Micah Clark
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He has coached at the highest levels of his professional. His career is certainly not a failure.
Who's to say he wouldn't win his fair share of those games?
NJ high school FB is very strong
How many of his fair share of games against West Virginia did he win?
Heck, how did he do against Cincy once Dantonio had them rolling and Kelly took them up a level?
I do not believe he will take any job that requires a huge rebuild. After his NFL debacle and the mess that occurred at Tenn he can not afford a failure. He would, IMO, have taken the OSU job if it had been offered because the program is intact and there is a greater chance of success. Obviously if he failed there he would also be done but I don't think he wants this type of rebuild. Too risky. Also, it is hard to return to a previous place. More often than not it doesn't work.
Greg is 53. Should he do a 5 year deal, he will be nearing 60 at the end of his contract. A 5 year deal at a low end of $3 million/year grosses him $15 million. That's enough to retire on, I think.
You think he would have recruited at the same level if he had the B1G to sell? I certainly don't. Greg is a very good recruiter. He would have done very well recruiting wise starting in 2006 if we were in the B1G. He would have had enough good players to compete with up to the top third in the league. Selling Rutgers in the watered down Big East was a much tougher task with the top players.
Anything is possible I guess but I just don't see him at this point wanting to take on this kind of a rebuild. When he was here every year he had a blowout loss or two to either WVU, or Miami, or Va tech and there was the WTF game that always popped up so there would be, with the schedule we have now, a lot of potential blowouts before he would even begin to see results. I just don't think he would even want to try it. Remember, he only gets an offer if we are again awful this year. Perhaps 1, 2, or 3 wins. If that is the case it means all the things the haters are saying about our lack of talent are probably true. This isn't the old Big East he would be aiming at it's the real BIG East. Too big a task to undertake. Too deep a hole to dig out of. Just my opinion.
You guys need to remember that no one...NO ONE...had the level of success that Schiano had with this program.
I've got a number of friends who stopped laughing at Rutgers football after the Louisville win. They've been laughing again pretty much since GS left.
Success against major competition, true.
The 2006 season was the one that built up expectations of greatness for the future after Greg
made us start believing Rutgers was becoming a good program.
But as for no one having the type of sucess Schiano had: Frank Burns had Rutgers a highly competitive program when he was the HC , even if RU was more of a D-1AA type of program and never forget the undefeated 1976 season under his leadership.
Without proper support his last 3 seasons weren't the best when Rutgers upgraded to a D-1A type of schedule
John Bateman is another one that can't be slighted when it comes to being a successful RU FB HC.
He did have a few losing seasons playing the D-1AA schedule Rutgers had at the time, but his overall record was a winner and his Scarlet Knights went undefeated in 1961 after a 1 loss season in 1960.
I'll give Greg credit for making Rutgers respected in the major program department, after years of being considered a joke.
He deserves praise for doing that.
But Burns and Bateman deserve credit for their accomplishments at a lower level of play.
"lower level" is the key part of what you're saying. Everyone appreciates what Bateman and Burns did for Rutgers football when its big rivals were Princeton and Colgate. I'm focusing on what Rutgers has done since its decision to compete at the highest level in college football. Handicapped by inferior finances, fan interest, facilities and history, Schiano made Rutgers a winning program and regular bowl participant. He sent more players to the NFL than anyone previously could even dream of.
Yeah...he could have done better. Beat Pedd St., West Virginia. And friggin Cincinnati.
And it's a long shot that he could ever compete with PSU, Ohio State, Michigan, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Iowa.
But no one can. We have no chance to out-recruit them here in New Jersey....or anywhere else.
2006 & 2007 teams would probably come in no lower than third in the Eastern division behind Ohio State and Michigan… Maybe higher with a home upset of either monster.
Rice would’ve been the story of the league despite Taylor.
Terl Britt & Brown would’ve destroyed a number of defenses
Mo
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Wow. So our best team in 150 years would be good enough to finish 3rd in our division (not conference). Man, do we have one sad history.
Our best team in the FBS era didn't even win the Big East conference that year.
It is what it is, but it doesn't have to stay that way.
Using in 150 years is extremely misleading. If you know anything about our history.
Schiano's Rutgers teams never beat State Penn because, well, they never faced each other while he was head coach. As for WVU and Cincy...agree wholeheartedly.
Kevin Malast is a good guy. He was one of many Michael Burton teammates that participated on a recent summer Saturday morning at West Morris Central HS, Long Valley NJ, volunteering at a charitable fundraising football camp that Burton spearheaded. A bunch of great guys.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nj...nnual-youth-football-camp.html?outputType=amp