Gregory Edward Schiano was born on June 1,1966 and is an American football coach.
32 Facts About Greg Schiano
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Greg Schiano is the head football coach at Rutgers University, a position he held from 2001 to 2011 and resumed before the 2020 season.
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Greg Schiano was born and grew up in Wyckoff, New Jersey, and attended Ramapo High School.
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Greg Schiano began his coaching career in 1988 as an assistant coach at Ramapo High School for the Raiders football team.
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From 1996 to 1998, Greg Schiano was an assistant coach in the NFL with the Chicago Bears.
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Greg Schiano served as defensive coordinator for the University of Miami Hurricanes from 1999 to 2000.
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On December 1,2000, Greg Schiano accepted the head coaching position at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.
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Greg Schiano was given the task of turning around a struggling program that had been without a bowl game appearance since the 1978 Garden State Bowl, and had just four winning seasons since 1980.
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Greg Schiano recruited New York native Ray Rice, who was considered the top running back in the tri-state area.
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Just prior to the game, Greg Schiano was offered a new contract, extending his contract through the 2012 season.
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Greg Schiano's team experienced tragedy in 2010, when defensive tackle Eric LeGrand suffered a spinal cord injury.
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Greg Schiano has been credited for his involvement in LeGrand's recovery, essentially treating LeGrand's family like his own and assisting the family in any way needed, and being with LeGrand every day he was in the hospital.
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Greg Schiano led the team to winning seasons and bowl game berths in six of his final seven seasons, with wins in the final five bowl games.
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On January 26,2012, Greg Schiano accepted his first head coaching opportunity at the professional level, with the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Less than six weeks later, it was reported that Greg Schiano would be leaving, but this time he would be going back to the NFL as the New England Patriots' defensive coordinator.
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On February 7,2018, Greg Schiano decided to turn down the Patriots job and stay with the Buckeyes.
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In 2018, Greg Schiano was named 247Sports Recruiter of the Year in the Big Ten after helping the Buckeyes land the nation's second-ranked recruiting class.
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Greg Schiano finished second nationally in 247Sports Recruiter of the Year rankings.
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Greg Schiano served as the primary recruiter for five-star offensive tackle Nicholas Petit-Frere, the nation's second-ranked tight end Jeremy Ruckert and the nation's top-ranked center Matthew Jones.
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Greg Schiano served as the primary recruiter on center Luke Wypler, safety Josh Proctor, safety Ronnie Hickman, defensive tackle Tyler Friday and linebacker Javontae Jean-Baptiste.
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Greg Schiano is the classiest person I've ever been around in the coaching profession.
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Former Browns interim head coach and defensive coordinator Greg Williams credited Schiano with cornerback Denzel Ward's early development.
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Greg Schiano has been an example from Day 1 on how to play the ball in the air in man to man, and it has kind of bled to the group.
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On December 1,2019, after several weeks of negotiations and a groundswell of fan and booster support, Greg Schiano rejoined Rutgers as the head coach, signing an eight-year, $32 million contract.
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Greg Schiano's wife Christy was born Christina Mitchell, on October 29,1968; she is one of four children born to Ella Alexander and the late Tom Mitchell.
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Greg Schiano's father-in-law was a former Colts tight end who had played his college football at Bucknell.
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Greg Schiano received most of the major 2006 national Coach of the Year awards after orchestrating what was considered by many to be one of the great turnaround stories in college football history, transforming the hapless Scarlet Knights into a winning football program.
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On December 4,2006, one day after Rutgers accepted a bid to play in the 2006 Texas Bowl against Kansas State, Greg Schiano announced that he would not be a candidate for the recently vacated head coaching job at his previous employer, the University of Miami, ending rumors and speculation that he would leave his creation at upstart Rutgers to return to Miami.
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Greg Schiano stated that he is "very happy at Rutgers" and that Rutgers is just beginning to "scratch the surface" of what the team can accomplish.
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Greg Schiano confirmed this by signing yet another contract extension, announced on February 16,2007, upping his yearly compensation to $1.5 million per year and extending his deal with Rutgers to 2016.
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In December 2007, the Star-Ledger reported that Greg Schiano spoke with University of Michigan athletic director Bill Martin "for quite a while" on December 5 about the head-coaching vacancy at the school.
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In 2011, after Eric LeGrand was paralyzed during a kickoff, Greg Schiano came up with an idea for eliminating kickoffs from football, replacing them with a punt, which is less likely to cause serious injury to the players.