“To build this thing the right way for the long haul, which is what we all aspire to do, we came together with (Schiano) and he kept telling me like, ‘I want you to build the Rutgers offense,’” said Gleeson, who enters his third season as offensive coordinator. They needed to hire a wide receivers coach as well. Gone to the NFL are a pair of seventh-round picks in wide receiver Bo Melton and running back Isiah Pacheco - Rutgers’ first offensive players drafted since 2016 - and it was clear to Schiano and Gleeson that overhauling the offensive line was the best thing the program could do to keep moving forward.Īssistant coaches Augie Hoffmann and Andrew Aurich changed their coaching responsibilities, with Hoffmann taking the offensive line and Aurich moving to running backs. Schiano tasked offensive coordinator Sean Gleeson with figuring out what the Rutgers offense should look like and what steps it can take to get there. Rutgers played in the Gator Bowl as a replacement for Texas A&M, which had to withdraw. In this day and age in this college football landscape, if we’re involved in the fourth quarter, anything can happen.”
And if we can go out there and do that, we’ll have an opportunity. And ultimately, that’s the most important thing that we can build defensively, just that mindset. “We got to do what Rutgers needs to do to be successful. We can’t out-Michigan Michigan,” Harasymiak said. Harasymiak and Schiano worked to put a staff together that included a new defensive line coach, a new cornerbacks coach, a new linebackers coach and the promotion of Drew Lascari from defensive assistant to safeties coach. “He’s an excellent, excellent football coach - and not just with the X’s and O’s and technique, but the way he connects with players,” Schiano added. He put together his first coaching staff when he was just 29 years old. Prior to that, Harasymiak was the head coach at Maine, which he led to the FCS semifinals in 2018. 1, so he’s back home,” Schiano said of the 36-year-old Harasymiak, who previously was the co-coordinator at Minnesota. This winter, Schiano was able to make it happen.
Truth be told, Schiano wanted to hire Harasymiak away from Minnesota when the head coach returned to Rutgers. Schiano said he has long viewed new defensive coordinator Joe Harasymiak as a bright up-and-comer in the profession. They enter this season with an almost entirely new defensive staff. The Scarlet Knights are 8-14 since Schiano’s return for a second run in Piscataway. As a head coach, I continually try and tweak and adjust the staff to maximize the effect they can have on our players.” “You know the old saying, you not only have to get the right people on the bus, but you gotta get them in the right seats. “After two years, I used it as an opportunity,” Schiano said. After Rutgers finished last season with a 5-8 record, capped by a loss to Wake Forest in the Gator Bowl, coach Greg Schiano was open to doing some thinking and tinkering with his coaching staff.
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