He might be more valuable but a coach job is to win, you know how many great people have been fired. But here is a question if GS and JF were both on the open market, who would get hired first at a major school.
You made a good point.
I feel when Greg came back to Rutgers no other P-4 program was interested in him as their HC, as far as I'm concerned and maybe G-5s as well.
Schiano wasn't going to come to Rutgers unless Hobbs agreed to support the program better.
Hobbs didn't want to, couldn't find a taker with the type of support he was willing to give, so it was back to Schiano
with both knowing no one else wanted them and they reached a compromise both could live with.
I know many would claim there were better candidates, I say just look at how Hobbs acted like he wanted someone else and tell me why they didn't come.
Hobbs wound up hiring Greg only because Rutgers fans pressured him to when he couldn't find someone he wanted to take the job
I'm sure there were some willing, but not with what Hobbs was offering .
So everyone can B-M-C about Greg's lack of accomplishments, but for RU he's as good as it gets, for now.
Let's see if Tate and Zinn can do something and turn RU into a success story Indians seems to have become .
That means raising enough money to buyout Schiano , make the program support structure way better and become the type of program rising talent will look at and feel they can succeed instead of being wary to run for fear of failure.
It might just take until Greg has one uear left on his contract that they know RU is ready to go all out and because
the support is there to fund a rise like the Hoosiers are having now with a HC that took a chance on them rather then look another way because he didn't see a program willing to do everything it takes to win
Greg is a product of just doing part of what it takes and hoping the rest miraculously happens
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