Texas Longhorns: Chris Ash

  • How are other Power 5 schools with a dual coordinator change faring?
    November 12, 2020
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    Press conference after press conference, Texas head coach Tom Herman reminds fans and media alike his program brought in seven new assistant coaches, including two new coordinators. He will also poin...
  • Gameplan: The Longhorns show off their schematic makeover
    September 17, 2020
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    After a tumultuous offseason, we finally got to see the Longhorns take the field on Saturday night. Following the hiring new coordinators on both sides of the ball, Texas received what proved to be a...
  • Saturday was a good day for first impressions
    September 13, 2020
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    Plenty of offseason attention on the Longhorns went to fourth-year quarterback Sam Ehlinger, fourth-year offensive linemen Sam Cosmi and Derek Kerstetter, and fourth-year head coach Tom Herman. Satur...
  • Press box or on-field? Herman, coordinators explain preferences for game day location
    September 11, 2020
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    A peculiarity surrounding every new assistant coaching hire is figuring out their locations on game day. Texas took away some intrigue when the game notes for Saturday’s game with UTEP listed where...
  • How Chris Ash installed a defense during a pandemic
    August 29, 2020
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    When Texas changed coordinators following the 2019 season, it was clear the defensive overhaul under Chris Ash would require significantly more effort than the offensive change. After all, according ...
  • Gameplan: Is D’Shawn Jamison the key to Texas’ defense in 2020?
    July 23, 2020
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    The 2020 season has been circled for Texas since 2018, when Tom Herman signed a top ranked class that included six blue chip defensive backs. As soon as Chris Ash was hired and “4-2-5 press quarter...
  • Recruiting: JD Coffey joins Texas’ #trUTh21 class
    June 15, 2020
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    Texas dipped into DFW for the latest addition to its 2021 class when Kennedale DB JD Coffey chose the Longhorns. The post Recruiting: JD Coffey joins Texas’ #trUTh21 class appeared first on Inside ...
  • Gameplan: What to do with B.J. Foster?
    May 28, 2020
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    Tom Herman’s first complete recruiting class in 2018 was nearly an ideal group for competing in the Big 12. There were multiple promising athletes on the offensive line, weapons like Keaontay Ingra...
  • Ossai wants to learn from the past, and Chris Ash, to achieve title aspirations
    May 14, 2020
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    Calling defense at the Power 5 level is a performance-based business. Todd Orlando’s 2019 regular season as Texas’ defensive coordinator resulted in his dismissal from Tom Herman’s program due ...
  • Gameplan: Longhorns DC Chris Ash versus RPOs
    April 30, 2020
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    Chris Ash is entering a brutal world taking on Big 12 offenses. The conference is a graveyard for defensive coaches that has laid low many a rising star who’d shown so much promise in stopping the ...
  • Inside the Gameplan: Spring depth charts
    April 16, 2020
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    Normally spring would bring practices and the orange and white game, offering up a lot of clarity on the depth chart and pecking order on the team. Assuming they didn't do another of those terrible d...
  • Texas’ offseason system installs impeded but not derailed by coronavirus
    April 1, 2020
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    The coronavirus and corresponding responses by public officials have impeded Tom Herman from accomplishing his spring task of fully installing new offensive and defensive systems. Thanks to modern te...
  • Inside the Gameplan: Building around Joseph Ossai
    March 26, 2020
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    Todd Orlando is no longer the defensive coordinator at Texas in no small part because in 2019 he squandered some of the best pass-rushing personnel Texas has fielded in years. Despite having a dream ...
  • Inside the Gameplan: Building a base pass rush
    February 20, 2020
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    In Super Bowl LIV, the San Francisco 49ers nearly took down Pat Mahomes’ Chiefs thanks to a dominant base pass rush that allowed them to restrain the lethal Kansas City passing game. Nick Bosa look...
  • Inside the Gameplan: Texas’ three new coordinators
    February 13, 2020
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    Texas fans recently got to hear from all of the new staff that will be trying to restart Longhorn football into the new decade and preserve Tom Herman’s place in it. The post Inside the Gameplan: ...
  • Ash, Valai tasked to do what T-shirts couldn’t in creating a DBU-worthy secondary
    January 15, 2020
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    Texas’ defensive backs warmed up before the season-opener with Louisiana Tech wearing shirts reading “There’s only one DBU” in large, burnt orange letters. One week later, LSU and eventual He...
  • The schematic choices ahead for Chris Ash
    January 2, 2020
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    Texas fans finally got their wish in the 2019 bowl game against the Utah Utes. Star linebacker Joseph Ossai, who’d spent much of the season playing as a nickel or weak inside linebacker, was finall...
  • Chris Ash’s first impression on several Texas defenders
    December 29, 2019
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    In his sophomore season, linebacker Joseph Ossai was second on the Longhorns in tackles (81), tackles for loss (7.5), and interceptions (2). He did this bouncing between the boundary linebacker and r...
  • What to expect from new Texas Defensive Coordinator Chris Ash
    December 17, 2019
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    Following the regular-season finale against Texas Tech, it became clear that changes were coming to the Texas coaching staff. A few days later, four coaches were relieved of their duties or reassigne...
  • Inside the Gameplan: Scouting Chris Ash
    December 12, 2019
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    The most important hire Tom Herman will make this offseason will be the offensive coordinator as this team will go as far as Sam Ehlinger and the offense can take them. Whoever takes over on defense ...