North Carolina defensive coordinator Gene Chizik is in no rush to reacquire the head coach title, but wouldn’t be against the idea he recently told the Associated Press.

Chizik won 33 games, including the 2010 BCS National Championship, in four years at Auburn from 2009-12 before being fired following a winless SEC campaign during his final season.

“I’m not looking to be a head coach,” Chizik said. “I’ve been there and done that. If the opportunity arises again, then that’s great. I’ll look at it. If it doesn’t, I won’t bat an eyelash. I’m having a blast. I love right now getting back into having the defense fully mine.”

During his stint on the Plains, Chizik’s name was thrown through the mud many times amid several NCAA investigations — including allegations of academic fraud and Cam Newton’s pay-for-play saga in 2010 — along with multiple self-reported recruiting violations.

“I feel like at times I got tarred and feathered erroneously, because I think a lot of people didn’t do their homework,” Chizik said according to the AP. “There were a lot of assumptions made that were absolutely false and incorrect. I stand by everything that I did. I have absolutely nothing to hide and I never will because I know beyond a shadow of a doubt I always did it right.”

After two years as a college football analyst, Chizik’s trying to clear his name and is hoping a return to the sideline in Chapel Hill to overhaul Larry Fedora’s porous defense casts him in a different light.

“I think what Gene brings to the table is the renewed confidence in those guys I think is the biggest factor I’ve seen to this point,” Fedora told the AP, “is that Gene has a very determined teaching progress of the way he wants to teach the defense and the philosophy of defense.”