Chris Ash reflects on Rutgers, his NFL future and his biggest coaching regret | Politi
Former coach Chris Ash takes pride in seeing his former Rutgers stars playing in the NFL
Chris Ash Reflects on His Time at Rutgers
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Whenever I click on these nj.com links, I only see the first few paragraphs - am I missing something?
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Didn't realize he wasn't retained by Antonio Pierce.Chris Ash reflects on Rutgers, his NFL future and his biggest coaching regret | Politi
Former coach Chris Ash takes pride in seeing his former Rutgers stars playing in the NFL
My reflection on Chris Ash at Rutgers
HE SUCKED!
HE SUCKED!
100 % agree.
He loved Rutgers and NJ and all the small successes he brought here that has allowed Greg to have some success.
I think that sums it up lol
I think that sums it up lol
“I was awful. Completely unqualified and clueless. But my disaster allowed for GS 2.0, so I certainly contributed to the current success in that way.”
Fit Rutgers and NJ as much as Terry Shea but at least Shea tried and cost a hell of a lot less.
GO RU
GO RU
We knew !
Ash will get us Smashed
Not a big fan of this hire. I will support it , but I believe we will be posting a lot of 'ash will get us smashed ' on this board in years to come . Remember plum street coined the term' flood the dud ' before the 2012 season . I hope I am proven wrong and 'ash won't get us smashed '. Time to...
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C'mon. Ash tried to alienate the fanbase, the donors and NJ HS coaches. Give him credit for that.
Matt Millen did say during the broadcast of schiano’s first game back against Michigan state that “ash taught these guys to work hard” to set the stage for Schiano
I remember that! I just stopped laughing about that last week.
Couldn’t recruit. Couldn’t rally program alumni or school alumni. Couldn’t put together a Big Ten staff.
Was/is probably a decent Xs & Os guy, but certainly couldn’t coach his way out of that hole.
Was/is probably a decent Xs & Os guy, but certainly couldn’t coach his way out of that hole.
Yeah. He came to reinvent football and make his own history since he felt RU had none to speak of.
This guy will never lead another program again.
GO RU
In fairness, there were some good players left. But some of those players such as Max and Bo and Pacheco were the type of Jersey kids that were going to be all in on Rutgers/NJ anyway.
SBNation copyrighted the GIF, but it still captures Ash to the tee:
He sucked enough at every aspect of running a program, but the pre-emptive middle finger he gave to the program's history and its recent success puts him over the top as the worst of all time.
I'll never understand why Ash didn't heed the words of @Plum Street who could've told him he blows ahead of time.
To be fair, Ash does deserves credit getting us to truly compete with the Jamba Juice, Orange Julius and other blue blood smoothie programs out there.
To be fair, Ash does deserves credit getting us to truly compete with the Jamba Juice, Orange Julius and other blue blood smoothie programs out there.
Shea did as well, McMahon and Brackett being 2 that come to mind. But while Shea didn't cultivate relations with NJ coaches and alums Ash alienated them.
Love this part from Politi.
Really, you were one if them?
When?
"Still: Even the people calling for his head (and, yes, I was one of them) have to acknowledge the many harsh realities about the football program he took over in 2016."
Note: this tweet was the day after the 55-15 loss to Kansas (3-9, 1-8).
Really, you were one if them?
When?
"Still: Even the people calling for his head (and, yes, I was one of them) have to acknowledge the many harsh realities about the football program he took over in 2016."
Note: this tweet was the day after the 55-15 loss to Kansas (3-9, 1-8).
Had he taken over after Schiano in 2012, he might have been successful. Just did not have the skillset and strategy to pull us out of the rut that we were in after the 2015 season. He did his best, but it wasn’t enough. We had two opportunities to hire Cristobal and just didn’t get it done. Even Al Golden would have been the much stronger hire than Chris Ash.
Maybe if the f*cker was did more reflecting and put the brakes on his arrogance when he was here, he might have succeededChris Ash reflects on Rutgers, his NFL future and his biggest coaching regret | Politi
Former coach Chris Ash takes pride in seeing his former Rutgers stars playing in the NFL
Still baffled at his initial press conference
Clown
Total stiff who was in way over his head
Zero respect for traditions
Total stiff who was in way over his head
Zero respect for traditions
He never was going to succeeed here because he didn’t have the right strategy, and insisted on trying to do things here like they were done at Ohio State. He was DOA.
The fact that he can’t sniff a DC role should tell you everything you need to know. I’m sure he is a good position coach but he was a horrible face of a program. I’ve seen some people uncomfortable in a public setting and he is at the top of the list.
That’s not why he didn’t succeed. If he did things the OSU way he could have been successful. His hubris and cluelessness was his downfall
Never going to succeed?
DOA?
That seems harsh.
Clearly he was doing something right. Some were even "satisfied with the way things are progessing" and wanted an extension after 2017.
https://rutgers.forums.rivals.com/threads/time-to-think-about-an-extension-for-coach-ash.132909/
The purpose of them interviewing him is...what again?
Cluelessness was an issue, but
No one would have cared about his hubris if he won. Every coach demonstrates hubris.
He tried primarily recruiting the Midwest and had very little to show for it. It took him four years to understand that he needed to recruit Florida. That more than anything else, had a detrimental impact on our talent level.
The Ash fiasco wasn't hard to predict. All you had to do was look at the game when RU went down to Arkansas and put up huge numbers against the Chris Ash lead Arkansas defense. However in his defense he would have had a good defense at RU if he could have brought all those 5 star Ohio State defenders with him to SHI.
Wtf did you expect me to post in midst of a 5 win season. “We’re doomed”
We won 5 games in 2017, with leftover Flood talent and the Bus, so at the time, things seemed to be headed in the right direction, so yes, many were satisfied at that time. But now we’re speaking with 20/20 hindsight, and know better.
He wasn’t bad with X’s and O’s But it was his inability to recruit which was a problem. Nevertheless, the new practice fields, weight room, and locker room got done during his tenure, and that was huge.
