All I know is that anyone who has ever tried to run a 4-man defensive front at UH since I can remember (which is about the Dimel era) has failed.
Art Briles tried it, but reverted to the 3-4.
Kevin Sumlin tried it initially, but ended up reverting to the 3-4.
Levine and Herman left it a 3-4.
https://www.canesinsight.com/thread/mark-donofrio-hired/115666
Wow! This is unanimous.
Again, I 100% hope that I am wrong but here is where I question this.
Major was a ācontinuityā hire. His ties to the local area is huge, same with hiring local HS Coaches. On the defensive side we need a solid, aggressive, proven Coach or at least someone that has had a winning track record. I would have been fine with an Assistant DC coming from a DOMINATING defense.
I would have to see if the offense was equally or more terrible to see if the statistically āpoorā years were a result of the former
Looks like DāOnofrio was sort of made a scapegoat at Miami. Lot of former players and coaches were going to the media complaining about his schemes (including running 3-4 looks because āthatās not how Miami does thingsā). Problem was, a big portion of the issues with Miami and those Golden teams was their offense.
DāOnofrioās defenses changed from a 4-3 to more of a hybrid 3-4/4-3 look in 2013. DLine were mostly put in position to line up in a 1-gap set, but were asked to line-up in 2-gap from time to time and let the LBs get up field. The secondary mostly was in man coverage, but did run zone from time to time as well. Basically, the defense can be complex, but itās designed to be that way to confuse the offense.
His schemes also require complete buy-in by the players (as would any defense). There were many questions about Miami players buy-in, especially at the end when it was becoming obvious that the coaches were probably going to be gone.
I donāt know if Iām crazy about the hire, but Iām willing to give it the benefit of the doubt. Gibbs was a mostly failed NFL DB coach before coming to UH. Orlando was a relative unknown with no Texas ties. These things can be overcome.
Good points pray! I am going to grab some 
and watch some Miami games this weekend. Canāt show up to the spring game without some tape time. 
Well it wasnāt his wiki description that made him the top candidate.
Iām really starting to think that Tillmanās hands on approach might have turned off many good candidates and these were the best we could do.
He runs anything but a vanilla defense. Heās known for having very complex defenses, something that probably took well at Temple, where with DāOnofrio they won 5 games for the first time in 18 years in 2008 and then won 9 and 8 the following two seasons, but maybe not as well at Miami. Heās also noted for being very good at making halftime adjustments. Heās not Jamie Bryant. Good lord. Here are a couple of pieces on him
That Wiki description is BS. Probably some disgruntled Miami fan edited that. Thereās no way that gets published as an objective piece of writing.
Thank you for posting the highlight video. Looks like an attacking defense.
Thanks Sam: I didnāt know he was at Temple for their resurgence. I can see Miami players not buying in. We generally donāt have that problem at UH.
When we hired Orlando, people thought it was the end of the world and started excoriating Herman because we didnāt retain Gibbs.
I say give the guy a chance, heās a P5 coordinator, not lackey assistant.
All the biatching and moaning will hurt season ticket sales. IMHO.
GLANCE AGAIN!!! Coach D and his defense basically turned Temple from doormat to winnerā¦Helped them to 2 consecutive bowl bids for first time in school historyā¦ANYBODY who bothered to watch Temple back then saw a team that won games with their defense, not by outscoring peopleā¦his Miami defenses never ranked lower than 4th in ACC his first 4 yearsā¦so he had ONE bad year?? Like Gibbs is a horrible coach because of last year at Tech??
Coach D is a GOOD defensive coach ans has proved itā¦
Really? The only criticism I remember him getting was that he changed jobs every 2 years.
Orlando was a ??? hire because no one had a clue who he was and he had never coached anywhere around Texas. Plus, he wasnāt Gibbs, who people loved.
Orlando came here after running the best defense nobody had heard of for two years at Utah State.
Dāonofrio comes to us after running this:
I hope we donāt see that here.
#Savage
You mean Miami fans, right? Because they do know him and are still criticizing him.
We on this board can be very mean. Can we just give the man a chance to coach?
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