Chris Ash to Rutgers

[CYcoFan]

As far as "bad blood" when Ash left I wonder if we got an answer, being Paul Rhoads' name has been brought up for DC at OSU? Wonder if Ash dropped a name of a qualified candidate?

 

[Kitkat]

This is just wrong. Chris Ash is an innovative mind and a good recruiter. He'll recruit the heck out of that region and land some pretty good players.

I pretty much agree here. There are lots of good football players in the Jersey, southern NY, and eastern PA area where the metropolitan pop. is c. 25 million. True, he will have to compete with Penn St., Cuse, and BC, but Rutgers is located about an hour from NYC and only a bit more from Philly, which should help with the recruiting. And an earlier post was mistaken when he implied that the Rutgers job has been bad forever: the fact is that for decades Rutgers did not try to compete at the highest level, playing a kind of neo-Ivy league schedule. Then came Schiano and ambition grew.

 

[mattyheiden]

LoL @ lateral move. Smh

 

[CyCrazy]

Pride of Ottumwa, IA!

Is anyone proud to be from Ottumwa?

 

[Cyclonetrombone]

Both Chris ash and Tom Herman both head coaches at FBS schools it is amazing that once an assistant coach leaves Iowa state they lead there own program

All part of the Hayden Frye tree/forest through coach Mac.

It would be great if some of Hoiberg's assistants could become coaches. About the only way to start a brand new tree is to never have coached before getting a major college gig. Few have the ability to claim that over the past few decades.

 

[Cyclonetrombone]

Is anyone proud to be from Ottumwa?

 

[BikeSkiClone]

Just saw that Ash hired Drew Mehringer away from Houston. Very, very intelligent (football and otherwise) young coach from Texas who has been with Herman since 2006 at Rice w/ the exception of '09 season when he was finishing up school and the 2014 season when he was Co-OC/QB coach at James Madison

2006 - 2009 played/had career-ending injury, worked for Herman as student assistant
2010 - 2011 GA at Iowa State
2012 - 2013 GA at Ohio State
2014 - Co-OC at James Madison
2015 - WR coach at Rice
2016 - OC at Rutgers

That's an impressive resume and shows what hard work and knowing the right people can do for a young guy who wants to get into coaching

http://www.si.com/college-football/2015/12/12/rutgers-drew-mehringer-chris-ash-tom-herman-ohio-state

 

[D UP Clones]

Pretty typical for someone who wants to be a head coach and thinks he is ready.

Pretty sure that Ash had other issues that seemed to get in the way. Had nothing to do with coaching.

 

[fairviewfarmer]

Pretty sure that Ash had other issues that seemed to get in the way. Had nothing to do with coaching.

You are correct. All one needs to do is to do the math. He got divorced after his time in Ames in 2009. I'm sure some on here know the specifics.