Chris "Belt To" Ash - Defensive Coordinator

[rtrn2glory]

Defense is improving but I haven't forgotten how good we were with Golden.. I'd take him back in a heartbeat..

With that said I'm guessing he'll be the next DC at Penn St when they hire a new coach

 

[Irish du Nord]

Defense is improving but I haven't forgotten how good we were with Golden.. I'd take him back in a heartbeat..

With that said I'm guessing he'll be the next DC at Penn St when they hire a new coach

Maybe Head Coach?

 

[BeatSC]

Indeed it is hard to see Ash getting a head coaching job any time soon unless he's fired into one a la Parker. He could be our DC for awhile, which seems crazy to say when we all wanted him shitcanned right in the locker room the night of the A&M game. But if our defense keeps doing what it's been doing the last few games, OK.

Porker got one after one season and he sucked ass.

 

[SportsingHard]

Kinda crazy take, Golden had back to back Top 5ish defenses his last two years at ND. The defense shut down both prolific Indiana and SEC Champ Georgia on the way to the national championship.

Ash's defense is certainly playing much better and getting the job done recently but we're 38th in stop rate and hovering around Top 20ish in most advanced stats.

College football defensive stop rate after Week 10

We rank the top defenses each week based on how many times an opponent's drive ends without points.

www.espn.com

He still has a long way to go to match the production we saw from Golden.

He's doing far better than Golden did in his first season, when ND regressed significantly (and struggled with Navy), and we can still point to personnel issues back when Ash's defense was at its worst.

 

[MacIrish75]

Chris Ash 🤝 Bill “The Butcher” Cutting

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

Defense is improving but I haven't forgotten how good we were with Golden.. I'd take him back in a heartbeat..

With that said I'm guessing he'll be the next DC at Penn St when they hire a new coach

Don't they have Knowles?

 

[MacIrish75]

Navy with 44 second half yards (by my count).

Ash killed it tonight.

 

[KMac151993]

I will fully admit i was 100% wrong about Ash...guy has got it figured out and rolling.

 

[notredomer23]

I’m scared how much I’m looking forward to year 2 of his defense. It should be as stingy as we’ve seen of the Freeman era

 

[irishff1014]

He and this team had this unit ready. Yes, they missed some big tackles early but the corrected it.

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

He and this team had this unit ready. Yes, they missed some big tackles early but the corrected it.

A few bad angles early, but he squared them away.

 

[Kingbish01]

It's definitely funny looking back and how some of us (myself included )thought we knew more than Freeman and Urban Meyer. Looks like another great hire by Freeman, I guess I'll finally trust his football knowledge may be better than mine.

 

[MacIrish75]

It's definitely funny looking back and how some of us (myself included )thought we knew more than Freeman and Urban Meyer. Looks like another great hire by Freeman, I guess I'll finally trust his football knowledge may be better than mine.

It’s definitely working out. But…all the more reason to not schedule like assholes.

 

[Plankton]

The defense has really gotten in sync and is playing well, especially against the run.

That being said, I can't help but look at Chris Ash's face on the sideline, and not think that he would either have a haughty British accent or a French accent of some kind.

 

[Kingbish01]

The defense has really gotten in sync and is playing well, especially against the run.

That being said, I can't help but look at Chris Ash's face on the sideline, and not think that he would either have a haughty British accent or a French accent of some kind.

I picture him like Stu from the Hangover...missing a tooth and all.

 

[FOTY977]

I believe my last post on this thread is something like “Chris Ass - Bootyfensive Buttordinator” I like to think he saw that and used it as motivation to field the cold AF squad we’ve seen most of the season.

Hats off to the whole staff and team for coming together and doing what they’ve done.

 

[Bane]

It's definitely funny looking back and how some of us (myself included )thought we knew more than Freeman and Urban Meyer. Looks like another great hire by Freeman, I guess I'll finally trust his football knowledge may be better than mine.

He's definitely proving me wrong. I'll gladly eat crow on that if he finishes the season off like we've been playing.

 

[stlnd01]

Basically rested two starters today - Traore and Grey - and still held an offense that averages 35 points a game, to 10.

 

[LuckoftheIrish86]

The G

 

[SportsingHard]

The defense has really gotten in sync and is playing well, especially against the run.

That being said, I can't help but look at Chris Ash's face on the sideline, and not think that he would either have a haughty British accent or a French accent of some kind.

All good things to those who wait.

 

[Veritate Duce Progredi]

He certainly deserves respect. I was done with him after 3 games and he's completely changed things around. I still don't get some of his zone calls on 3rd and long. Better teams will convert those in critical moments but....

Until that happens, he's done a helluva job weeks 4-10.

 

[Huntr]

The defense has really gotten in sync and is playing well, especially against the run.

That being said, I can't help but look at Chris Ash's face on the sideline, and not think that he would either have a haughty British accent or a French accent of some kind.

If Ash had some arrogant asshole French accent, no team would score on them ever again.

 

[Cackalacky2.0]

 

[HouseofPain]

How much is the success attributed to playing bad teams?

 

[rtrn2glory]

Doesn't matter how bad the teams they've played are they'll be up for this game

 

[thekid33]

Chris Ash, I apologize. I was wrong about you.

 

[Irish#1]

Made some good adjustments at the half. Started attacking the LOS creating a lot of havoc for Navy.

Nothing wrong with Ash’s expression that a good laxative couldn’t take care of.

 

[stlnd01]

How much is the success attributed to playing bad teams?

A bit, sure, but we've handed five of our last six opponents their lowest scoring game of the season, including Arkansas which averages 35 points a game in the SEC, and NC State which averages 33.

 

[Dale]

How much is the success attributed to playing bad teams?

Nobody seemed to bring that up when Golden was DC. The 2024 schedule was largely a complete joke of offenses

 

[arrowryan]

How much is the success attributed to playing bad teams?

Zero, imo. They’ve played way better offenses this year, compared to last year.