"Fans of the Bucs are about to find out what kind of coach Greg Schiano will be for their team. Let's take a look at what kind of coach he has been for other teams. ΒΆ Here are Schiano's greatest hits.
Turning Rutgers into a relevant program
Everyone talks about how Schiano turned around the program at Rutgers, but let's take a moment to study just how awful the program was before Schiano arrived in December 2000.
In the five seasons before, Rutgers was 11-44, including seasons of 0-11 and 1-10. The Scarlet Knights were nobodies, a team other programs would try to schedule for homecoming. In 135 years of football, Rutgers had reached one bowl game.
Schiano started his Rutgers career 2-9, 1-11, 5-7, 4-7.
Those were the days any decent player from New Jersey would pack his helmet and cleats and head to Penn State or Notre Dame, or maybe Syracuse. Rutgers? You cannot be serious.
But Schiano began loosening Penn State's stranglehold on New Jersey recruiting. He started dipping into the deep recruiting pool of Florida. Finally, in 2005, Schiano turned the corner. The Scarlet Knights went 7-5.
Over the next six seasons, the Scarlet Knights went 49-28. Throw out one hiccup season of 4-8 and Schiano's record from 2006 to 2011 was 45-20. Under Schiano, Rutgers went to six bowl games, winning the last five.
Don't underestimate how difficult it was to turn Rutgers around and how impressively Schiano did it.
"The Rutgers football program is stronger than it has ever been,'' Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti said, "and is built to last.''
Developing NFL players at Miami
Check out some of the players who played for Schiano when he was a defensive coordinator at the University of Miami: from top left to bottom, Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma, Ravens free safety Ed Reed and retired NFL linebacker Dan Morgan."