I'm tired of this crap. I kind of wanted Flood out at the end of his horrible 2nd year, but then he did redeem himself, for the most part, with last year's 8-5 season. However, his complete loss of control of the players on this team are worse than any mediocre records or recruiting - all of that hard work by Schiano (and Mulcahy, to a large extent) to build a model program with a competitive football team, great academic performance, and strong discipline, in which our players almost universally were model citizens, has been undone.
I'd go back to all of that, under Schiano, in a heartbeat. This is a man we'll be erecting statues to, one day, for taking the most downtrodden, abysmal program in the US of A, and building it into a program that was the envy of many and far more successful than anything seen On the Banks since RU went "big time." We wouldn't have our beautiful new stadium or be in the B1G without Greg's energy, enthusiasm, dedication, discipline and vision. I so want that back. He had flaws, especially as a gameday coach, but anyone who read his inteview with SI after his Tampa Bay tour of duty knows that he actually learned a lot about himself by his failure there, and I think he'd come back here and do even better than he did in his first tour.
One last tidbit, which I debated posting last weekend when I heard it, but will now, in light of even more troubles with our program (and the Carroo news is going to be ugly). Last weekend, I had a conversation about the then just-announced arrests of 5 RU players (1 for the home invasions and 4 for the fight/riot) with a very, very (did I say very?) highly placed Rutgers source, who has intimate knowledge of the past 10-15 years of RU sports and Schiano's contributions. His comment was an unequivocal, "that kind of crap would've never happened under Greg's watch - NEVER." Whether we like Greg's micromanaging or not, one of the benefits was that he and the staff truly were all over these kids and helped keep them from getting involved in this kind of stuff and we never had to feel embarrassed by program, especially off the field. Sign me up right now for GSII.
I'd go back to all of that, under Schiano, in a heartbeat. This is a man we'll be erecting statues to, one day, for taking the most downtrodden, abysmal program in the US of A, and building it into a program that was the envy of many and far more successful than anything seen On the Banks since RU went "big time." We wouldn't have our beautiful new stadium or be in the B1G without Greg's energy, enthusiasm, dedication, discipline and vision. I so want that back. He had flaws, especially as a gameday coach, but anyone who read his inteview with SI after his Tampa Bay tour of duty knows that he actually learned a lot about himself by his failure there, and I think he'd come back here and do even better than he did in his first tour.
One last tidbit, which I debated posting last weekend when I heard it, but will now, in light of even more troubles with our program (and the Carroo news is going to be ugly). Last weekend, I had a conversation about the then just-announced arrests of 5 RU players (1 for the home invasions and 4 for the fight/riot) with a very, very (did I say very?) highly placed Rutgers source, who has intimate knowledge of the past 10-15 years of RU sports and Schiano's contributions. His comment was an unequivocal, "that kind of crap would've never happened under Greg's watch - NEVER." Whether we like Greg's micromanaging or not, one of the benefits was that he and the staff truly were all over these kids and helped keep them from getting involved in this kind of stuff and we never had to feel embarrassed by program, especially off the field. Sign me up right now for GSII.
