Anthony Campanile to Rutgers?? Possible according to Mlive

Mlive is just quoting the NJ.com story.

Just my opinion, but Rutgers would be making a big mistake hiring a first time HC. It's a super tough job and asking someone with no experience running a program to learn that on the fly is just asking too much.

The Ash hire just failed spectacularly. Even Rutgers should be able to learn from that. 

They were willing to spend a lot if Schiano took the job. $4M for him plus $7.5M for assistants and support staff. I find it hard to believe that their next choice is a LB coach. They're willing to spend enough to attract a good G5 HC.

We will then hire Chris Ash to coach safeties and then slide Patridge down to lb coach.

3 of 5 years now someone on Jim’s staff is seeking new employment the week of the “Ohio” game.  

Your goal at Rutgers should be to be the best team among Rutgers, Indiana, Maryland and Michigan State. That's it.

Don't do it!!!!!

Good for him of true. It’s good for our program to have assistants getting promoted into higher level positions at other programs. That manifests itself in better assistants and staff members in the future. 

I’m told by a colleague at Rutgers that he is not that high on a the list. A majority of stakeholders want an offensive minded coach. 

His brother is the interim I think it’s be wierd if he took the job over from his brother who must also want the job.

His name checks out. Rutgers coaches are required to have a Jersey approved Italian name.

Rutgers has no fucking chance of ever being respectable. Dont touch that job with a ten foot pole. 

I'm still wondering why it took injury for Cam McGrone to become a starter.

I really don't know why anyone would want that job.  Even the very best Rutgers team of all-time finished no better than 3rd in the old Big East (without Miami or VTU)

Great talk.  Let's finish it next Sunday.

I can only imagine how much it must suck to be a Rutgers football fan. When Schiano is your best bet, and you can't even land him, you have real problems. 

Rutgers needs to use Indiana or Purdue's model. Hire an offensive mind that runs a version of the spread with trick plays to try to out scheme bad teams and hopefully limp to a bowl game every few years. Ash trying to run a pro style offense at a school like that was insane. 

They should hire a young head coach from a lower tier conference or FCS who has had some success. Would not go the Maryland route and hire a career loser like Locksley or an assistant from a school that is rich in talent. 

I think they should go after Larry Johnson at OSU...or someone should. 

Rutger should start a contest to win a chance to coach the team each week of the season.

They should move to the triple option. Their best bet to make noise in the division and have even the slightest chance to ever beat one of the Big 3 ever again.

Cool

If Rutgers hires me, i promise to use 99 percent gadget plays from the most random formations possible.  The defense will be a 1-8-2 with eight viper sized rabid linebackers and a 450 lb planetoid DT.  All special teams players will be from Australia or New Zealand.

I will even work on fencing the garden during the off season, at least until I hit the limit on my Menards card.

The idea that they're not just hiring a triple option coach is insane. I get that they don't feel they have the donor base to make a bunch of upgrades to their facilities and risk a recession leaving them completely crushed....so why not hire someone who can win 6-7 games a year without any of that?

Hire Navy's coach, be every Big 10 teams least favorite opponent, win 6-8 games every year and start cashing those big 10 checks.

Is a head coaching job so important that you'd go there?  You know termination awaits in a few years.  Why not wait it out for a better job?

https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/2019/11/white-flag-not-white-smoke-rutgers-kills-big-time-football-dream-with-greg-schiano-fiasco-politi.html

Pretty good article on the Rutger situation. 

*  Should get out of the Big Ten

* Schiano had a list of 100 players in the transfer portal he wanted to target and was already working on the incoming class

* seems he could not get a commitment to upgrade facilities etc..

The comments section show why Rugter will never get out of the situation they are in. 

Rutgers' choice is a triple coach, an FCS coach or a successful MAC/Sun Belt/CUSA school. The Buffalo coach, the Eastern coach or a triple guy.

Rutgers' position is so similar to Georgia Tech's old spot that its kinda crazy. You've got a school that is located near a lot of talent that they don't get because the school just doesn't want to spend the money it takes to be good at football. Georgia Tech won an ACC title and played in a couple more ACC title games running on a shoe string budget with wack ass Russell Athletic uniforms because of the triple. If you wanna be Aldi Brand, be the thing that people like buying from Aldi instead of the weird stale bread.

Wouldn’t wish the Rutgers job on my worst enemy. 
 

Their few remaining season ticket holders are waging war with the program over failing to get Schiano (how ironic, Tennessee waged a war over him for the opposite reasons)

I wonder how many more years the conference keeps them around.  I know they wanted the TV market but it’s a crap show up there.  
 

Probably more Michigan fans watching the BTN in NY/NJ than Rutgers fans  

Rutgers is in no position to expect to ascend. Sitting in the B1G East, Campanile would do better enjoying his current $415K/year salary and waiting for a DC job before jumping on a dead end HC position.