Anthony Campanile to Rutgers?? Possible according to Mlive
Title says it all. With Greg out they are looking at Plan B options and he is one of them. Linebackers seem to be playing well but not sure how much is him.
November 24th, 2019 at 7:43 PM ^
Could give new meaning to "getting Rutgered."
November 24th, 2019 at 7:44 PM ^
Would be a solid hire. He has been good in the recruiting game for us. We might lose some pledges if he goes.
November 24th, 2019 at 7:57 PM ^
Lose pledges? To Rutgers?
November 24th, 2019 at 10:11 PM ^
While they're not pledges...he never said they would be to Rutgers.
But I have a feeling you already knew that.
November 24th, 2019 at 7:45 PM ^
Even if it's all him, LB coach to Head coach, even of Rutgers, is a big promotion and change in responsibilities. Co-DC at BC looks like his highest title.
November 24th, 2019 at 11:15 PM ^
I'd care about this much less if the rumors didn't have such bad timing. The DJ Durkin-to-Maryland game week was a disaster.
November 24th, 2019 at 7:46 PM ^
interesting. thatd be kind of a kick in the dick to his brother whos the interim coach
November 24th, 2019 at 8:05 PM ^
Not really, since his brother (little, I may add) didn’t win a game.
November 24th, 2019 at 7:48 PM ^
It would be nice to go through one damn offseason without losing assistants to other programs.
If I were Campanile I wouldn’t touch the Rutgers job but the pull of hometown can be strong.
November 24th, 2019 at 7:50 PM ^
If we didnt have any coaching turnover for 1 offseason I think that would be a bad sign
November 24th, 2019 at 7:51 PM ^
Not to mention that it stinks to have assistants looking elsewhere in the middle of Ohio State prep week... I am thinking of Durkin.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:19 PM ^
And Mattison....
November 25th, 2019 at 9:35 AM ^
Yeah, I'm happy for him, and really like when coaches get to coach the team they played for (Harbaugh, Frost, Fitzgerald, Howard). I'm more frustrated with the timing. Really wish that poaching happened after the season.
It is a huge task to move from LB coach to HC in one jump. And a huger task to succeed at Rutgers.
November 25th, 2019 at 11:19 AM ^
Upvoting for huger
November 24th, 2019 at 7:53 PM ^
He is from there, he played there and expectations are about as low as you can get. What's he got to lose? It's such a huge promotion from LB coach that he almost has to take it. Make a few million and if it doesn't work out it's highly unlikely he'd ever go back to being a low level assistant.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:02 PM ^
It's really damn hard to win at a program like that. If he goes there and can't turn that program around (which is highly likely no matter how good of a coach he is) it would be a waste of 3-4 years of his life. He'd be better off going to a school in a non power 5 conference.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:12 PM ^
Whatever we think of Rutgers, from an LB coach to multi-million dollar HC of a Division 1 program. . . probably wants a careful look from a guy who went to the darn school.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:42 PM ^
haha. i wish i could waste 3-4 years of my life, doing what i love to do, at my alma mater, while pulling upwards of $10 million guaranteed. fuck his luck.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:49 PM ^
No dude.
You read MgoBlog for your life advice and do what a guy sitting in his basement having his mother toss him some raw meat down the steps every couple of hours says.
November 25th, 2019 at 9:49 AM ^
What's he got to lose?
A lot of games, his sanity, self-respect, love for the game of football, and some more games.
November 25th, 2019 at 11:37 AM ^
"What's he got to lose?"
- A sense of upward trajectory in his coaching career. The only coach who ever used Rutgers as a springboard to a better job was Schiano, and that was in the much easier Big East.
- Risking a permanent frown. Did you see Chris Ash? He looked like a kid who pooped his pants in gym class.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:38 PM ^
Maybe we can open up a spot for willie taggart
November 24th, 2019 at 10:14 PM ^
Hello: Devin Bush, Sr.
Either to coach LBs or to coach Ss and Partridge moves back to LBs.
November 24th, 2019 at 10:52 PM ^
So is 4-5 yrs at $3Million or so
November 25th, 2019 at 9:38 AM ^
:-) are you quoting D'antoriono?
November 24th, 2019 at 7:48 PM ^
Why in the world would anyone ever choose to be the HC of Rutgers? It's career suicide. You will fail within 3 years and essentially have to start all over as a position coach, maybe coordinator at a lower level school. Seems to me you'd have much better long-term if you rode out a position coach at a blue blood and bide your time for the right advancement.
November 24th, 2019 at 7:50 PM ^
Offer me a million per year and I'll answer that question
November 24th, 2019 at 7:52 PM ^
Leave my 6 figure job for a couple years of 7 figures to then go back to my 6 figure job? Sign me up!
November 24th, 2019 at 8:47 PM ^
Yeah, but you can get even more in the long run is my point.
November 25th, 2019 at 8:22 AM ^
How could anyone know that? Turning down a job at 5x your current salary with a multi-year contract sounds like something no reasonably ambitious person would do.
Aside from the obvious fact that most position coaches will never rise to become Power 5 HCs, Rutgers is far from the only job they could fail at. They could move up and become a coordinator and have that team struggle. Setting their career back without ever collecting the money they could get from Rutgers. They could get a G5 HC job and fail there. Even if they got lucky and landed a P5 HC job better than Rutgers, they could fail there too. Lots of places are hard to win at.
Losing at Rutgers should only set your career back if you do worse there than your predecessor. That's what Ash did.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:50 PM ^
If you're a position coach, it's an absolute no brainer. You're basically skipping two rungs on a ladder that you may never climb. And collecting a large multiple of your current pay.
If you might get a significantly better job in a year or two and are in a good place now, then passing on Rutgers could be a good move.
I think they should go after someone with past success as a HC, even if they are somewhat damaged goods. The names that easily come to mind all have ties to the state of Michigan; McElwain, Butch Jones, RR, Creighton.
November 25th, 2019 at 7:55 AM ^
It's not like the standards for success will be very high. Go to a bowl two out of three years and you can name your salary.
November 24th, 2019 at 7:50 PM ^
Wow, that would be a big step up for Campanile! I'd say it's a stretch for Rutger to hire a linebackers coach, but it's not like the program can get any worse.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:01 PM ^
I don't care what the money is, that is not a step up.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:05 PM ^
wait'll you have a family to feed. throwing out some guesses here, but making, say, $250K/yr and moving up to making 10X that, $2.5 mil/yr. as long as you don't do anything stupid so they can get rid of you 'for cause' and they have to pay you ala charlie weis for 3 or 4 years after you're gone, and you have set your family for life. that is a huge step up. i'd wish the guy well, just not a victory whenever they might play us.
heck, i'd coach rutgers for $2.5 mil/yr.
November 24th, 2019 at 9:10 PM ^
Do it for a lot less than that
November 24th, 2019 at 10:51 PM ^
A "family to feed?" All due respect, Campinile is doing just fine.
November 25th, 2019 at 1:56 PM ^
Yeah if someone is struggling at 250K they need to rethink their budget. However, I do agree with the people saying it is too big of jump in salary to pass up. Let's just save stuff like he has to feed his family for people who actually don't make enough to feed their family though.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
That's because it's not your checkbook.
November 24th, 2019 at 7:52 PM ^
It would be far worse for us if they went after Partridge IMO
November 24th, 2019 at 7:59 PM ^
In the comments on the article they have on the athletic someone mentioned Partridge, fortunately he wasn’t mentioned in the story
November 24th, 2019 at 8:00 PM ^
I like to think Patridge is too smart to take the Rutgers job.
He knows Rutgers is in division with Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State. The best Rutgers could hope for in any year is 4th place.
Partridge is loyal to Harbaugh and that loyalty may be rewarded handsomely in the future.
If it's a pay bump Partridge wants, then Harbaugh can arrange that. Rutgers is a death sentence, not a stepping stone.
Before Moeller left for Illinois, Schembechler did his best to convince him it was a dead-end job. Moeller didn't listen. Schembechler was right and gave Moeller a 2nd chance at Michigan.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:05 PM ^
Hopefully Don Brown is grooming Partridge up as his DC replacement in waiting
November 24th, 2019 at 8:31 PM ^
Yeah, I assume based on Partridge being Special Teams Coordinator in addition to coaching almost every position on defense, that he was our DC in waiting for whenever Don Brown departs. Partridge is loyal to Harbaugh (he said no to Alabama which means something) so I don't think he'd leave for that job. Get a few years as DC under his belt and then he'll start looking for Head Coach jobs.
November 24th, 2019 at 10:16 PM ^
Partridge may be a HC before being a coordinator.
November 25th, 2019 at 12:13 AM ^
Hard to blame Moeller however, who wanted to get out from under Bo shadow. Even back at M as coach, Bo was his boss, and couldn't handle the pressure, and melted down.
Btw. OSU was petrified of Moeller... He crushed them year after year.
November 25th, 2019 at 7:55 AM ^
"OSU was petrified of Moeller... He crushed them year after year."
Moeller had a very good record against OSU, but "crushing them year after year" didn't happen.
1990: M wins 16-13
1991: M wins 31-3
1992: Tie 13-13
1993: M wins 28-0
1994: OSU wins 22-6
November 25th, 2019 at 11:53 AM ^
I'd take 3-1-1 over 0-5. Relative crush.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:11 PM ^
Partridge is half disliked in the state of NJ. He was involved in the recruiting scene for Catholic schools (of youth players) and that game is dirtier than the NCAA and Jersey is a small state.
If you guys recall, his Rutgers offer was rescinded in 2015, and then Harbaugh hires him.
November 24th, 2019 at 8:02 PM ^
Fine with me. Need a vacancy somewhere so we can shuffle the deck and bring Miike Hart home to coach RBs