Greg Schiano
Greg Schiano
Gregory Edward Schianois the Defensive Coordinator and Associate Head Coach for the Ohio State Buckeyes football team. He served as the head football coach at Rutgers University from 2001 to 2011 and as head coach of the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 2012 to 2013...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth1 June 1966
CityWyckoff, NJ
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We're going to do our best to maintain possession of the football. It doesn't mean just running the ball, but being efficient in our passing game and play a little keep away. That is part of our plan. But when push comes to shove, we need to play defense against a very good offense, and our guys are ready to do that.
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When you turn the ball over four times, you don't have a chance to win. We played pretty good football when we weren't screwing it up.
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I don't think about the 13 years, or the three-game winning streak. I think about one play at a time, and that's what I preach to our football team. I'm proud of our kids because they just continuously fought.
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HISTORY' means the goal this year was to go make history and win a bowl game. Rutgers has never won a bowl game. So we'll try to make history. That's been (the goal) since spring ball.
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We may still have as many questions after the game as we had before the game. But not much has changed. Last week we were 0-1, this week we're 1-1. This team still has to define itself.
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We have to adjust, certainly. That's one guy we couldn't afford to lose. What Eric brought was athleticism and speed.
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He looks like Underwood. He's lean, tall, and just goes after the ball.
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We just have to keep recruiting to the finish. That's it.
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I look forward to seeing that many more times to come.
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I am humbled and appreciative of the support shown by the leadership of Rutgers University. We will continue to build Rutgers into a championship-caliber football program that will serve as a source of great pride for our university and the state of New Jersey.
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We feel we have to get our quarterbacks as many snaps as we can in all the different things we're going to do.
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Everything to our players is new, unique, and exciting. When you've been to a bowl every year of your college career, by bowl three or four, you're like, 'OK, that's better than that bowl.' It becomes almost compare and contrast. Right now with us it's like every gift they receive, every event they're scheduled to go to, you see a genuine excitement on their face.
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Every game is its own game. We need to win this game. It happens to be against Connecticut.
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There definitely will be some special plays. It's never easy to prepare for an opening game with a new staff filled with NFL experience.