“Has a coach ever been more important to a school than Greg Schiano is to Rutgers?”
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Maybe something like the University of St. Francis in Illinois. If your response is "who?", then you understand what Rockne meant to ND.
He's the closest to Schiano? A guy who brought a school from nowhere to the start of a decade of dominance in the sport is "close" to Schiano?
I'm not even sure how Schiano is even in the discussion for the thread title. I think he's done a good job but the answer to the question is, "yes, there have been many".
Greg Schiano is more important to Rutgers than John Wooden was the UCLA?
paterno to Penn state?
I like Schiano. I think he’s the guy we need today. But he’s not even the best coach that Rutgers has ever had. That man would be John Bateman. He went 73-51 at Rutgers and literally… LITERALLY… wrote the book on football tactics. The man was a PhD and assistant coach to Lou Little at Columbia before coming to Rutgers. They don’t even MAKE EM that impressive anymore
people tend to forget things like you mentioned.
Some just claim they never felt that way, it was others: not them.
I was sad to see Greg leave for the pros , but I wasn't very sad about it because I felt (by 2011) Schiano was the type of HC that would have a winning program every year , but not at the elite level I wanted.
So though I liked Greg as the HC, I felt to be among the best Rutgers needed a change.
Many complained about Greg's salary compared to production, I didn't think he was overpaid and felt he recruited the type of talent that could make RU an elite program , just thought his game-day skills wasn't good enough to make Rutgers an elite program .
The change came, but the administration cheeped out and it was back to the dumpster again .
To be fair, the OP merely reposted an online article without commentary. And it’s not entirely without interest to RUFB fans.
But I obviously agree that hero-worship of coaches, or athletes, entertainers, politicians, etc. is always a joke. A really bad joke.
A firefighter running into a burning building ro save lives is a hero. A soldier that dives on a grenade to save others’ lives is a hero. A person that dives into rushing floodwater to try to save someone is a hero. But even those real heroes should not be worshipped - adulation is still not appropriate even for them.
nope when he left i was bummed big time. i knew things would change for the worse for a long time. i knew flood pretty well obviously and liked him but we knew he was not the guy. then Ash toll control and totally ran it into the ground. thank God greg is back.
Yes thankfully Greg is back.
When Greg left I thought Rutgers would pay around what he was making to the new HC, but they went on the cheap and got what they paid for , ruining what Schiano built .
I put my feelings as Schiano gave me high expectations and fell a little short of what kind of program I came to expect RU to have , because of how Greg made it into a constant winner starting in 2005.
By 20O9 I expected a BCS bowl team and when Greg left I thought Rutgers would bring in someone who would do what Greg failed to accomplish.
Flood was able to use Schanio's players to win , but as they left you could see the drop in overal talent he was bringing in.
Ash was a Terry Shea type disaster
Bowden was my first thought. I went back and took a look. The 3 years before he arrived, FSU was 0-11, 1-10, 3-8. This would be like Schiano taking over for Shea and eventually winning a couple national championships.
The Schiano boot lickers would counter that FSU was in a much easier conference and that GS has done a better job than Bobby ever did just by getting to 6-6 last year
schiano is a rutgers god no other way to say it. the country has taken notice. go RU.
