Shakeel Rashad on Playing For Gene Chizik: Respect, Reeducation, Results
On Saturday, North Carolina announced the rent of Cistron Chizik as UNC's new defensive coordinator. Chizik returns to UNC subsequently two seasons in Chapel Hill from 2015-16. He has worked at the SEC Network since leaving the sideline following the 2016 flavor.
Chizik joined Larry Fedora'southward UNC staff alee of the 2015 season. The Tar Heels were coming off i of the worst defensive seasons in school history, assuasive 39.0 points and 6.53 yards per play. Chizik speedily revamped the Tar Heel defence, both culturally and schematically, and North Carolina ended the 2015 season as the most-improved defense force at the Power five level, property opponents to 24.five points per game and v.5 yards per play.
On this edition of the Vippolis Podcast, Inside Carolina's Taylor Vippolis is joined by one-time UNC linebacker Shakeel Rashad, who was a senior defensive leader under Chizik during that 2015 flavour.
Rashad provides intimate perspective and insight into the hire of Chizik and what information technology will mean for the UNC defense force moving forward. Rashad gives his initial thoughts on the motility, his first impressions of Chizik, how the defensive coordinator teaches and demands respect, and Chizik'due south general defensive philosophy.
Shakeel Rashad: "Man, I was pumped... I'grand obviously not within the building. I'm non coaching anything. So I don't know the ins and outs of everything that happened this past flavour. Only obviously, we were at the betoken where I knew someone had to get hired. I got the news, just like anyone else. I knew someone had to be hired. If you give me a wish list, I would have written Cistron Chizik for the top seven spots on information technology. Just I would take thought at that place's no style he's leaving ESPN. In that location's a lot of bully candidates out at that place. And so, of form, I see it tweeted that it was Chiz and I was pumped. I was ecstatic."
Rashad: "I recollect that there are a lot of phenomenal coaches that have non won a national title yet, just to walk into a meeting room to know that your defensive coordinator has won a national championship as a defensive coordinator and as a head charabanc. It's similar he's done it, correct? And so you can just sit downwardly and say, 'I've simply got to do what he says, he'll take us to the promised land. I've only got to do information technology he says.'"
Rashad: "I idea that the starting time thing he said to us, I'll always think, really set the tone for the way that all of my experience has been with him. And basically he just said, 'I'm going to treat you like a man. I'grand not going to treat you similar kids. I'm not going to come here and scream at yous, yell at you, cuss you out.' He's like, 'I'm going to treat you with respect and treat y'all similar men, like we're all on the same page. You guys want to win, I want to win. And so if nosotros can just handle our concern and conduct ourselves like that, we'll be in proficient shape.'
"And and so the corporeality of respect he showed for united states immediately, I think demanded respect from the states for him as well. And and then I think that that's why we were able to practice so much then quickly, considering everyone was on the aforementioned page from mean solar day one."
New UNC defensive coordinator Gene Chizik (Photograph: Ross Martin, 247Sports)
Rashad: "I think the beginning word that will always come up to mind is just respect in the way that he conducted himself. I remember in some of the virtually heated situations in games throughout 2015 -- similar we're down 21 at Georgia Tech and I come to the sideline and put on a headset and talk to Chiz up in the box expecting madness and information technology'south very calm, nosotros're having a conversation, we're able to talk. But it'south because of that conversation we had on day one where it was, 'Hey, we're on the same page. I'g gonna treat you guys with respect. Let'south just do this that way.' And so nosotros were able to have those calm conversations.
"And so in-game, it was very like shooting fish in a barrel to fix things. And I think that he'south i of the best teachers I've ever been around for football. He's able to have actually circuitous things that happen in football and boil it downward to the nuts and bolts of it to make sure that every histrion on the field understands what's happening... I went from memorizing a scheme years before, and being able to exercise my chore by memorizing the scheme, to actually understanding football in 2015. And understanding why nosotros're running the scheme this manner. And understanding, 'Okay, well, I know my job here, just I tin see what's happening over on the offense and I know that's going to give u.s. a problem because I can think two-three steps alee and understand what they're trying to do to united states of america and that's what understanding football does for you versus just memorizing your job on any given play."
UNC defensive coordinator Gene Chizik (Photo: Ross Martin, 247Sports)
Rashad: "I retrieve one of the biggest things we did, and I can speak for the linebacker room 100 percent, but I think every other position group did it as well... Day 1, when we sat down in linebacker meetings, it wasn't like, 'Okay, we're installing this coverage or doing this, this, this.' It was, 'Here'southward what a iii-technique is. Here's what a shade is. Hither's what a five-technique is. Here's what 50 is.' So nosotros were learning. It would almost be like you took graduate-level students and walked in and nosotros're like, 'The first letter of the alphabet is A.' But when you lot build it from the ground up in that way, everyone's on the aforementioned page. And we've all learned it now with the same nomenclature. We're all at the same spot. And so now we need to build on top of things moving forrad. Information technology'due south actually easy. Like we took autonomously this massive Deathstar, I'g thinking of like Legos, and took it down to the nuts and bolts of each Lego piece, and now as you build on top of that everyone understands where it came from, and so yous could start to accelerate. But it was really slow downward to speed upwardly mentality there as far every bit learning at all."
Rashad: "I think that one of the things that I find myself thinking about a lot is that I don't recollect you'd ever see a Power V defensive coordinator whose scheme doesn't piece of work on paper, right? Like you don't go to that position, if on paper, your scheme doesn't work. The question is, if yous tin can get the eleven guys on the field to understand it the way y'all exercise and play it the fashion yous do.
"And then I think this scheme helped u.s.a., but you know, information technology'due south not like we went from a scheme that only apartment out didn't work to a scheme that was perfect. Information technology was that nosotros understood it better. We're able to play faster. And when you starting time to play faster, you showtime to brand more plays, you lot start to experience a footling bit more swag, you showtime to take more than fun with your teammates. You don't get tired every bit rapidly. And then you lot start to meet that leadership develop because instead of the people that would take been your leaders being confused and playing tedious and worried about themselves, they are saying, 'Okay, I've got a proficient feel for this, let me help my guy over here. Let me help out this guy over here.'
"And so I call up that it all boiled down to the states agreement the game and playing faster. And I think it was just that that restart really helped. At some level, only a fresh start is gonna assistance. And so I was really excited. And you saw guys on the squad brand total changes, like we had guys that were struggling to run into time on the field before that became big-fourth dimension players for us in 2015, just because of the fresh start. So I was over the moon virtually it from day one. And and then I'm excited to see him come up back."
Rashad: "I don't know what was happening behind closed doors, and how they had those conversations, merely I exercise know that at any given moment, (Chizik) would walk up to linebackers and step correct in our drill. (Jeff) Schoettmer actually sent me a video of Chiz doing drills with u.s. on the field.
"And it's really cool. And over again, I don't know what was happening backside closed doors, those coaches' meetings, but I know that part of what we were doing on the back stop that year, in 2015, came from Nebraska with (John) Papuchis. So it was Chizik's defence, just from what I've experienced with him, and from what I saw and in the manner we put that together, it seems similar he'south a guy who's open to hearing things, as you would hope that whatsoever nifty teacher is, right? Corking teachers are great students. And then he was able to meld what he had done in the past with some of what was working for J.P. out in Nebraska. And I think that's what we put on the field in '15."
Former UNC linebacker Shakeel Rashad (Photo: Robert L. Poston/CarolinaBlue)
Rashad: "It wasn't only 'bend don't break,' it was situational defense as a whole. Like I can say, beyond a shadow of a dubiousness that, and this is not a knock on any coach that I had earlier 2015, it is but to say that I think I matured a lot that season and I think a lot of it had to do with that new staff and that restart. But I didn't actually recall about situations. I was like, 'Okay, my chore on this play is to do this. I'chiliad going to go every bit hard as I possibly can and do that.' And I thought it was working. But I get to 2015 and the way we learned the game and the way we were progressing. I was like, 'Okay, cracking. It's third and six. Okay, this is their situation. Hither'south where nosotros are at in the game. Here's what they may try to practise. When we're getting into the red zone, okay, the quarterback is more probable to run it downwardly here. Here's how nosotros're playing coverages in the reddish zone.'
"And and then, situational defense was something we preached all the time -- third downs, red zone, right later on a turnover. And when you get into the red zone, 'Field goals are nothing' is I think the exact quote that Chiz will use. You desire to force a field goal attempt, and then y'all want to try to go block that thing. We blocked more field goals in '15 than I retrieve nosotros did in any year earlier that. And we saw it work out last night for Georgia. Alabama kept getting downwards in the low ruddy zone. And Georgia kept forcing field goals and late in the game, they offset putting up points and they win that thing. Field goals are huge, it takes 4 points off the board every time they're in there, and it's hard to become to the scarlet zone. And then the bend, don't pause was definitely a part of information technology. But I call up that falls under the greater umbrella of simply situational defense in general."
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