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Things you hated about Schiano...

A second vote for the Wild Knight

Also, the entire offense looking to the sideline to get the audible
 
Forgive me if I don't want to get a running start on being pissed off about what is potentially our next hire. We'll all have lots and lots of time to get angry about all new screw-ups if Schiano is re-hired. I'll wait and get pissed off about those when they happen.
 
Calling EVERYONE a "special" player. Calling timeouts with 40 second to go in a first half despite a 30+ point lead. Sticking with bad offensive schemes. Greg sometimes believes there is blood in rocks.. RUs version of the "red zone" was the "dead zone"
 
I hated his coach speak like this. It's a building process and we need to keep getting better until our better is better than their better.

GS was good for causing at least one loss a year just based on his own bad game day coaching.
He couldn't beat WV or figure out how to win the BE.
Too many meaningful games were losses - ie: Cincy 2006.
 
Not something I hated, but he never won the games he HAD to win.

Also, he had more cupcakes on the schedule than Cake Boss.
I know we needed that initially to just get to ANY kind of bowl, but it never really improved afterwards, and when it did, we lost (Fresno State, Maryland, )
 
The cutesy slanting defensive line. It carried over to Flood and continued to lead to long running plays surrendered via the gaping holes created.
 
Playing 2 FCS teams a year

Getting smoked in the 2nd half on the reg

Starting 1-5 in 2008 with a team full of NFL players

Undersized DTs
 
1) Having a very good RB on the sidelines while playing a RB with a bruised ankle and another on his 3rd knee surgery.

2) losing winnable games when they mattered most.

3) losing a very good QB in Tom Savage to the idiotic Wild Knight.
 
I hated Opening Day. It seems his teams always came out sluggish to start the season when playing a real opponent. Too many Game 1 disasters such as Fresno State and Cincy
 
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Jeez people, you really are a miserable lot. Can we at least wait to see WHO the coach is?
 
1. Play calling
2. Time Management
3. Reputation for being very difficult with NFL coaches interested in RU players except for Patriots (from what I've heard).

A good OC will fix most things and I think he's learned some lessons through his travels since RU the first time. Think of Pete Carroll part 2.
 
1. Play calling
2. Time Management
3. Reputation for being very difficult with NFL coaches interested in RU players except for Patriots (from what I've heard).

A good OC will fix most things and I think he's learned some lessons through his travels since RU the first time. Think of Pete Carroll part 2.

In his article on SI, he said he learned about how he could treat NFL scouts better.

If Schiano returns to college, one of the most drastic adjustments he’ll make is how he treats NFL scouts and personnel. Rutgers developed the worst reputation of any college program in how it treated NFL scouts evaluating its players, something Schiano looks back on and regrets. There were plenty of general managers around the NFL quietly chuckling when Schiano’s tenure in Tampa melted down, as he was infamous for limiting access and the amount of practice that scouts could watch at Rutgers. Schiano was mimicking the model of Paterno, who was notoriously difficult with NFL scouts. Again, by the time Schiano adjusted late in his tenure, it was too late to outdistance the reputation. “I didn’t see how that would help Rutgers, which was dumb,” Schiano says. “We were putting so many kids in the league even though it wasn’t a good visit. We could’ve put more in, probably.”
 
This is all so true. People whined incessantly about all this stuff.

What's sad is that people don't understand that this thread isn't judging Schiano at all. It's judging ourselves. There's a reason we say that we eat our own.

Someone should start a thread where we guess what habits the next coach will have that everybody will start complaining about. Coach-speak is always right up near the top of the list, despite the fact that all coaches do it (except coach Wilson).
 
Micromanaging the timeouts with a 30pt+ lead is a good one. Inability to defend the spread offense. The Wild Knight.
 
Not accepting that penalty against South Florida....
That was pretty bizarre. I was sitting next to Sam Johnson's dad and saw that Schiano decided to refuse the penalty that would drive USF back another 5 yards for the field goal try. A true WTF moment.
 
If coach Schiano returns I have only one piece of advice - keep the notepad in the locker room, keep your head up at all times and focus on the game every second on Saturdays.
 
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