Rutgers Head Coach Greg Schiano
Opening Statement: Really proud of our team. It’s pretty well-chronicled, we are a little bit beat up right now but a bunch of guys laid it on the line for their teammates, and I’m super proud of them. Super proud of our staff. They really busted their hump to get some things cleaned up and just a really good win for our program.
So I’ll try to answer any questions I can.
Q. It looked more like what we are used to seeing out of your team. What do you think the difference was today?
GREG SCHIANO: Well, we’re a little bit – just a little bit healthier, but I think the biggest difference is Coach Harasymiak literally stripped it down to the studs and rebuilt it in two weeks, which I don’t think he slept. He and I talked a lot, and I’m just so proud of him; the leadership that he provided to the whole defensive staff and to our team. The guys played for each other. That’s the biggest thing that came today is they just literally put it on the line for each other and that was what we talked about all week. We don’t really do themes around here but that became a theme. You know, Military Appreciation Day today. We had an opportunity to have a really special speaker. I’m not going to get into names and stuff, but he was a Navy SEAL, and he talked to our team about an exercise they do where you cover your head, they have a crazy environment and you have to take it off and you have to go and there’s one of you and five of them and you have to get across the other side of the room. In all his years, he never saw it done. But when you put five guys and 25 across the room, when they play and fight for the guy on the right and the guy on the left, they get across. I told our team, I said, ‘we’ve got to get across. We’ve got to get across the room. That’s the only way we are going to get this one done.’ That’s why at the end of the game we went over after we shook hands. We went over to the other side because that was the other side of the room, and the only way we were going to get there was doing it for each other.
Q. The defense has had some rough performances but your offense has…
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