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Schiano is going ...

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by spnited, Dec 4, 2006.

  1. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    Bull. Big difference between coaching at a non-BCS school and a school that has a crack at a BCS berth, provided it wins its crappy conference. Schiano does it right, Rutgers wins the Big East title perennially and cashes that big check come January.
     
  2. Outta Here

    Outta Here Guest

    Temple football can not be saved. Golden may be a great man and coach, but no one will ever get to find that out while he's with that program.
     
  3. Columbo

    Columbo Active Member

    Rutgers has no shot.
     
  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    He's smart to stay. Ray Rice is a sophomore. Mike Teel is a junior. They are a young team that is going to be largely intact next year, and with a year of great experience playing under the spotlight. There will be a similar list of coaching vacancies next year--there are high-profile openings every year--if Schiano does decide to chase a bigger paycheck. In the mean time, he has managed to build something special at Rutgers and he probably just wants to stick around to enjoy it for a while.
     
  5. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Which is why you're arguing it.

    Miami in the 12 years prior to Butch's arrival: 126-19 with four national titles

    Rutgers in the 12 years prior to Schiano's arrival: 42-87-3 with one winless season.

    Rutgers in the 100-plus years prior to Schiano's arrival: One bowl game. In New Jersey.

    Did Miami lose a game 80-7 during Davis' first year? No. No it did not. All the recruiting violations in the world did not put Miami in a hole a quarter as deep as the one Rutgers was in.

    But you love Miami so no program has ever come farther faster. Good God.
     
  6. Columbo

    Columbo Active Member

    I guarantee you UM wins the national championship before Rutgers does.
     
  7. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Immaterial.

    If Miami won the national championship next year and the year after that and once again two years after that, it does not diminish the fact Schiano inherited a far deeper hole, nor does it diminish fact he accomplished more in getting Rutgers to compete nationally than Davis did in getting a national title-worthy program to ONCE AGAIN win the national title.
     
  8. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    FYI Ragu: Teel is a red-shirt sophomore. And the frosh receiver Kenny Britt is going to be very good.

    And the top LB in NJ (top 10 in the country) has committed to Rutgers and the 6-6, 345-pound OT from Piscataway (top 5 in the country) is down to RU and Ohio State and has been quoted as saying "maybe walking to college isn't a bad idea." Five years ago, those players don't even think about Rutgers.
     
  9. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Stand corrected on Teel. And Britt is already pretty good. He had a great game against W. Virginia.

    That's the thing about Rutgers. They have never been able to recruit. New Jersey isn't a huge football state, but the best players from the state were always Penn State (or Syracuse, or somewhere else) bound. Schiano is not only getting some of those kids now, he's had a great deal of success recruiting in Florida--particularly in the areas around Miami.
     
  10. spnited

    spnited Active Member

    Right now, Ragu, there are NJ kids starting at USC, Ohio State, Miami, Fla. State, Maryland, Boston College, Penn State, Nebraska etc....kids who Schiano could not get 3 or 4 years ago who now would most likely give Rutgers a serious look.
     
  11. Oz

    Oz Well-Known Member

    What Schiano has done at Rutgers is nothing short of amazing. What he's done there is akin to what Bill Snyder did at Kansas State, which statistically was the worst college football program all-time when hired there in 1989. Snyder came within a Big 12 title game loss in 1998 to a shot at the national title.

    Schiano could do the same at Rutgers, but should have a much easier sell given its location.
     
  12. Columbo

    Columbo Active Member

    If you have no ambition, I suppose.

    Rutgers will never get better than this season.
     
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