Chris Ash (Secondary Coach Jacksonville Jaguars)

[MililaniBuckeye]

Yes, B1G East will always be tough, but Rutgers has gone the wrong direction. Surprised at mid year firing, but they can do better than THIS. I do like Ash, think he'll D Coord somewhere soon.

Yep. With the talent pool that's in a 4-6 hour radius of campus they should be able to build a team that's at least competitive every rear...

 

[charlohiottean]

I know it’s small of me but,

I’m smiling thinking how getting slammed by TTUN was the last straw. AD says, ”We lost 52 zip to THOSE GUYS? Bye Chris.”

edit: I do also agree with what Nigel said about him.

 

[sparcboxbuck]

Should there be any fire behind the smoke of Urban coaching again, I got a pretty solid guess as to who he’s calling first to be his DC.

 

[dragurd]

I know it’s small of me but,

I’m smiling thinking how getting slammed by TTUN was the last straw. AD says, ”We lost 52 zip to THOSE GUYS? Bye Chris.”

edit: I do also agree with what Nigel said about him.

Well McMuffinstuff is apparently reporting they decided to fire him 2 weeks ago and approved it at a board meeting which would be weird. Ya either fire him immediately when you decide to or let him ride out the season not abitrarily go 2 weeks and go yeah were out...

 

[ScriptOhio]

Chris Ash was fired as Rutgers coach in the middle of his fourth season a day after the Scarlet Knights were routed 52-0 by Michigan, the school announced.

Ash went 8–32 in his time at Rutgers, including 1–3 this season. The school will pay Ash nearly $9 million to buy him out. His 2019 salary was set at $2.3 million salary and was owed $7.5 million through the 2022 season.
https://www.si.com/college-football/2019/09/29/rutgers-chris-ash-fired

Just sayin': I would have thought Ash would have been doing much better in recruiting, especially in NJ (no 4 or 5 star guys in any of these 3 classes):

#58 class in 2018: https://rutgers.rivals.com/commitments/Football/2018

None of NJ's nine (2018) 4 or 5 star prospects: https://n.rivals.com/state_rankings/2018/new_jersey

#50 class in 2019: https://rutgers.rivals.com/commitments/Football/2019

None of NJ's eleven (2019) 4 or 5 star prospects: [URL]https://n.rivals.com/state_rankings/2019/new_jersey[/URL]

#77 class in 2020: https://rutgers.rivals.com/commitments/Football/2020

None of NJ's twelve (2020) 4 star prospects: https://n.rivals.com/state_rankings/2020/new_jersey

 

[BuckeyeSoldier]

I wonder if he mistook ohio's recognition for how well he was doing for national recognition? It seemed to me like he was doing great but hadnt really built his name to a level yet that let him get recruits attention outside of tOSU fans.

 

[starBUCKS]

Too bad he didn’t coach with Day. Perhaps there’s an “Analyst job” floating around.

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

Too bad he didn’t coach with Day. Perhaps there’s an “Analyst job” floating around.

Eh, Urbs is still around, LJSr, and Tony Afford. Got some guys to go to bat for him but really he’ll end up at Bama

 

[lvbuckeye]

I like the guy, but TTUN is fragile as F, and Rutgers didn't even put up a fight.

 

[Tanner]

The Rutgers job is a suicide mission. The only coach who should take it is an older coach who realizes he's not going to get a shot at a head coach job elsewhere, or a young position coach who can skip multiple steps to get a head coach job.

 

[alexhortdog95]

We'll take him.

 

[Jaxbuck]

The Rutgers job is a suicide mission. The only coach who should take it is an older coach who realizes he's not going to get a shot at a head coach job elsewhere, or a young position coach who can skip multiple steps to get a head coach job.

ka·mi·ka·ze
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noun

1. (in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

Rutgers HC = kamikaze without any crashes on enemy target

it's just suicide

 

[NFBuck]

The Rutgers job is a suicide mission. The only coach who should take it is an older coach who realizes he's not going to get a shot at a head coach job elsewhere, or a young position coach who can skip multiple steps to get a head coach job.

I know a guy...

*CLAP CLAP CLAP*

 

[matt_thatsme]

It seems exceedingly rare that a coordinator coming from coaching under a legendary coach at a premier program succeeds in his first HC gig. Just take a look at the Alabama/Saban coaching tree.

I talked to an insider with the UT football program, aka Big Orange Dumpster Fire, and he mentioned that Pruitt constantly refers to success he had at Alabama to justify his coaching decisions and methods at UT, i.e. “It worked at Bama, so it will work here.” The problem is that these protégés don’t have the same clout and definitely don’t have access to the same resources to make the same things work at different schools.

I wonder if Ash fell into this same scenario- trying to apply the same things he watched UFM do with Ohio State at Rutgers.

 

[ShowMeBuck]

Never understood why he took that gig.

You might as well sign up to fix the titanic.