Iowa State Head Football Coach Gene Chizik

[JCloned]

Iowa State Cyclone Head Coach Gene Chizik comes to ISU after two seasons at Texas as the assistant head coach/co-defensive coordinator/linebackers coach. A 20-year veteran of coaching, Chizik came to the Longhorns from Auburn where he spent three seasons as defensive coordinator (2002-04). Chizik has been widely identified as one of the best assistant coaches in all of college football. As Auburn Defensive Coordinator Chizik led a defense ranked among the nation's top five in total defense and among the top 10 in scoring defense over his final two years. Under Chizik's guidance in 2004, Auburn led the nation in scoring defense (11.3 ppg), ranked fifth in total defense (277.6 ypg), 10th in passing defense (173.5 ypg) and 12th in rushing defense (104.2 ypg). The Tigers did not allow a rushing touchdown until the eighth game of the season and surrendered only four all year. Additionally, Auburn allowed just one player to rush for more than 100 yards in a game all season.

At Texas while serving as Assistant Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator Chizik’s first UT defense finished the season ranked 10th in total defense (302.9 ypg), eighth in scoring defense (16.4 ppg) and eighth in pass defense (172.0 ypg). His defense helped Texas to its first Big 12 Championship since 1996 and its first National Championship.


COACHING ASSIGNMENTS
2007- Present Head Coach Iowa State University
2005-2006: Assistant Head Coach/Co-Defensive Coordinator/Linebackers, Texas
2002-04: Defensive Coordinator/Secondary, Auburn
1998-2001: Defensive Coordinator, Central Florida
1999-2001: Assistant Coach/Secondary, Central Florida
1998: Assistant Coach/Inside Linebackers, Central Florida
1996-97: Defensive Coordinator, Stephen F. Austin
1995-97: Assistant Coach/Secondary, Stephen F. Austin
1992-94: Assistant Coach/Linebackers, Stephen F. Austin
1990-91: Assistant Coach/Defensive Ends, Middle Tennessee State
1988-89: Graduate Assistant/Outside Linebackers, Clemson
1986-88: Defensive Coordinator/Inside Linebackers, Seminole (Fla.) HS

The success that Chizik has enjoyed hasn’t come by chance. Chip Brown of the Dallas Morning News reports that as Defensive Coordinator at Central Florida Chizik took the initiative to invade the Tampa Bay training camp to learn from the best. Brown writes, “One thing is certain. Chizik is the guy who did such a good job of studying the Bucs' scheme under Dungy and Kiffin that Kiffin no longer opens the team's film room and practices to the extent he once did.
"Gene is a great guy, a great young coach," Kiffin said. "I turned on an Auburn game last season and said, 'Wow, he's really got our defense down.' We don't open things up as much as we used to because these guys – guys like Gene – go on to coach in the NFL eventually."
Kiffin said Chizik asked many good questions when visiting, and "you could tell he was going to be a good one."
Said Chizik, "I can say most of the stuff I do started with the foundation I got from Tampa. I kind of developed it over the years to mix in some different flavors I thought would complement that."
Chizik's industrious attitude about using his own time to learn the Bucs' defense while coaching at a school 90 miles away wasn't lost on Mack Brown. Brown hired Greg Robinson as co-defensive coordinator before last season on the recommendation of USC coach Pete Carroll, in part, because Carroll and Robinson worked with Kiffin on the New York Jets in the early 1990s.
"When we studied what happened in the Super Bowl three years ago when Tampa won, they were not as productive as most of the offenses in the league, but they had by far the best defense," Brown said. "Monte Kiffin is the most innovative defensive person in my lifetime in college and pro football.”

Read the full story on Chizik’s Tampa experience in the link below.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...e.2bf54e9.html

[guitarchitect7]

Great write up. I know Jeremy was looking for this. I stuck it so everyone will be able to see it.

[C.John]

Thanks JCloned.

[ISUFan22]

Two thumbs up!

[JCloned]

I am so excited by this hire. Can we start building the JP statue now?

[cytheguy]

Originally Posted by JCloned

I am so excited by this hire. Can we start building the JP statue now?

Let's put together some winning seasons, win the North, and play in a significant bowl game first.

[cyfan964]

I keep walking around the house just saying.... Gene F'in Chizik...I am so amazed... never even really thought he was a possibility. What a great AD we have. We needed a WOW guy and we definitely got him.

[ISUFan22]

All of you do realize we landed a guy that won at least 27 games in a row, right?

'04 - Auburn goes undefeated
'05 - Texas goes undefeated.

Oh, and he was awarded the Boryles Award - goes to the nation's top assistant.

Iowa State University just hired one of the top assistants in college football. Amazing.

What more can you ask for?

[guitarchitect7]

A championship!

[JCloned]

Truly amazing is right. There were other good candidates, but wow. The only negative thing I have been able to come up with on him is that he is a big ABBA fan :-)

[Wesley]

Truly the Great White Hope for Ames.

[melt]

I like the fact that he's been a position coach for every defensive position, except for defensive tackles. I didn't think there were seperate DE and DT coaches, but I guess so.