Greg Schiano, the head football coach at Rutgers, has had two years of Cinderella runs where his program has burst onto the national scene after being an NCAA Division 1 doormat for most of the last few decades.
Well, those jobs that Schiano has passed up over the last 2 years at his alma mater, Miami, at Michigan and at other big name programs seems to be a horrible decision. I know Rutgers had something good, but it now appears it wasn't so much the program that was doing well, but a player (Ray Rice)...and now that Rice is making the gouda (E-40 word of the week) in the NFL, Rutgers has face-planted.
The Scarlett Knights are 0-2 after losing two home games to a smaller conference team (Fresno State) and a weak team from a very weak conference (UNC). Not the start that an up and coming program needs. I know Rich Rodriguez got alot of flack for packing his U-haul and heading up to Ann Arbor, but maybe he saw what Schiano didn't. That West Virginia and Rutgers are two teams that had a short BCS runs, but in the end the program itself hasn't changed. Instead, it was just a result of a few years with some great players (Steve Slaton, the old Pat White, Ray Rice) in the weakest conference (Big East).
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