While at Central Florida in Orlando, Chizik frequently visited practice sessions of the NFL’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers studying the Bucs’ defensive scheme developed by then-Bucs head coach Tony Dungy, defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin and linebackers coach Lovie Smith.[5]

Chizik later employed a very similar scheme at Auburn, where he served again as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach from 2002–04. During this time, he had some of the greatest successes of his career to date. He coached in three bowl games, the 2003 Capital One Bowl, 2004Music City Bowl, and 2005 Sugar Bowl. His 2004 defensive unit led the country in scoring defense, giving up 11.3 points per game,[6] and the total defense ranked 5th, which is the same ranking the 2003 team recorded.[7] He garnered the 2004 Broyles Award, which is given each year to the top assistant coach in the nation. The 2004 Auburn Tigers football team finished 13–0 that year, won the SEC title, and defeated Virginia Tech in theSugar Bowl. It placed second in the final AP and Coaches polls.[8]

In 2005, Chizik was hired by Texas to serve as their co-defensive coordinator, assistant head coach, and linebackers coach.[9] During his time at Texas, the team won the 2005 NCAA Division I-A national football championship by defeating USC in the 2006 Rose Bowl.

You really think getting a new DC will turn the program around? Keep dreaming, because it’ll NEVER happen as long as we’ve got Lane Kiffin as HC. Mark my words.

exactly my thoughts. CLK is trying to make it look like a graceful exit when we ALL know that Monte K. would have been fired! Monte has nowhere to go and, at best, he’ll get a sh!tty D Line or LB coaching position somewhere.
To be sure, our offense has problems, but the O is not THE problem. Our offense can be improved with some serious thinking and adjustments by CLK and staff, whereas our defense would have continued to be a FAIL under Monte Kiff. We couldn’t even tackle in the open field?? I mean, come the f*ck on!!

No need to get the banana hammock all twisted, his time will come…lol

PS…. your linky is broken

now bucket is sleeping with the enemy…..LOL

Are you serious??!! Sometimes I think other SC fans are pulling my dong and just plain messing around when they write inane comments, but you seem to be serious….which is scary.
NO f’n way PC will come back for ANY position, especially not to work under CLK or Haden. Gimme a goddamn break and stop posting BS!

Kiffin is the coach that everyone loves to hate. If he stopped being so goddamn weaselly and acting like a whiny little b!tch and just focused on coaching he would serve himself well. Dewayne Walker and several other potential coaches can’t stand Lane Kiff. It’ll be challenging to get a firme coach, but I’m confident we’ll get a good one.