Rutgers Head Coach Greg Schiano
About overcoming the 14 penalties…
It is really tough to overcome. Three of them on special teams which is one of the things we particularly talked about is getting penalties on your return teams on the road. It is just a bad formula, and you end up backed up and you get the crowd into it. Something you cannot do, and we got three of them. We played well enough in areas to win today, but that is certainly was not one of them.
About his thought process on the final drive of the first half…
Yeah, I can explain it. Tell me where the ball started? No, not in our own territory, deep in our own territory. If you have been around this game long enough, then you know we are getting the ball to start the second half. And it is a one-score game we cannot let it become a two-score game going into the half. So, we run the ball on third down a Kyle (Monangai) gets a big run. So now we are in kind of the area where if we get it near midfield, then we go into what we call T2. We got close, and then at the end we said we will take a shot. Into the wind that was about the max. We had a penalty again, and we were not going to mess around with it. The risk reward is always what you deal with. And I would do the end of that half exactly the way we did it because we made sure that we were not going to go make it a two-score game.
About what played a part in Rutgers’ successful run game today…
I think the players. I think Kyle (Monangai) showed up in a big way. I think the offensive line, some of the combination changes. I thought Gus (Zilinskas) got in there in the second half. We are going to keep playing as many guys as we believe can help us on the offensive line. We got a great challenge next week because they (Penn State) have a great run defense. Look, we are getting better. I know it is not fast enough, it is not fast enough for me either. It is very frustrating to go look at those kids. I pain for them. Because they are giving us everything they got and to have to have that result. But, we understand, I think they are a mature group, we keep talking to them about how we just got to keep doing what we do and eventually as long as you do not turn around, it is going to turn. And I believe that, I do. I think we are getting closer. Unfortunately, we have not put it together on all three phases yet….
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