Chris Ash’s defense is simple but causes confusion.
It is aggressive but not risky. It is established but adaptable.
Such is the picture painted by two Big Ten Network analysts familiar with the schematics and teaching style of the new Rutgers football coach, who wrapped up his stint as Ohio State’s defensive coordinator with a win Friday in the Fiesta Bowl and now is on board in Piscataway.
“When you look at his defense, it always looks the same,” Stanley Jackson, a former Ohio State quarterback, told Gannett New Jersey. “They start from a Cover Four shell.