Notre Dame is about to rent a brand new defensive coordinator within the wake of Al Golden’s departure.
Chris Ash on Wednesday agreed to a deal to change into the defensive coordinator at Notre Dame, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports.
Ash, 51, was a scout with the Jacksonville Jaguars this season. He was a defensive backs coach with the Las Vegas Raiders previous to that and likewise spent a season as Jacksonville’s safeties coach.
Nearly all of Ash’s teaching expertise is on the collegiate degree, nevertheless. He was the pinnacle coach at Rutgers from 2016-2019. Ash has additionally been a defensive coordinator for a number of faculty packages. He was co-defensive coordinator at Ohio State in 2014 and 2015, and he might wind up with an identical association in South Bend.
In accordance with John Brice of FootballScoop, Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman could want Ash to serve as co-defensive coordinator with Irish defensive again’s coach Mike Mickens, who’s the longest-tenured member of the staff’s teaching employees.
Notre Dame’s protection allowed simply 15.5 factors per recreation, which ranked fifth out of 134 throughout the 2024 faculty season. The staff ranked seventh out of 134 in factors allowed in 2023.
Golden not too long ago took a job as a defensive coordinator of an NFL team.
