Rutgers Head Coach Greg Schiano
Opening Statement
GREG SCHIANO: I’m proud of our team. Miami is a great football team. Coach Cristobal is a really elite coach. I’m just really happy for our team. They stuck with it. Kind of had all the emotions like a game like this could bring. Ran out early and then lost the lead and had the resiliency to keep fighting, keep chopping, as we say, and certainly it starts with the seniors. When we got here, there was a group of guys that we didn’t recruit, guys that decided that they were going to buy into what we were talking about and what we were suggesting they do, and they built the foundation of something. So I’m excited. I think they’ve laid the foundation, and see if we keep chopping where we can go with this thing. We’re in a great league. I think the best league in college football. There’s a lot of things going on right now in college football. You have to navigate that landscape, but I’m sure glad I’m doing it at Rutgers where I’m supposed to be. My hat goes off it our fans. It was incredible. All week. Not just today. All week, every activity we went to, 600,000 living alumni of Rutgers University, and it felt like almost all of them were right here in New York this week. We saw more people. Our players felt more accepted and energized by our alums and fans. And for them to turn out the way they did en masse today, it really felt like a home game. To the Yankees and Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe, we’re very grateful. The week was awesome. First class, everything they did. They’re friends. We’ve known them for a long time now. This is, heck, 15 years probably. Just really good people. First class. I’m glad that Miami and Rutgers could put on a good game for them because bowl games I think are still critically important. I don’t buy that they go away. If you were in that locker room seeing those kids celebrate, bowl games are really important, and that will be a memory for those guys. Most guys don’t go play after college. There will be a bunch of them that will never play another snap, and that will be their last memory of football in college. It couldn’t end any better. Again, my hat’s off to Miami. Tremendous opponent right down to the wire, but I’m proud of our guys.
Q. Hey, Coach, just carrying this momentum, you got a lot of guys coming back that made…
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