Head Coach Greg Schiano
GREG SCHIANO: It’s great to be here again. I feel blessed to be a member of the Big Ten Conference. At Rutgers, that’s something that early on in my tenure, the first time, going back to 2002, I can remember sitting in the room after my radio show with Tim Pernetti and saying, You know what? We don’t belong where we are. We need to get into the Big Ten. That started a 13-year quest. To be in here, we feel blessed. I really feel especially appreciative for Commissioner Petitti. The job he has done in a year, he and his staff, is just tremendous. To Tony, thank you for everything. I would be remiss if I didn’t thank our president, Jonathan Holloway. Between Jonathan and our Board of Governors, I have never felt like Rutgers, the university, the football program, have ever been more vertically aligned. That’s what it takes, make no mistake about it. From the top to the bottom, everyone has to have the same vision, and I feel like we do. Part of the greatest conference in college athletics, and excited.
We have three great players here today: Tyreem Powell, Mohamed, and Kyle Monangai. When you talk about Mohamed Toure, a tremendous football player and even a more responsible young man. A great leader on our team. Kyle Monangai burst onto the scene last year, but we knew what we had. As good a performer as he is on the football field, he’s even a finer young man. Tyreem Powell, I remember getting there in late December of 2019, arriving at Rutgers, and he was committed to Virginia Tech, and going into his home and talking with he and his family. He made a promise at that point that he was going to stay home and go to Rutgers. I made him a promise that we would prepare and develop him for his ability to reach his goals. To have him here on our team now recovering from surgery and going to be ready to go this fall is huge. Three great representatives, three New Jersey kids that I’m very, very proud of.
Looking forward to the season. We get started here. Our players arrive on Sunday and away we go. We have a Thursday night start against Howard University, and looking forward to that. Again, we have a long training camp ahead of us and one that we have to stay in the moment. I talk to our players all the time. There’s two great thieves in this world — the past and the future. We talk about chopping the moment. Chopping right now, being in the present. As their leader, I need to do…
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