Zach Crisler has launched his young coaching career and is currently serving as a running backs graduate assistant at North Alabama.
North Alabama runs a three-man surface offense. The origin of the offense stems, notably, from Hugh Freeze.
“When I first got here in 2019, Ryan Aplin is actually who hired me at North Alabama, and obviously he played at Arkansas State under Freeze,” Crisler said on the show “Tennessee Two-A-Days.” “He kind of brought the tradition of the Freeze offense with a base out of 11-personnel, stuff that Coach Freeze runs.”
Vols Wire previously analyzed the three-man surface offense with Freeze and others from his coaching tree.
At Ole Miss, Trevathan served as a quality control coach in 2014 and as a graduate assistant working with tight ends from 2012-13. He also spent time as a student assistant coach at Arkansas State under Freeze in 2010-11.
Trevathan served as offensive coordinator at Pearl River Community College (2017-18). Trevathan hired Crisler to coach running backs at Pearl River.
Crisler came to Pearl River after coaching at Nettleton High School in Jonesboro, Arkansas during the 2017 season.
“Through the coach tree, the high school offensive coordinator was Clint Wilson, who was with Coach Freeze at Arkansas State as a student assistant in the quarterback room,” Crisler said. “That is when I got introduced to the Freeze offense, was working high school ball. We dummied it down at the high school level, but it was still the three-man surface and kind of dictate the box and take the RPOs when they are given.”
The entire show with Crisler can be listened to here or below.
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