I Hope it’s Chris Ash

So much pearl clutching. Ash isn't guaranteed to have this defense playing well next season. Our defense ranked in the 60s for heavens sake.
Yeah, right. I think your sample rate is highly questionable.

Ash got them playing well towards the end of the season with no offseason prep.

And he sucks so badly he’s the first guy Meyer is calling to be there wherever he lands.
 
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So much pearl clutching. Ash isn't guaranteed to have this defense playing well next season. Our defense ranked in the 60s for heavens sake.
This coaching change has done wonders for Ash’s status around here. I like Ash, but some on here act like he’s some sort of legend. Our defense was improved from last year, but far from a good unit.
 
None of the other DC choices seem better

Username checks out.

Urban, you need to make sure he gets a job at your other protege's schools in Florida and Cincinnati.

Also, let's not forget that Herman never coached with Tim Beck. Beck got the job based on Urban's recommendation to Herman.
 
defensive stats under Chris ash:
Total defense - 64th nationally
Passing yards allowed per game - 108th nationally @ 266 per game
Rushing yards per game - 38th nationally @ 140 per game
Points per game allowed - 63rd nationally @ 28 per game

why are we acting like Chris ash is the countries best DC?

Add how many points Tech and OU dropped on him and hes the same as every DC since Will Muschamp pretty much lmao
 
Keeping Ash makes a ton of sense if you're into logic and reason, instead of knee-jerk reactions. Here's my reasoning:

(1) Wisconsin has won 3 outright Big Ten Championships in the last 50 years: 1999, 2011, 2012. Ash was their DC for two of those.

(2) Ash won a National Championship as Ohio State's DC.

(3) Urban Meyer, who is credited as inventing the RPO that is all the rage today, calls Ash "the best defensive coordinator in college football". And mind you, Urban has employed possibly the best combination of DCs in the last 20 years: Chris Ash, Greg Schiano, Luke Fickell, Alex Grinch (current OU DC), Greg Mattison (current tOSU DC), Charlie Strong, Tim Beckman, and Everett Withers. Only Saban can claim as strong of a lineup. Yet out of all of those guys, he calls Ash "the best in college football". He's said it from the first day he was hired at Texas. He didn't have to. He could have called him "one of the best". But, he didn't mince words.

(4) Texas was robbed of approximately 1,500 spring and summer reps, which unquestionably hindered not only the rollout of the new defensive scheme, but resulted in the defense entering the season needing a ton of in-season reps to get comfortable.

(5) The Texas defense started off horrible. But, once they caught up on the reps they were deprived of in preseason, they started to turn in better and better performances, holding 4 of the final 6 opponents below their season scoring average, and allowing 2 just a few points more than their season scoring average.

(6) Even with starting the season lacking comfort in the new defense, and ranking VERY poorly through the first 4 games, they played well enough down the stretch to deliver some pretty good good defensive metrics:

2020 Texas Defensive Rankings (out of 127 teams)
15th -- Points Allowed per Drive Starting at Opp 0-20 Y/L
28th -- 3rd Down Conversion %
29th -- Yards per Play
30th -- Yards per Rush
32nd -- Busted Drive Rate (% of drives that earn 0 or negative yards)
35th -- Yards per Pass Attempt
40th -- Punts per Play (how frequently punts are forced)
40th -- DFEI (defensive football efficiency index)
41st -- Expected Points Added (points added/lost by the D)
41st -- Punts Forced to TDs/FGs Given Up
41st -- Points Allowed per Play
49th -- Points Allowed per Drive

Nothing was omitted for the sake of making the D appear better than it really was.

(7) Continuity matters. Familiarity matters. Comfort in a scheme matters. All of those affect the win/loss column, especially in the early going of a season. That's why Saban was 7-6 his first season at Alabama and 8-4 his first season at LSU, they blew up the 2nd year at both. It takes time to get your players comfortable in what they need to do on the field. If Sark fires Ash, then the defense will go into the off season needing to learn their 3rd scheme under their 3rd DC in 3 years. You think that's going to help the win/loss column in year 1?

(8) The 2021 recruiting class is already a disaster. And, Sark's results at UW and USC unquestionably will be used against him in recruiting. If he fails to deliver a 10+ win season in year 1, it will be a confirmation of his prior HC results in the minds of recruits. Texas can't afford a second down recruiting class, because those are the guys Sark will need to deliver results in years 3 and 4. The only way to sign a great 2022 class is if the win column justifies those recruits spurning Alabama, LSU, Ohio State, OU, A&M, et al.

(9) Covid isn't over. And, we won't have herd immunity until summer at the earliest. That means, it's very likely we either don't get a spring season or the spring season is heavily modified to limit spread. Either way, it makes no sense to roll out a brand new defensive scheme when once again, players will likely be deprived of vital reps, especially when Sark/Texas needs a strong first season.

(10) The known options for replacing Ash are either a DC who's coordinated a whopping 13 games vs P5 teams in his life or a DC that has struggled shutting down teams with Alabama-level talent + input from Saban.

Love how the part about Chris Ash being able to shut down teams at Texas, such as trash ass Tech and the worst OU team in 20 years were skipped (both almost droppped 60 on his ass). Cherry picked stats. Chris Ash's D failed to shut down inferior talent for almost every team not named KSU or Colorado.
 
nah. Either one of them will be good enough for us to win the Big 12 with Sark calling the offense.
I have my doubts too but you have to know that this the big rodeo for Sark so why would he hire someone equal to the task?
 
He is my choice for anyone not named Quinn.

But his record at Whisky when big10 offenses looked like something from the 1930’s does not sway me.

It is great that he won big at OH St...just like Herman did.

His defense was less than stellar at Rutgers.

The first half of this year was not good at all. However we had just changed defenses AGAIN with no spring ball. I think progress was made.

Having said all that, I am not prepared to die on this hill. If losing Ash for “GoldMember” or “Arny” and it enables us to hire position coaches who recruit at very high levels, I will live with it.

If we keep Ash, did Sark say I am getting recruiters who also coach for my position coaches and you can deal with it. If Ash stays, he will have not made a single position coach hire. I am sure it has happened before but I can’t remember it.
 
Love how the part about Chris Ash being able to shut down teams at Texas, such as trash ass Tech and the worst OU team in 20 years were skipped (both almost droppped 60 on his ass). Cherry picked stats. Chris Ash's D failed to shut down inferior talent for almost every team not named KSU or Colorado.
There's nothing cherry picked about citing year-end stats. On the year, despite a rough start, Ash's defense put up good numbers. Not great. But, "great" went out the door when 100% spring football was canceled and 80% of fall camp was canceled.

Also......dude.........what are you talking about??? K-State is one of the 3 whole teams this season that scored above their season average vs Texas. You think giving up 31 to K-State was "shutting them down", but holding #10 Iowa State to 23 was "failing to shut them down"?

Points Texas D Held Above/Below Season 4 Quarters Average (in game order)
-21 -- UTEP​
+28 -- Texas Tech​
0 -- TCU​
-10 -- Oklahoma​
-7 -- Baylor​
+3 -- Oklahoma State​
-10 -- West Virginia​
-10 -- Iowa State​
+4 -- Kansas State​
-4 -- Colorado​

Please tell me how I cherry picked the stats above, which show that the defense performed considerably better as they got reps in the system Ash installed.

Remember how Alabama gave up 48 to 5-5 Ole Miss in the 3rd game of the season? They're trash as a result too, right? Or is it only when Texas gives up 6 points more to 4-6 Tech in the 2nd game of the season after installing a new defense with almost no off season to gain reps?

Also........#6 OU, this year's Big 12 Champion, is worse than the 2014 (8-5), 2009 (8-5) and 2005 (8-4) teams..........all of which finished unranked and without a Big 12 Championship? Really? Because of a 7-point loss to #10 Iowa State in the 3rd game of the season and a 3-point loss to Kansas State in the 2nd game? LOL.

You knee-jerk, speak from emotion, reactionists make it too easy for me. Give me a TL;DR (or ignore my post) so I know you've raised the white flag and surrendered.
 
It’s looking like Golding and that is a very good hire. Sark is a top 5 college football offensive mind, and I bet he has a pretty good handle on how good Pete Golding is.
 
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Even if they lose... so what? These same coordinators have helped Bama get into the playoffs for multiple seasons in a row now.
They didn’t make the playoffs last season. This is their first together . Every new coordinator takes Bama to the playoffs.
 
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When they played the weaker part of the schedule?
Weaker part???

3-5 UTEP
4-6 Texas Tech
6-4 TCU
9-2 Oklahoma (#6)

2-7 Baylor
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8-3 Oklahoma State (#21)
6-4 West Virginia
9-3 Iowa State (#10)
4-6 Kansas State
4-2 Colorado

Blue = bowl teams

Red = Top 25 teams


Can you help me identify the point in the schedule when it transitioned from the stronger part to the weaker part? I see all those sub-.500 teams in the first half, then all the bowl & Top 25 teams in the second half, but I'm having trouble finding the point at which the hard part of the schedule ended and the "weaker part" started. ;)
 
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defensive stats under Chris ash:
Total defense - 64th nationally
Passing yards allowed per game - 108th nationally @ 266 per game
Rushing yards per game - 38th nationally @ 140 per game
Points per game allowed - 63rd nationally @ 28 per game

why are we acting like Chris ash is the countries best DC?
Do OT points count?
 
Weaker part???

3-5 UTEP
4-6 Texas Tech
6-4 TCU
9-2 Oklahoma (#6)

2-7 Baylor
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8-3 Oklahoma State (#21)
6-4 West Virginia
9-3 Iowa State (#10)
4-6 Kansas State
4-2 Colorado

Blue = bowl teams

Red = Top 25 teams


Can you help me identify the point in the schedule when it transitioned from the stronger part to the weaker part? I see all those sub-.500 teams in the first half, then all the bowl & Top 25 teams in the second half, but I'm having trouble finding the point at which the hard part of the schedule ended and the "weaker part" started. ;)
CU was a scrub and you know it. 🤪 The legend of Ash on OB is entertaining
 
No body should want to get in an argument with Iceman. He's got too many legitimate stats to back up his correct conclusions. Only issue is that I don't think Sark is paying attention to him, or much of anyone else here. And all things considered, while I might not agree with all he's doing (does anyone ever?), I feel very good about the overall staff he will wind up with.

But the retraining of the defense is a legitimate concern.
 
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