AthlonSports.com article: 5 possible landing spots for Greg Schiano

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Schiano is most qualified to be a DC somewhere. HC in the NFL is above him and HC at the college level reveals a ceiling that's too low.
 

RU4Real

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This article feels like a setup, i.e. "let's talk about Greg Schiano returning to Rutgers and throw in some random other teams".

Miami seems to be doing better than expected this year. Golden may forestall his judgment until after the 2016 season. Schiano would fit into the Auburn football culture like a stripper at a Cub Scout meeting. Iowa State? There's no decent pizza for like a thousand miles.
 

PhilaPhans

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I have no care for the Schiano rumors right now, because Flood is our coach.

That being said, I did have a question about Schiano and his D. The D we ran in the Big East was pretty much put into place to try and battle teams like WVU who ran the spread. Do you think Greg would easily adapt to the different style of the B1G if he was a coach at Rutgers or Illinois or whereever?
 
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NBKnight

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This article feels like a setup, i.e. "let's talk about Greg Schiano returning to Rutgers and throw in some random other teams".

Miami seems to be doing better than expected this year. Golden may forestall his judgment until after the 2016 season. Schiano would fit into the Auburn football culture like a stripper at a Cub Scout meeting. Iowa State? There's no decent pizza for like a thousand miles.

It is still early on the season to say too much about the Canes, they almost had an epic collapse against Neb. As the article says, let's see what happens the next few weeks.
 

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I have no care for the Schiano rumors right now, because Flood is our coach.

That being said, I did have a question about Schiano and his D. The D we ran in the Big East was pretty much put into place to try and battle teams like WVU who ran the spread. Do you think Greg would easily adapt to the different style of the B1G if he was a coach at Rutgers or Illinois or whereever?

I thought schiano was awful against the spread. Think his style sets up better for the BIG.
 

PhilaPhans

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I didn't say how good it was against the spread, but his concept was to get smaller, speedier guys at each level and we couldn't hold up to bigger, stronger lines to save our lives. That's why I'm questioning it.
 

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I didn't say how good it was against the spread, but his concept was to get smaller, speedier guys at each level and we couldn't hold up to bigger, stronger lines to save our lives. That's why I'm questioning it.
Smaller and quicker isnt for the spread offenses it's for Pro style offenses. Jimmy Johnson was behind it and brought it to the Cowboys
 

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Whatever it's perceived purpose, his D was excellent vs traditional offenses. That's how we were able to battle teams like B1G teams like Illinois and MSU while in the BE and still building our roster. I remember with fondness Illinois failing to pass midfield the entire game.

Then I think about Russo and throw up a little in my mouth.

If GS came here, took over the D and hired a top offensive guy like Fridge, I think we'd be pretty satisfied for the most part with the result. We'd still get beat by teams that run the spread though lol.
 
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PhilaPhans

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Smaller and quicker isnt for the spread offenses it's for Pro style offenses. Jimmy Johnson was behind it and brought it to the Cowboys

Yes, that was the misunderstanding on my part. Thanks for clearing it up. I assumed it was more to battle the Navy and WVUs of the world that we would have trouble with.

I miss the attack style that we used. I just hope we could use something like that with 300 pounders up front like we have now.
 

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I didn't say how good it was against the spread, but his concept was to get smaller, speedier guys at each level and we couldn't hold up to bigger, stronger lines to save our lives. That's why I'm questioning it.

I think getting smaller, speedier guys were his choice because he valued speed. If he could have recruited the big/fast combo then he would have preferred that (obviously). But the level of player he was recruiting was usually either big or fast and he valued speed over size. Having speed all over the field was his way of compensating for lack of size.

His D was definitely better suited to combat a pro-style offense. The spread destroyed his D's. he couldn't handle the WVU spread read-option and he couldn't handle Concy's spread pass offense. I'll never forget watching that season opening game against Cincy when Greg was calling zone blitzes and having DE's drop into coverage while Gilyard and Armond Binns ran crossing routes behind them.

As for the article, I think he could go to USF or UCF and get paid pretty well and run the type of program he wants.
 

rutgersdave

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MAL359 likes Flood's defense. Wait, what defense?

Dumb article, doesn't even include Virginia.
 

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AreYouNUTS

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Auburn? No way the boosters at an SEC school would be able to deal with Greg. Just don't see it and it's kinda funny that they even go there IMHO.
 
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Gus malzahn is a phenomenal coach. If auburn is stupid enough to part with him we should be at his doorstep the second he gets home
Probably we should just hijack his plane midair like they do in Air Force One.
 

Blitz8RU

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I have no care for the Schiano rumors right now, because Flood is our coach.

That being said, I did have a question about Schiano and his D. The D we ran in the Big East was pretty much put into place to try and battle teams like WVU who ran the spread. Do you think Greg would easily adapt to the different style of the B1G if he was a coach at Rutgers or Illinois or whereever?

Did you watch his defenses at Tampa Bay? Those were pretty good. In the Big Ten he'll be able to get better blue chip athletes on D. If he comes back our D should be top 30 most years.
 
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That writer lost all credibility for me when he said, "Schiano is a very good gameday coach." That wrong-headed comment alone disqualifies the writer to know anything regarding Schiano.
 
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Did you watch his defenses at Tampa Bay? Those were pretty good. In the Big Ten he'll be able to get better blue chip athletes on D. If he comes back our D should be top 30 most years.

Yes but did you see his OFFENSES at Tampa Bay? The problem is always the same with schiano. Great defense and sh*tty crippled offenses.
 
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I have no care for the Schiano rumors right now, because Flood is our coach.

That being said, I did have a question about Schiano and his D. The D we ran in the Big East was pretty much put into place to try and battle teams like WVU who ran the spread. Do you think Greg would easily adapt to the different style of the B1G if he was a coach at Rutgers or Illinois or whereever?

In 2010, spread teams shredded Rutgers D (although that was also one of the years he didn't call defensive plays - but that's another story). So what did he do the following year? He was smart enough to reflect on the bad season and figured, he needed to make his team faster. So, he moved Greene from Safety to LB, moved Rowe from Corner to Safety, moved Cooper from WR to Corner, etc etc.

This was proof that Greg is able to easily adopt and adjust.
 
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Yes but did you see his OFFENSES at Tampa Bay? The problem is always the same with schiano. Great defense and sh*tty crippled offenses.
Agreed! But if Schiano has mellowed a little bit where he can stomach a really good OC to come in and build a potent offense This could be a good thing. Schiano, Knows NJ and all the political BS that goes on here. He was a great disciplinarian with his teams. When he came to RU he was young and untested, he is older and presumably wiser now. He really may be the only one who can get this program back on track.
In anycase, RU has to be decisive no matter what they do. They have to either keep flood or fire him at the end of season. if they go the new coach route, Julie better have a list of 10 people who she can call or else we may be settling for one of floods assistant coaches as our next head coach.
 
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In 2006, I watched Rutgers have one of the best defenses I have ever seen in college football. I am convinced that defense could have gone toe to toe with anyone in the country. It's too bad Teel was still wet behind the ears. Otherwise that was a serious national contender team.

We've never sniffed any thing close since.

So, for those knocking Greg - if the pieces are there, he's a pretty darn good coach. There is ample empirical evidence to prove it.
 
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He makes $3.85 million per year.

I don't know if they are dumb enough to dire him however.

Yea he makes coin --- BUT --- I'm pretty sure a proven commodity like him could draw some dollars. Hell, I'd donate a heck of alot for Gus freakin Malzahn!!! The "game" part of "gamedays" would be fun again!!!
 

RU_DIO

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Schiano would be awesome if he was head coach, coached the D and let a good OC run the offense with no interference.
 
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