Could not agree more!
Schiano has proven abilities, beat several top 10 teams at RU. Has Pro experience which gave him additional knowledge.
He can also recruit with the best of them.
OK, lets stop rewriting history.
Greg Beat one top ten team and the other you are probably referring to, USF, was not even ranked in the AP poll at the end of the year.
After 2006, he had a below average conference record and very bad record against winning teams and BCS teams. We know the record was propped up with cupcakes. Nobody can dispute this.
After 2006, by his own admission, Schiano's failure to recruit Offensive linemen led to bad years, bad offense, and directly led to Savage getting pounded and then into a shell.
Greg did a tremendous thing for Rutgers in building our program, is a good man, cared about the players, and cared about academics. Personally, I liked greg. How he handled the EL situation was extremely admirable. But, making him out to be a super coach is just not fair or accurate.
Having said that, you have to ask yourself. Why isn't Schiano beating down the door to get back? He is talking to everybody, but Rutgers, and now he isn't getting the Miami job he wanted. Now Virginia. We are nowhere near his first choice, and several reports indicate his is not interested in coming back, why?
Reports he wouldn't work for Hermann, check that off.
Maybe he doesn't believe Rutgers is really committed to compete in the BIG 10. Maybe he doesn't believe Barchi is the president he can partner with. Maybe he sees the competition and doesn't believe he can make us competitive. I really don't know, but there has to be a reason.
If there was any mutual interest, this deal could have been done already.
Do you really want Schiano who has Rutgers low on his list? Are you really going to believe it at the press conference when he talks about his dream job, the wall, the state of Rutgers again?
Lets move on.
