Schiano in hot water...

[freescooter]

I love Lembo. He would be my first choice. Very good fundamental coach. Gets the northeast. Has a track record. Has beaten the bigger boys on his schedule on a pretty consistent basis. (OK, one of them is Indiana, but he still has beaten them and he beat Virginia this year and coming out of the MAC that's not bad. I doubt the Caveliers had that on their schedule as a loss) I don't get why people would prefer Clawson except that he seems more photogenic. Lembo has a better career record. But I think Schiano will return to college football and will be pretty successful in the right situation. Not, probably, Saban successful. But George O'Leary successful probably. He can recruit. He took a program that was the definition of failure, hadn't had a winning record in 25 years and turned them around. Part of it was he convinced the Rutgers people that they needed to invest in the program if they wanted success. As I said, Rutgers spend its first 15 years in the Big East trying to play 1A football on the cheap. That guaranteed failure. You could argue that the Ruts went a little overboard, but to some extent that's understandable when you're trying to play catchup.

 

[FAIRTIDES]

Are you sure of your timeline vis-a-vis RU's FB related financial decisions, Schiano's influence on those decisions and the start/finish of the BIG's courting and, finally, marriage to RU? I've come to think of the BIG's initial contact with RU as the catalyst. I think, years in advance of the actual offer, RU was secretly given a list off "requirements," (stadium expansion, improved FB profile, etc.) the completion of which, would lead to a BIG offer. I believe most, if not all, of RU's improvements would have occurred if I had been coaching. It seems to me that RU lucked in to GS. Not because he's a good coach. Clearly, he's not. But, he is a sly-tongued devil. A great salesman who was able to create a "buzz" which worked beautifully as part of the planned path to the BIG. The only way any of this, especially the financial decisions, makes any sense is with a longer view of the RU/BIG process. GS's salesmanship (some would say BS) was an important part of the process; but only a part.