Dan Disch Out as North Carolina Defensive Coach
Dan Disch is gone, and with his departure the North Carolina Tar Heels have wiped clean the defensive coaching slate that they depended on last year. Disch was the cornerbacks coach and served as the interim defensive coordinator when Vic Koenning was let go at the end of the season. Disch orchestrated the defense for the disaster against Rutgers in the Quick Lane Bowl.
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Disch was let go the day after Signing Day, which seems to be common practice among football programs. Basically they kept Disch long enough to bring in the guys that he recruited and once the kids had signed, they cut him loose. How any of the signees feel about this is unknown, but an Ohio State signee called shenanigans on the Buckeyes when the coach that recruited him left for the Chicago Bears the day after signing say.
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For most observers though, Disch’s days were numbered when Coach Larry Fedora brought in Gene Chizik as the new defensive coordinator. Chizik represented a move to a new defensive system, the 4-3, and a significant move away from the guys that did things at Southern Miss. The 4-2-5 system that worked well down in Hattiesburg has proven unsuited to the kinds of teams in the ACC Coastal Division.
So this move represents that Fedora has accepted what it will take to play football in a big time conference with your own recruits. The Butch Davis leftovers that appeared to make the 4-2-5 successful are gone.
To build his own defense, Fedora has hired Chizik and also hired former Nebraska defensive coordinator and recruiter John Paphuchis. Disch’s departure leaves the door open for one more defensive coach. Paphuchis could be any position coach, so his hiring does not reveal who the next hire might be. The Tar Heels’ first test for their new ideas will be a game against South Carolina in Charlotte.