff should visit TCU & have **** Bumpas visit UM

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Paranos

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TCU's 13 year defensive Coordinator **** Bumpas retired last year, he co created TCU's 4-2-5 defense that for years was one of the best in the country. TCU's was\is adept at creating chaos and massive pressure while not giving up the big play while keeping the defense simple for players but complex to the opponents. An since Coach Diaz's defensive system is known for giving the big play, this could help solve that.

Diaz and staff should spend sometime this off season at TCU, then hire Bumpas as a consultant to help install some of the concepts into Diaz's base defense. With amount of HUNH\spread offenses now in the ACC this would a prudent move by Coach Richt and Miami. Also with ability for TCU's defensive line to play independent of the defensive backfield, which will allow Coach Kool even more autonomy with his D-line.

Here is an article link about TCU's defensive system.

How TCU's defense works, and how it stops up-tempo offenses - SBNation.com


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Recruiting speed, depth, and more talent in the secondary will do more for preventing the big play than visiting TCU or have this guy come to UM for a few days. That's the reality of where we're at right now.

Golden visiting the cowboys and Seahawks really worked last offseason didn't it?
 
Could be very beneficial now that we have a few spread up tempo offenses. Especially at VT because we have then every year
 
mjackson6 said:
Recruiting speed, depth, and more talent in the secondary will do more for preventing the big play than visiting TCU or have this guy come to UM for a few days. That's the reality of where we're at right now.

Golden visiting the cowboys and Seahawks really worked last offseason didn't it?
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It did work, It worked for UM.
 
I was reading some Longhorn boards and they all hate Diaz and are making fun of us for hiring him. Anyway TCU's defense hasn't seemed to be too good the last 5 years or so. They're having to win in shootouts. Sometimes scoring a gargantuan amount of points still doesn't work out for them. They lost a game in regulation in 2014 despite scoring 58 points.
 
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mjackson6 said:
Recruiting speed, depth, and more talent in the secondary will do more for preventing the big play than visiting TCU or have this guy come to UM for a few days. That's the reality of where we're at right now.

Golden visiting the cowboys and Seahawks really worked last offseason didn't it?
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Most of better staff's throughout college football visit each other to learn new idea's. If your scheme has flaw you don't ignore it, and hope having superior Jimmy's and Joe's will overshadow problems with X's and O's; rather than just fixing the scheme.

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Diaz should try and learn as much as he can from other coaches who run similar defense. First game he has that gives up huge yardage I can see the banners coming out in full swing
 
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Orangebowl said:
I was reading some Longhorn boards and they all hate Diaz and are making fun of us for hiring him. Anyway TCU's defense hasn't seemed to be too good the last 5 years or so. They're having to win in shootouts. Sometimes scoring a gargantuan amount of points still doesn't work out for them. They lost a game in regulation in 2014 despite scoring 58 points.
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That's due to TCU increase level of competition (Big 12). Simultaneously, benefits their recruiting efforts.
 
Why would you ever want to learn from a Big 12 Defensive coordinator...when they don't even play defense in the Big 12...
 
makes sense to me. A guy like Grace that can interchange between lb/db depending on the offense would be the perfect fit in such a system
 
OP makes a good point regarding Diaz and his D. While I didn't watch more than clips of some games that were linked here, there were stretches that looked eerily similar to D'no. That being said I seem to remember TCU giving up half a Hundy a couple times recently.

I think tho our best hope is the DL gets to the QB before the receiver sits in spot.
 
loreste said:
mjackson6 said:
Recruiting speed, depth, and more talent in the secondary will do more for preventing the big play than visiting TCU or have this guy come to UM for a few days. That's the reality of where we're at right now.

Golden visiting the cowboys and Seahawks really worked last offseason didn't it?
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It did work, It worked for UM.
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It worked for UM? We had the #15 defense in the country in 2014 (even though that ranking doesn't reflect what actually happened) and then fell to about #100 .
 
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Paranos said:
mjackson6 said:
Recruiting speed, depth, and more talent in the secondary will do more for preventing the big play than visiting TCU or have this guy come to UM for a few days. That's the reality of where we're at right now.

Golden visiting the cowboys and Seahawks really worked last offseason didn't it?
Click to expand...

Most of better staff's throughout college football visit each other to learn new idea's. If your scheme has flaw you don't ignore it, and hope having superior Jimmy's and Joe's will overshadow problems with X's and O's; rather than just fixing the scheme.

Go Canes
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I agree we need to address the flaw, but it needs to be done through recruiting more than anything. The reality is that Diaz isn't looking to adjust his scheme before he's even played a season with a new team. Right now they see the issue is a lack of depth and speed and just overall talent.

There is no "franchise" corner on the roster and no depth in the secondary in general. I like the concept, it's thinking outside the box, but for this scheme to work the key thing is elite speed. Which we lack, and the big play will be an issue until that is addressed, which needs to happen before the outside the box ideas are addressed.
 
Well in 2011 when Diaz first took over texas's defense it finished 12th in total defense with 22.2 ppg but it had defensive talent. Emmanuel Acho, Jackson Jeffcoat, Jordan Hicks, Kenny Vaccaro, and Kheeston Randall were on that defense, he also had talent at Mississippi state in 2010 he had Jonathan Banks, Fletcher Cox, Pernall McPhee, Charles Mitchell, Chris White, Nickoe Whitley, and KJ Wright and it only allowed 19.8 ppg but finished 55th in total defense. The one consistent thing between the two years when he had legitimate talent he finished top fifteen in rushing defense, 15th at Miss State and 6th at Texas with a low ppg rating. That in its self would be a legitimate improvement from last year's D. Maybe the key to his D is consistent talent...
 
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mjackson6 said:
loreste said:
mjackson6 said:
Recruiting speed, depth, and more talent in the secondary will do more for preventing the big play than visiting TCU or have this guy come to UM for a few days. That's the reality of where we're at right now.

Golden visiting the cowboys and Seahawks really worked last offseason didn't it?
Click to expand...

It did work, It worked for UM.
Click to expand...

It worked for UM? We had the #15 defense in the country in 2014 (even though that ranking doesn't reflect what actually happened) and then fell to about #100 .
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I think he was referring to the last staff being canned.

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