WATCH: Rutgers players get hypnotized, do odd things in front of teammates

They say a struggling program has to be willing to shake things up a little.

Chris Ash has certainly done that so far. From his rugby-style tackling to his weekly non-football competitions, Rutgers has a far different feel entering 2016 than it did entering 2016.

Ash decided to crank things up a notch. He brought in a hypnogician during a team event.

The results were…special:

Hypnogician, Kirsch, visited last night to put on a show for our players… But ended up making the players put on the show instead ????

A video posted by Rutgers Football (@rfootball) on Aug 18, 2016 at 7:10am PDT

Now if Ash can get his team to believe it can rise in the mighty B1G East, he’ll really have something going.

Connor O'Gara

Connor O'Gara is the senior national columnist for Saturday Tradition. He's a member of the Football Writers Association of America. After spending his entire life living in B1G country, he moved to the South in 2015.