We went bowling year 2, so the results haven’t all been horrible. Last year, half the games were competitive, which for year three isn’t bad. As I’ve previously stated, this was always going to be a five year building project to account for time to recruit and develop the needed talent. Rutgers isn’t a player for the best portal players, became we don’t have significant NIL support, so it will take 5 years minimum, as we will mostly build via high school recruits. Portal players are there to fill holes where needed.
We are close to parity from an S&C perspective but more talent is needed to field a competitive offense. We still need WR#1 and TE#1 to emerge.
When you talk about the ineffectiveness of our offense, especially comparing with EZU, you have to take into account the difficulty of the competition. Otherwise, it’s a disingenuous comparison.
Maryland and Minnesota have left us in the dust because they’ve built the best football facilities money can buy, and have significantly improved their talent, relative to ours. We are in the process of doing the same. Greg Schiano told Rutgers that he needed a football facility to recruit effectively, and it was even written into his contract, but it was delayed due to COVID. So things are going to take longer than we wanted.
Taking Rutgers from 3 wins to 10 wins merits $10M, because it’s a huge accomplishment which will result in the requisite revenue as seats fill up.
They didn’t pay new assistants a lot of money to get rid of them a year later. They will get the time they need to turn this thing around, and it isn’t going to happen overnight, but we will show improvement on offense.
A lot there but let's break this down one by one...
We went bowling year 2 only because Texas A&M got Covid and every other bowl eligible team had made bowl commitments.
Half the games were not competitive Al, Indiana and Nebraska were competitive, Michigan state might have been had Greg not chickened out just before halftime however they carried a 2 score lead the majority of the game until we scored in garbage time to cut it to 6. Hanging your hat on beating temple by 2 in year 3 is one of the saddest accomplishments you can attempt to make.
One does not need 5 years to show certain signs of improvement. It does not take 5 seasons to apply discipline to a team. A team that averages 8 penalties a game ranked 126 out of 131 in cfb is the definition of undisciplined. We had countless off ball and pre-snap drive killing penalties which are exactly the things you look at in determining whether a coach is headed the right direction. As the season progressed, the team seemed to get WORSE, not better the way Greg proclaimed. Culminating in the 37-0 beatdown to Maryland, a team that was 0-3 in their previous 3 weeks prior to our game to end the season.
Let's talk about Portal players, no I do not expect us to compete for the very best transfers, not even great ones which I would consider a top 30-40 class however I do expect us to compete for good ones looking to start. 247 ranks only up to the top 68 "transfer classes" and Rutgers did not make that list. For context, that means 247 regards the transfer classes of such powers like Cal Poly, Nevada, South Alabama, Louisiana Tech, and Buffalo ahead of Rutgers. Now try telling me how after our fans including me just raised a million dollars for NIL that those squads have better NIL offerings than Rutgers... Now don't get me wrong, I like some of these defenders and we'll see if this guy Brantly can come in for a year and help the receiving core, but I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that more is left to be desired, particularly at TE
Not sure if you are trying to be cute by calling ECU "EZU" although it's an awful analogy. Teams hire coaches from mid majors ALL THE TIME. There's a reason why I keep bringing up the mutual opponent we played as to compare apples to apples. The fact that you dismiss the fact that they scored 31 more points on Temple that we did to them having a "senior QB" is about as salty and uneducated as you can be. Didn't we have that future heisman finalist you predicted at RB?
You keep referencing our need for a #1 WR and TE. I agree we do need one, and it's a crying shame that entering year 4 we still have no idea who that isor even if that guy is on the roster. I get you like Dylan Braithwaite, but to expect a kid whose next best offer was Richmond to come in and be a #1 receiver in any cfb program is a recipe for disaster, forget about the Big 10, that's terrible in the SWAC.
You keep bringing up facilities. Cool, they play a role I agree, where they don't play a role is the discipline of your football team and again I cite, T-126th out of 131 D1 cfb programs in penalties and of course, dead last in our conference. I'll also tell you Greg Schiano is not the only coach capable of telling a university that upgraded facilities are needed and getting them out of them. PLENTY of coaches are capable of this and demand this even. Coaches certainly within our price range
$10 million for schiano is such a ludicrous idea that it's not even worth discussing, it's a pipe dream. I'm honestly upset you didn't say something worth discussing like $6-7 million, the idea that Rutgers would pay ANY football coach more than Clemson is paying Dabo is pure lunacy.
Teams clean house often, Kirk C is Schiano's final play. If it doesn't work, Greg get's the boot, it's really that simple Al. And no, no amount of moving the goalpost and screaming on message boards is going to change that point.