For North Carolina defensive backs such as Marcus Allen, it’s difficult to walk across the practice field now without bumping ...

Gene Chizik is a guy who is never going to be in zero coverage and blitz somebody. That's not gonna happen. He's always gonna have at least one deep safety whenever he blitzes.

Most Popular “Gene Chizik is one of the best football coaches I’ve shared the sideline with during my 46 years of coaching,” Brown said in a statement.

But in 2012, just two years after winning it all, Chizik was fired after the Tigers went 3-9 in 2012. Still, they remained in Auburn. Gene worked in TV and radio, but he still had the itch to coach.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — There are scars on Gene Chizik’s career that will never completely go away, circumstances he can’t reverse, feelings that lingered for a long time about the way Auburn ...

North Carolina assistant head coach for defense, Gene Chizik, works with defensive linemen during the opening day of the Tar Heels’ spring football practice on Tuesday, March 1, 2022 in Chapel ...

Gene Chizik was walking out to practice last August when he noticed the overstuffed cars being unloaded by wide-eyed teenagers and their parents. The freshmen were moving into the dorms ...

Gene Chizik, who has won two national championships as a coordinator and head coach, was nearly hired at UCF before George O'Leary got the job and is still eager to lead the Knights program.

— As Gene Chizik sat on an airplane 10 years ago leaving Ames, he looked down over the town and wondered what he was leaving. Chizik had spent two seasons as the football coach at Iowa State ...

UNC’s defensive coordinator Gene Chizik watches his team warm up before its ACC championship game against Clemson on Dec. 5. Chizik, who plans to stay at UNC, has turned the Tar Heels’ defense ...

Auburn head coach Gene Chizik celebrates after his team's touchdown in the second quarter of the Gamecocks game against Auburn at Williams-Brice Stadium, Saturday, October, 1, 2011.