4 C’s of Coaching and Establishing a Plan - Chris Ash, Defensive Backs Coach, Las Vegas Raiders

Today’s guest on the Coach and Coordinator podcast is Chris Ash. He’s currently the defensive backs coach for the Las Vegas Raiders. When we talked to him on the podcast he was the head coach at Rutgers and had just completed his second season as the Scarlet Knights’ head coach.

We were excited as he was the first Big 10 coach to appear on the podcast. Before coming to Rutgers, Ash served as defensive coordinator at Wisconsin and Ohio State and was part of the staff on the Buckeyes’ 2014 College Football Playoff championship team. Ash and host Keith Grabowski talks about culture, building a staff, recruiting, and more.

Show Notes:

• How Ash’s career trajectory brought him to the Big 10 coaching ranks
• What Ash had to learn along the way
• Some of the big names in football who have influenced Ash
• The importance of culture within a program
• How Ash has built the culture, and where the Scarlet Knights stand in their three-year plan
• How Ash built the Rutgers defense based on his past experience as a defensive coach
• Recruiting at Rutgers
• Ash’s system for evaluating players
• The formula for building a coaching staff upon taking the Rutgers job
• How Jerry Kill helped Ash during his time at Rutgers
• How Nunzio Campanile has helped the coaching staff
• The winning edge

Coach Ash has a resource available on CoachTube through THSCA:

https://coachtube.com/course/football/chris-ash-tackling-situations/12398861?a=ddd391c93af2433281656b763

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