Debby Wong-US PRESSWIRE
I have to say that before writing this post I waited and waited because I was unsure if this was a battle worth fighting. Finally, with signing day coming up tomorrow, and many analysts preaching talking about how teens nowaday move from one university to another so much more than they did a decade ago, that I decided it was time for me to say something here. Simply put I would like to know how is it that no one in the main stream media doesn’t have much of a problem with a head coach, a man who is supposed to take care of these kids, the one he recruited to his college, just leave his position without many, if any, knowing about it.
How does coach Schiano’s pitch go for all those recruits and their families? “I will take care of your boy, unless of course I have a better job offer, than I am leaving and not telling anyone anything”. We make players, young men or teenagers, have to sit out a year if they leave once they have signed their letter of intent, which could be seen as a contract, but nothing, and I mean nothing, is done to head coaches that pick up and leave with their contract yet to be fully fulfilled. Sorry that makes no sense what so ever to me, and the high and mighty that work for the NCAA should think about that at their next meetings. This is something that is not going to go away and not addressing this is just making the problem get bigger and bigger.
And, yes, I have heard that before coach Schiano Rutgers was nothing and now they are a program that has risen plenty, all thanks to their head man. But that does not change the fact that what he did in leaving the way he did is wrong! Or in other words, one thing has nothing to do with the other, and while the first one is totally true and is something that without a doubt Schiano has brought Rutgers to much higher levels than when he got there, the second one is true as well, the head coach made his exit at both the wrong time and in the wrong way.
In the end this is something that needs to be addressed at the highest of level, in a way that does not hurt anyone, be it the program, the school, the coach and especially the players, who most choose the university based on who is running the team. Will it ever happen? I doubt it, cause the sad reality is that these kind of things do not lose money for the NCAA, and as such, the entity that governs all of this does not have much drive to get involved in it.
Tags: Greg Schiano, Rutgers Football
Having lived in the Empire State, first down state and now living in upstate, most of his life AEM has always enjoyed sports, while never having any favorite team, with the exception of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is old enough to remember the Islanders being great when Mike Bossy was the leading man of the dynasty, to have watched the Mets win it all, to have seen the New York Giants win the Super Bowl (the one before Eli Manning did it), to remember when St. John's was good under Lou Carnesecca, and many more story lines that have happened in the state of New York. And of course, he is old enough to remember the "miracle on ice" that the US Hockey team did in this very state, in Lake Placid, a place he has visited many times, just like the Hall of Fame of Baseball in Cooperstown.
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