Our rival is getting a new HC - Schiano to Rutger
B1G news in NJ football, as Rutgers tries to corner their man and wall off the Garden State. Schiano in play, according to numerous sources.
https://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/2019/11/greg-schiano-rutgers-reunion-gaining-momentum-as-meeting-is-expected-this-week.html
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:05 PM ^
Let’s just hope against hope that he does not fence the garden...
November 4th, 2019 at 1:00 AM ^
I get the joke, but with him in NJ and Locksley in MD, OSU, PSU, and we will have a much harder time pulling talent from that region.
Laugh as you will, but Rutgers has more NFL talent than us right now (removing Brady, because GOAT). Barkley was RU bound and Schiano would have actually gotten him.
November 4th, 2019 at 1:25 AM ^
Rutgers has more NFL talent than us right now? What does this comment even mean?
November 4th, 2019 at 1:53 AM ^
He means more former Rutgers players are currently active in the NFL, which I believe is technically true.
November 4th, 2019 at 3:30 AM ^
It is not. Michigan has 24. Rutgers has 11.https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2019-09-03/colleges-most-represented-2019-nfl-rosters
November 4th, 2019 at 6:12 AM ^
Is SHI about to get real?
November 4th, 2019 at 9:07 AM ^
You and your silly facts.
November 4th, 2019 at 8:09 AM ^
Fake News
November 4th, 2019 at 8:45 AM ^
Completely ignoring your laughably incorrect assertion that Rutgers has more talent in the NFL than Michigan...
Let me get this straight: Michigan doesn't get credit for Tom Brady (because he's...too good?) but Rutgers gets credit for Saquon Barkley because...he was committed there at one point and in your opinion would have stuck with it had Schiano been the coach? I get that right?
November 4th, 2019 at 9:02 AM ^
I hope it was a typo and you meant to say "NJ has more NFL talent than the state of Michigan." Then I could believe what you're saying.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:06 PM ^
I think this hire makes them the 5th or 6th best team in the East overnight.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:10 PM ^
The media be speculating on Schiano going to the NFL any moment now. His wife, she doesn't want to move to the northeast.
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November 3rd, 2019 at 11:21 PM ^
Top 7 in the division for sure.
November 4th, 2019 at 4:39 AM ^
They may have jumped Staee
November 4th, 2019 at 7:58 AM ^
I think we were all already taking that into account.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:07 PM ^
And watch out for Papa Koz - the knower of rivalries!
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:08 PM ^
Also one of Maizen’s 50 accounts.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:34 PM ^
Let it go my friend. Papa Koz is probably in middle school.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:37 PM ^
Marvin - That is a reasonable assumption until you see that he has been a member for eight years and nine months.
November 4th, 2019 at 2:35 AM ^
Oh, come on, like nobody's ever created an MGoBlog account for their four-year-old Future Wolverine. :)
November 5th, 2019 at 12:17 PM ^
Yeah Indy Pete--now.
Some of his posts in the early days may have gotten by most of you but several of us highly enjoyed his animated posts of Swiper and Dora The Explorer.....
My how fast they grow up......
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:07 PM ^
This is called a coaching Rutger
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:09 PM ^
to make sure that they can beat Princeton?!
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:11 PM ^
probably a smart hire for them... guy was responsible for the greatest period in Rutgers football history.
tough to go back again and recapture what they had previously though.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:18 PM ^
They're probably the best each other can do at the moment. He really won't have expectations of recapturing that era. If they win a bowl game, they'd carry him off the field at this point.
I wonder how Tenn fans feel about chasing him off now.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:30 PM ^
Keep in mind, Rutgers wasn’t exactly great when Schiano was around - and wasn’t in the B1G East. (And, jeez, what would have happened with Michigan football if Schiano hadn’t reneged on his deal with Bill Martin?!?)
November 3rd, 2019 at 11:25 PM ^
Actually I believe they were, in fact, in the Big East. Just not the other B1G East, as you indicated.
November 3rd, 2019 at 11:40 PM ^
Rutger actually earned its "s" when Schiano was coach there. They went from typically awful Rutgers to a bowl-eligible, nationally-ranked, contend for conference title Rutgers.
Name someone else in the last half century who has done that at Rutgers other than Schiano?
November 4th, 2019 at 12:56 PM ^
How much of his success at Rutgers (2001-2011) can be attributed to playing in the Big East? The conference is a basketball/other sports conference and the football teams have all struggled in the bigger conferences.
Former members such as Miami, Virginia Tech, Rutgers, and West Virginia have all gone on to major football conferences and none have actually won a conference championship in their new conference. All those schools are in talent rich areas also (maybe not West Virginia as much as the others).
Maybe he gets them to respectable and bowl-eligible, however contending for a conference title I think would be a stretch.
November 4th, 2019 at 1:20 PM ^
I most definitely did not say anything about Schiano bringing Rutgers into B1G title contention. Yes, playing in the Big East was why Rutgers was ever a conference contender, but even those Rutgers teams would win between 3-5 games in the Big Ten. That's nothing that can be said about Rutgers since Schiano left, possibly except for Gary Nova's best season.
November 4th, 2019 at 9:55 AM ^
I mean Schiano did get Rutgers to 11-2 one year.
November 4th, 2019 at 4:44 AM ^
Ray Rice ain’t walking through that elevator door
November 4th, 2019 at 7:09 AM ^
Gold Jerry.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:17 PM ^
Terrible title, man. Makes it sound like a done deal. How hard is it to just type, "Schiano meeting with Rutgers about HC position"? Fuck.
November 3rd, 2019 at 11:33 PM ^
Not just terrible.
Turrible, too!
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:17 PM ^
The title of this thread is...not great.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:19 PM ^
If you like piña coladas...
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:23 PM ^
Tragically this comment will almost certainly be underrated.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:36 PM ^
Getting Rutgered in the rain...
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:40 PM ^
I would prefer if all evidence that this game ever happened was destroyed. Even if it is a dancing Norfleet
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:22 PM ^
What happens when two exes get older and realize they can't do better.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:39 PM ^
Interim Head Coach Enrico Palazzo, we hardly knew ye
November 4th, 2019 at 8:01 AM ^
I find that avatar disturbing. My daughter concurs.
November 4th, 2019 at 8:25 AM ^
Why is a cat eating pizza disturbing?
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:44 PM ^
I feel like I’ve been here before
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:48 PM ^
It will be back to "choppin wood"?
November 3rd, 2019 at 11:32 PM ^
That video has not aged well. Love the Ray Rice appearance. Plus, would they even allow a real axe on the field in 2019?
Also, I never realized how much a younger Schiano looked like a cross between George W Bush and Lloyd Christmas.
November 4th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
Lloyd W. Bush? George Christmas? "Lloyd Brady" caught on, so you might be on to something.
November 3rd, 2019 at 10:51 PM ^
2020 East Division Talent Level Power Rankings
1 OSU
2 UM
2 PSU
4 Maryland
5 IU
6 MSU
7 Rutgers