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Greg Schiano gives opinion on college football changes, ‘injustice’ of past system

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Greg Schiano might be one of a handful who think college football is in a great place at the moment. The Rutgers head coach was honest about where the sport is and going when speaking at Big Ten Media Days.

To be fair to Schiano, most of the discussion surrounding NIL and the transfer portal is done in a negative fashion, especially when it comes to the “wild west” narrative. With the current system, Schiano wants everything to play out for a period of time before trying to make a lot of changes. Or making constant changes as far as an immediate reaction.

“Look, I think college football is in a great place, and I know a lot of people like to moan and groan about things that are different,” Schiano said. “We need to just let things settle down and figure out if what we’ve done, what the court system has done, is it going to allow us to kind of find a level where we can go out and perform, where we can go out and have the kind of teams and programs and leagues that we want to have?

“I think tweaking things too early — let’s see how it works out right now. We did a lot. Let’s settle down and see how this works. I know with the CSC there’s a lot of things that are talked about. All those things are great, and they need to be taken care of. I forever have believed that players should be paid. I always felt it was an injustice that players didn’t receive some form of compensation, whether it was a stipend or whatever it would be.

Greg Schiano says college football is in ‘great place’

“I’m thrilled where we are right now. I think that there needs to be some fine-tuning, but not major changes right now. Let’s see if this will work, and if it doesn’t, then a couple of years from now let’s change it, then. I do. I think college football is still incredibly popular. The fans love it. The players love it. The coaches love it. I can’t wait to get started.”

Schiano has adjusted with the times, but college football still comes down to the basics. At least, that’s how he wants to approach it. The good news is, Rutgers finally hired a permanent athletic director in the form of Keli Zinn from LSU, so it’ll give the football program and others more stability.

“Also, in this new day of college football, I would like to recognize, we have two assistant GMs,” Schiano said. “Assistant GM for finance is Jordan Wolkstein, who has done an incredible job putting all the financial end of things together. Then our assistant GM for personnel, Eric Josephs, who has been in that role with personnel since we arrived but now has additional responsibilities. Can’t thank them enough.

“Again, after all the changes that are going on in college football, it still comes down to a few things: Getting prepared, being tough, and then go putting it on tape. That’s what this team I think has done a great job of doing so far in this offseason in summer, and I can’t wait to coach them.”