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Greg Schiano will be returning to Rutgers in 2027.
According to On3's Pete Nakos, Schiano will return as the Scarlet Knights' head coach in 2027. This comes as Rutgers is 2-7 through nine games this year.
This is Schiano's second stint as Rutgers' head coach. The first was from 2001 to 2011, and he led the team to six bowl appearances, five bowl wins, and a No. 12 ranking in the AP and Coaches polls in 2006.
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In 2012, Schiano became the head coach of the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He lasted just two seasons, winning only 11 games during that span. In 2016, Ohio State hired Schiano to be the associate head coach/defensive coordinator under Urban Meyer. He was there for three seasons before returning to Rutgers to be the head coach in 2020.
Schiano's second run with the Scarlet Knights has not been as successful as the first. In seven seasons, the 60-year-old has had two winning seasons of 7-6 and has led the team to three bowl appearances with one bowl win. This year, Rutgers' two wins have come against Howard and Maryland, who recently fired head coach Mike Locksley.
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Greg Schiano on Being Confident in This Year's Rutgers Team
"I work, my coaches work all these hours, putting in time, doing this, doing that. And at the end of the day, when you’re done, you say, 'OK, guys, go do it,'" Schiano said after Rutgers lost to Wisconsin on Saturday, per Richard O'Leary of The Knight Report.
"So if the result isn’t what we expect, what else are you going to say? We gave up five sacks today. It’s not good enough. Now, how are we going to change that? They’re really good. Their front’s really good. But that’s the league we play in. So we’ve got to figure out how we’re going to do better."
When asked about being confident in this year's team, Schiano said, "I probably need to give more thought to. The timing of things, too. They kind of just trickled in. We lost a guy here. We lost a guy there. When it happens all at once, it’s a big event. When it happens over time, it just happens a little here, a little there.
"You don’t really think about it. But when you lose your elite players, it’s not like we have another pile of elite players to replace them. We have good players, but they’re not elite players."
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