Erik Chinander

[HIHusker]

Venables took some heat at OU for his defense at times. Now he’s a genius in the ACC. Everyone likes to say they don’t play D in that conference, but not enough credit is given to how good some of those offenses are as well. Over the years we’ve seen vaunted Big10 defenses like Michigan St. in the college playoff Get ripped open by good offenses

After Diaco/Banker/Cosgrove I'd give a major organ donation to have Venables on our sideline.  One can dream...

 

[HuskerNation1]

Any word on CHinander being a go as DC?  I have seen multiple reports speculating he is the guy, but nothing official.  

 

[RedDenver]

Any word on CHinander being a go as DC?  I have seen multiple reports speculating he is the guy, but nothing official.  

New safety recruit said Chinander is recruiting him to Nebraska, so that's pretty much a done deal.

 

[HuskerNation1]

New safety recruit said Chinander is recruiting him to Nebraska, so that's pretty much a done deal.

Ok thx for that update

 

[Mavric]

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[Mierin]

Another thing to keep in mind is this was year 2 for this team with this defense and DC, and it was his first time as DC.

UCF went undefeated but that doesn't mean they couldn't have still been learning and improving.

 

[husker98]

The defense will be fine. His unit was great this year and only gave up 

A lot of points to the best teams in their conference.

It took really good players to beat chinanders year one defense

 

[4skers89]

1:00:00 mark Zatechka references an OWH article about UCF defense was only defense to shut down UCF offense.

http://huskerdoctalk.podbean.com/e/2017-episode-20-finally-something-to-believe-in/

 

[ATS Knight]

I imagine "is Frost willing to fire his buddy" will be a major topic of discussion in the coming years.

Sorry, guys. I hope that Chinander is better for y'all than he was for us, but I don't know a UCF fan that wasn't happy to see him go. 

And this was a progression from the beginning of the season where everyone wanted him to take over if Frost left. But his defense became more about forcing turnovers than stopping scores. For your sake, I hope that the rapid decline over the season was because he was checking out and looking for other jobs rather than other coaches figuring him out.

But that's a really sad best-case scenario. 

 

[TheSker]

But his defense became more about forcing turnovers than stopping scores.

I'm personally a big fan of a defense causing turnovers.

 

[ATS Knight]

I'm personally a big fan of a defense causing turnovers.

Me too. But when you sell out everything else, you have a great turnover ratio and an unimpressive final score. 

 

[Jason Sitoke]

Me too. But when you sell out everything else, you have a great turnover ratio and an unimpressive final score. 

12-0 is pretty impressive.

 

[SuperBigFan69]

As a guy that coached defense for a lot of years my goals were usually pretty simple.

Don't let the other team score first

No plays over 20 yards

No 3rd or 4th down conversions

Hold teams under 16 points

Force 3 turnovers a game

Win

The only one I actually cared about was the last one

 

[Crusader Husker]

Considering a monkey with chalk and a chalkboard could have done the job at DC just as well, I am going to give the guy a chance and time.

 

[Horace]

As a guy that coached defense for a lot of years my goals were usually pretty simple.

Don't let the other team score first

No plays over 20 yards

No 3rd or 4th down conversions

Hold teams under 16 points

Force 3 turnovers a game

Win

The only one I actually cared about was the last one

So what you're saying is you did not follow the Diaco game plan.