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We need you BACK on the Banks!

Coaching. Providing guidance, support, knowhow, spirit and lots of heart.

Here's hoping...we turn it around like we did in around 2005.

Here's hoping that us older geezers live to see Rutgers match / exceed the 2005-2012 glory years.

Here's to all Rutgers players, fans / alums: L'Chaim / Go Scarlet!

MO
 
We need you BACK on the Banks!

Coaching. Providing guidance, support, knowhow, spirit and lots of heart.

Here's hoping...we turn it around like we did in around 2005.

Here's hoping that us older geezers live to see Rutgers match / exceed the 2005-2012 glory years.

Here's to all Rutgers players, fans / alums: L'Chaim / Go Scarlet!

MO

Good grief
 
If this works, I migtt write one to Santa, or maybe Donald Trump.

Anyone else? Who would you write one of these for?
 
This team needs more then just them and Ash needs to channel some of Bateman and Burns' coaching skills for the RU FB program to start improving like we all want.
Heck I'll even throw in Schiano, even though his teams didn't reach the heights we expected.
In the beginning of his HCing career, Greg's teams weren't anything to brag about.
But he did bring respectability to the program after being 2-9 & 1-11 his first two years.
 
Just because they were good players doesn't mean they would be good coaches.


RR wasn't a good player...HE WAS GREAT!

Brian Leonard wasn't a great player....he was the heart / soul of the team / came back for his senior year to help us to the L'ville game- and our pinnacle.

Just because these players were here, still love the game / love Rutgers...doesn't mean that they can't relate to today's players either.

What Ph.d. program did Drew come from?

IMO it's part passion, part inspiration, a large part perspiration (take off on Yogi's famous quote) / a lot of learning / paying your dues. Both RR / BL have played at the highest level (NFL)...and I think having them around / involved in recruiting / coaching would be a learn on the job for them as well as bring high visibility to our recruits / Rutgers.

MO
 
We need you BACK on the Banks!

Coaching. Providing guidance, support, knowhow, spirit and lots of heart.

Here's hoping...we turn it around like we did in around 2005.

Here's hoping that us older geezers live to see Rutgers match / exceed the 2005-2012 glory years.

Here's to all Rutgers players, fans / alums: L'Chaim / Go Scarlet!

MO
I think the same way...were getting too old to wait on 5 yr rebuilds that aren't even guaranteed?? My favorite season...Fall is ruined by the turn of events on the RU gridiron!!! We deserve better...
 
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Some of the best players I have ever known have been some of the worst coaches I have encountered.
 
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Those Schiano teams were LOADED and I mean LOADED with NFL talent. And a lot of it was coaching and developing players in my opinion. Rice and Leonard were not 5 star recruits. If you look at that team ...

Rice - NFL
Leonard - NFL
Zuttah - NFL
C. Stephenson - NFL
D. Stapleton - NFL
Britt - NFL
Underwood - NFL
C. Greene - NFL
Both McCourty's - NFL
J. Porter - NFL
D. Roberson - NFL
E. Foster - NFL
C. Harris - NFL
M. Teel - NFL
J. Westerman - NFL
B. Renkhart - NFL (Practice Squad)
K. Malast - NFL
K. Brock - NFL
K. Haslam - NFL


That's insane. On our current squad, D. Hamilton and J. Grant are the only players who could even sniff an NFL Roster.
 
Having been a student during the Bateman years, I wouldn't put him in the same universe as Burns. Bateman achieved a decent winning percentage coaching against Lehigh, Lafayette, Delaware, Princeton, and Boston U.
 
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