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Greg Schiano is officially Rutgers’ new head coach: ‘I look forward to embracing that challenge once again’
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On Tuesday, a university Board of Governors meeting took place in New Brunswick and it finalized Greg Schiano becoming the new head coach at Rutgers.
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The eight-year deal worth $32 million to Schiano is now set in stone. After the meeting concluded, university President Robert Barchi released a statement:
“From the start we said we would hire the best football coach for our university community, our fans, and our student-athletes, and Greg Schiano is the perfect coach for this important job,” he said. “I commend Rutgers Athletics Director Pat Hobbs and Coach Schiano for reaching an agreement following very complex negotiations to bring on this new, exciting chapter for Rutgers athletics. We are all thrilled to welcome Coach Schiano. He is the right coach at the right time to build our Big Ten football program into a long-running source of pride for Rutgers.”
Schiano’s formal press conference will take place on Wednesday, Dec. 4 at 10 a.m. ET. The conference will be closed to the public but can be seen live on BTN.
“Today we open the next great chapter for Rutgers football,” said Rutgers athletic director Pat Hobbs in a statement. “Coach Schiano is absolutely the best person to lead our program. He brings a quality of leadership and integrity that will make all of us proud in the years ahead. I couldn’t be more excited for our student-athletes and our fans. A lot of hard work lies ahead, but we will all keep chopping together with Coach to achieve success in the Big Ten. We all know what the goal is and we much do our part.”
Here’s Schiano, after he officially became the newest head coach at Rutgers:
“Rutgers University and this football program have meant the world to me and my family,” Schiano said in a statement. “I arrived here in 2000 with the goal to build a program that would be a source of pride for the state of New Jersey and develop great young men. I look forward to embracing that challenge once again. This is a great opportunity for all of Rutgers to pull together to get us back to where we all know we belong. It will take everyone on this campus and in the state of New Jersey to get this done.”
Kevin covers Big Ten football for Saturday Tradition.