About 3/4 through that season, a tv sports panel picked who they thought would go all the way
One of them picked RU. At that point we looked pretty strong
Absolutely embarrassing
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One of them picked RU. At that point we looked pretty strong
Unfortunately, this year is not a good year with all of the high level openings and a dearth of quality candidates.
The math gets better on December 1, 2026. The buyout falls to $17,834,375.
As of November 2025, the scheduled base salaries for the remaining years are as follows (note that these correspond to the contract periods covering the respective seasons, and the 2030 season salary is capped at the final amount per the extension terms):
| Year | Base Salary |
|---|---|
| 2027 | $7,250,000 |
| 2028 | $7,500,000 |
| 2029 | $7,750,000 |
| 2030 | $7,750,000 |
That's a difference is $12,415,625 over 4 years, an annual savings of $3,103,906.25. Hire an up and coming coach for $4M per year, and Rutgers is only paying an additional $896,000 per year for a head coach. This does not factor in the lost donations and sales of season tickets as fans lose interest in the same old same old with Greg at the helm. In 17 years of head coaching, Greg has had exactly 1 season of more than 9 wins, and only 3 seasons of 9 or more wins. He has had a winning record in conference in only 4 years. He has not beaten a ranked opponent in his 6th year of the 2.0 era.
Asked Grok, and unfortunately, for Ciarrocca: His salaries are $1.9 million for 2025, $1.95 million for 2026, and $2 million for 2027. Rutgers would owe the full remaining contract value if terminating without cause, However, this is subject to offset if Ciarrocca secures comparable employment elsewhere, and mitigation requires him to seek new work.
End of next year would be a good year to get rid of this Grand Illusion of a coaching staff. Or maybe fire Greg mid year if sputtering, and let Ciarrocca be the HC for the rest of the year. In 2026, RU plays UMess, Howard and BC, then Maryland, Northwestern and Penn State. Lose all three of those games, fire him.
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Oh i think our big donors are delusional twits
Sounds wishful thinking
This only works if Keli can ditch the old donors and bring in richer more powerful donors of her own not tied to one year in 2006
I count 102 on the website (dropped into a spreadsheet).
2026 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
In 2020 it was 75, in 2023, it was 80, and he was the only Schiano, now there are 4 Schianos:
2023 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
2020 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
Ohio State has 71,
Indiana has 47
Iowa has 43
Seems to be an inverse relationship to numbers of coaches and winning. There is more money to be saved there!!!!
See above, good point.
Reduce the coaching staff, and even more savings. Time to end this nonsense is next season at the latest.
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He might prefer snookums.Easy, buttercup.
I'm the guilty one with the initiation of "Champ," but that was meant as a term of respect, sort of. He called me Skippy, which I take as a compliment since it is a good peanut butter.
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Maybe, maybe not. Read on. See the numbers I posted. Greg's spending on staff is out of control. He is hemorrhaging money with a bloated budget for KC (making $2M), a bloated staff (see above), and no results to show for it. If Keli shows the donors the cold hard facts, maybe they can get over their separation anxiety. It's nonsense to think that we will never find another coach that can be at least mediocre. Hire Mora. Hire a MAC coach like Jason Candle. Manny Diaz accepted $4M to be the head coach of Duke.
If they are perpetually latched onto a coach who is at best mediocre, with an oversized staff, and a larger injury list for each game, they are delusional. People need to get over their Greg separation anxiety.
So not as egregious as reported on the podcast but still very poor return on investment. If this was private sector his budget would be slashed and headcount decreased. But somehow he convinces the powers that be he needs more. Also doesn’t hurt when he had no one to answer to for an extended period of time.I count 102 on the website (dropped into a spreadsheet).
2026 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knightsscarletknights.com
In 2020 it was 75, in 2023, it was 80, and he was the only Schiano, now there are 4 Schianos:
2023 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
2020 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
Ohio State has 71,
Indiana has 47
Iowa has 43
Seems to be an inverse relationship to numbers of coaches and winning. There is more money to be saved there!!!!
See above, good point.
Reduce the coaching staff, and even more savings. Time to end this nonsense is next season at the latest.
Correct. But would probably let him carry around his Fisher Price plastic kids scribble board with make believe coverages on it.
Shelby saw the fake SHI headset Schiano wears for show selling on Amazon for $11.99 and free, one day delivery, batteries not included.
Wife got it for him for Xmas. He loves it.
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Doesn't staff include other things than just coaches? (I didn't look at your links to see what the exact roles were). Either way..yikes and wow. But i directionally knew this.I count 102 on the website (dropped into a spreadsheet).
2026 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
In 2020 it was 75, in 2023, it was 80, and he was the only Schiano, now there are 4 Schianos:
2023 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
2020 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
Ohio State has 71,
Indiana has 47
Iowa has 43
Seems to be an inverse relationship to numbers of coaches and winning. There is more money to be saved there!!!!
See above, good point.
Reduce the coaching staff, and even more savings. Time to end this nonsense is next season at the latest.
It "could" be that Rutgers lists people that may be listed elsewhere on other teams' websites. But the different with Indiana is stark:
Indiana Staff (35, Rutgers has 85):
the miracle was they pulled two Rutgers to win the game; their dbacks running into each other leaving Duff wide open and then the last play. the odds of those things happening in games are very very small
we got really lucky
nope, he's a great coach with a history to prove it
you'd have to be really be afflicted by schianopox to compare him to Greg
no, he doesn't and nor do some of the others here with comments. it's comical how dismissive some here are and especially with a HC who is really a MAC level guy
many did, the mantra was that he'd get the program respectable and then move on to a new coach to go to the next level. That was the prominent discussion at the time. Then someone thought it was a good idea to extend him which of course was dumbI don't understand why people didn't see this coming. When Ash got fired 6 years ago, they had a NJ.com poll and over 50% wanted an average to below average coach who will always be a bottom half coach in this conference at 14 or 18 teams. As I said 6 years ago, we should have gone after someone better.
Post in thread 'NJ.com Poll- Nearly 52% Want Schiano' https://www.on3.com/boards/threads/nj-com-poll-nearly-52-want-schiano.6556927/post-138759007
After 1st 2 yrs 3-20 (0-14)
03-11 Schiano 1.0 65-47 (28-34) Big East
5 non conference games a yr & bowls(5-1) 37-13
After 1st two yrs 8-14 (5-13)
22-25 Schiano 2.0 22-25 (9-24) B1G
3 non conference games a yr & bowls(1-2) 16-2
Career 98-106 (42-85) BE & B1G
33% win% in conferences.
The games he controlled vs lesser opponents 53-15.
Also: Bo Schembechler
Lance Leipold, who I am lukewarm on, coached at Buffalo.
Gary Pinkel: 113-73 at Missouri
PJ Fleck:64-42 at Minnesota
Matt Campbell at Iowa State
Dave Doeren at NC State
If you want to go Bo, you might as well go back to the Woody Hayes days at Miami of Ohio when it was the Cradle of Coaches on the late 40s and early 50s
Kelli needs to fire half of them including Greg's kidsI count 102 on the website (dropped into a spreadsheet).
2026 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
In 2020 it was 75, in 2023, it was 80, and he was the only Schiano, now there are 4 Schianos:
2023 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
2020 Football Coaches - Rutgers University Athletics
The official Football Coach List for the Rutgers University Scarlet Knights
Ohio State has 71,
Indiana has 47
Iowa has 43
Seems to be an inverse relationship to numbers of coaches and winning. There is more money to be saved there!!!!
See above, good point.
Reduce the coaching staff, and even more savings. Time to end this nonsense is next season at the latest.
Wouldn’t even matter because reaching that level is all that’s expected of him.
Creative Video Coordinator LOL. That guy is even more of a failure than Schiano, which Shelby didn’t think was possible.
It’s easy with AI to fabricate good defensive plays, good pass protection and a few punt returns on video.
Or just borrow the etch-a-sketch Greg gives to KC every week showing him our play for the upcoming game.
85 to 35 might be the score if we played them with the teams reversed lol.
Hobbs was a clown AD.
Pike is a joke.
The extension given to Schiano was an abomination.