UM asks to talk to Schiano
BY SUSAN MILLER DEGNAN
sdegnan@MiamiHerald.com

University of Miami athletic director Paul Dee already has contacted Rutgers athletic director Robert E. Mulcahy III for permission to speak to Rutgers football coach Greg Schiano on Monday about the UM head-coaching vacancy, a person close to the situation at Rutgers said tonight.

The call to Mulcahy was made tonight before 9 p.m.

Schiano, 40, will receive a call from Dee on Monday to talk about the Miami job.

Schiano, the Home Depot Coach of the Year whose Scarlet Knights finished 10-2 and missed earning a berth into a BCS bowl on the last play of Saturday night's triple-overtime loss to West Virginia, will talk to Dee as a courtesy, his friend said. It could be the only time the two talk.

For now, the contact said, as Schiano has been saying for weeks, the Rutgers coach is happy in New Jersey and has not altered his thinking. He has said Rutgers is his school and he plans to continue coaching there.

Earlier in the evening, during a teleconference regarding the Texas Bowl, in which Rutgers will play Kansas State on December 28 in Houston, Schiano said, ``I don't know about any situation right now. Nothing has come to my attention. So right now it would be dealing in hypotheticals. But like anything else, if something arises, I'll deal with it.''

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/spo...157405.htm

This is not good from Rutgers, most of the time the parties have already talked behind the scenes with their agents/runners.

Quote:This is not good from Rutgers, most of the time the parties have already talked behind the scenes with their agents/runners.

Mark my words: NO WAY Schiano goes to Miami.

It's the Penn State job he wants, and Paterno will be 80 years old on Dec. 21st; he is on his last years at Penn State, if this wasn't it already.

Schiano will hold out for the Penn State job, and it won't be for many years.

And here's what I can tell you at this point:
Schiano isn't leaving for anywhere anytime soon. He is Rutgers.

Penn State will most likely hire within from the current staff.

brista21 Wrote:And here's what I can tell you at this point:
Schiano isn't leaving for anywhere anytime soon. He is Rutgers.

I hope RU steps up and pay the guy his market salary. Is RU planning on a stadium expansion? I think that will help pay for his salary. How much bigger can that stadium be expanded to?

SF Husky Wrote:

brista21 Wrote:And here's what I can tell you at this point:
Schiano isn't leaving for anywhere anytime soon. He is Rutgers.

I hope RU steps up and pay the guy his market salary. Is RU planning on a stadium expansion? I think that will help pay for his salary. How much bigger can that stadium be expanded to?

Big Bob is working on it. And the first expansion will be designed and built after their are 25K or more season tix holders. That may happen for the 2007 season as we already started sales and we've added 6K+ so far not to mention what renewals will be when they start in January. The stadium by all reports can be expanded to 85K if need be completing both the upper and lower bowls all the way around plus luxury suites which if the buyers are in place should begin to be worked on right away. I don't think however we will ever complete the upper bowl all the way around.

The first expansion will likely add the missing sections 101 and 130 and the Luxury suites.

SF Husky Wrote:

brista21 Wrote:And here's what I can tell you at this point:
Schiano isn't leaving for anywhere anytime soon. He is Rutgers.

I hope RU steps up and pay the guy his market salary. Is RU planning on a stadium expansion? I think that will help pay for his salary. How much bigger can that stadium be expanded to?

I think they can max out at about 62K but that would be pushing it. First they could finish the shoe at one end of the stadium by bring the upper deck around to connect both sides of the field. Then they could try and close the open end on the river by extending seats to the score board and putting permanent seats under the score board. Finally they have room on the hill at that end to add seats if they move the cannon and the colonials to another location. They also have the option to play games at Giants staduim like they do with ND if the need arises. I have read that Giants stadium will remain up and intact after the Giants and Jets build a new stadium next to it.

Rutgers top offer is 2 million.The maximum size of the stadium is 46.5 k(per agreement with the NJSEA).greg is likely history.

brista21 Wrote:

SF Husky Wrote:

brista21 Wrote:And here's what I can tell you at this point:
Schiano isn't leaving for anywhere anytime soon. He is Rutgers.

I hope RU steps up and pay the guy his market salary. Is RU planning on a stadium expansion? I think that will help pay for his salary. How much bigger can that stadium be expanded to?

Big Bob is working on it. And the first expansion will be designed and built after their are 25K or more season tix holders. That may happen for the 2007 season as we already started sales and we've added 6K+ so far not to mention what renewals will be when they start in January. The stadium by all reports can be expanded to 85K if need be completing both the upper and lower bowls all the way around plus luxury suites which if the buyers are in place should begin to be worked on right away. I don't think however we will ever complete the upper bowl all the way around.

The first expansion will likely add the missing sections 101 and 130 and the Luxury suites.

85k where are getting this from--I know you said you don't support this but it is pure folly to mention. Can the highway infrastructure support that? Can the campus park that many?

You realize you have a season ticket base of 12k this year. Even with 6k more you aren't even at 20k.

If Rutgers falls back to 500% how many of the bandwagon will still be there? You need to build a hard core base of 30k seasons first before going to 45-50k. Not sure if Tigershark is correct but his claim sounds plausible.

TexanMark Wrote:

brista21 Wrote:

SF Husky Wrote:

brista21 Wrote:And here's what I can tell you at this point:
Schiano isn't leaving for anywhere anytime soon. He is Rutgers.

I hope RU steps up and pay the guy his market salary. Is RU planning on a stadium expansion? I think that will help pay for his salary. How much bigger can that stadium be expanded to?

Big Bob is working on it. And the first expansion will be designed and built after their are 25K or more season tix holders. That may happen for the 2007 season as we already started sales and we've added 6K+ so far not to mention what renewals will be when they start in January. The stadium by all reports can be expanded to 85K if need be completing both the upper and lower bowls all the way around plus luxury suites which if the buyers are in place should begin to be worked on right away. I don't think however we will ever complete the upper bowl all the way around.

The first expansion will likely add the missing sections 101 and 130 and the Luxury suites.

85k where are getting this from--I know you said you don't support this but it is pure folly to mention. Can the highway infrastructure support that? Can the campus park that many?

You realize you have a season ticket base of 12k this year. Even with 6k more you aren't even at 20k.

If Rutgers falls back to 500% how many of the bandwagon will still be there? You need to build a hard core base of 30k seasons first before going to 45-50k. Not sure if Tigershark is correct but his claim sounds plausible.

Here's a recent article where Schiano mentions an 80,000-85,000 seat stadium:
http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=...&type=lgns

He may not be at Rutgers by the end of the week.NJSEA financed the stadium.The financing agreement had a 46.5k limit.Closing the open end brings it to 55k.Rutgers is already scheduled to play ND at the meadowlands for LARGE GAMES.

tigersharktwo Wrote:He may not be at Rutgers by the end of the week.NJSEA financed the stadium.The financing agreement had a 46.5k limit.Closing the open end brings it to 55k.Rutgers is already scheduled to play ND at the meadowlands for LARGE GAMES.

Hey TIGERSHARK!!! EAT CROW!!! As I've known as fact for sometime Greg was not going anywhere. Finally we caught you in your lies.

bristle cream all predictions are not called lies unless you are total jerk.You can be sure that rutgers stadium will not be anywhere near 85000 seats,but at a maximum of 46500.$20,000,000 over 10 years is a pretty good price.Greg certainly played REAL TOUGH with Rutgers.Are they going to name Rutgers stadium after your big donation.(50000 bottles)?

tigersharktwo Wrote:bristle cream all predictions are not called lies unless you are total jerk.You can be sure that rutgers stadium will not be anywhere near 85000 seats,but at a maximum of 46500.$20,000,000 over 10 years is a pretty good price.Greg certainly played REAL TOUGH with Rutgers.Are they going to name Rutgers stadium after your big donation.(50000 bottles)?

Can you at least type properly? Seriously. Dude stop being a troll here. And if you read anything in the news the actual news not the inner thoughts of a troll from internet message boards the expansion is already being talked about. There are already preliminary plans for a completed 85K seat stadium sitting in Greg's office. However we wouldn't expand that fast that quick. I'd expect sections 101 and 130 to finally be added and luxury suites for 2007/2008 seasons. And completion of upper bowl for 2009/2010 seasons. That puts us at 65K+.

CardHouse Wrote:

Quote:This is not good from Rutgers, most of the time the parties have already talked behind the scenes with their agents/runners.

Mark my words: NO WAY Schiano goes to Miami.

It's the Penn State job he wants, and Paterno will be 80 years old on Dec. 21st; he is on his last years at Penn State, if this wasn't it already.

Schiano will hold out for the Penn State job, and it won't be for many years.

Why? Rutgers and Schiano could be the perfect "replacement" for Penn State as the school of choice in the northeast.

Rutgers, from my understanding, will have to improve their facilities but they seem to have everything a school that wants to be successful wants and the alumni that can pay for it.

Its right next to the moon rocket.(Yes ,must be confused with the new Giants/Jets stadium.)Thats next to 15k areana for a ice hockey in New Brunswick.Are you buying one of the corporate boxes?I am sure your bottle collection group will makes its revenue forecast.Are you plannong on doming the new 85k rutgers stadium.Maybe you can bond it right along with the expansion of all the extra new roadways and parking decks around the 85k stadium.

tigersharktwo Wrote:He may not be at Rutgers by the end of the week.NJSEA financed the stadium.The financing agreement had a 46.5k limit.Closing the open end brings it to 55k.Rutgers is already scheduled to play ND at the meadowlands for LARGE GAMES.

Connecting the upper decks at the closed end too might get them to 62k, but I don't think they can get that stadium to 85k. They would have to add on to the upper decks and I don't think they would support another addition. Besides they are already busing people in from the Livingston campus and the other campuses due to a parking shortage at the stadium on the Busch Campus. If they are going bigger than 62k then they will have to rebuild the upper decks or go to Giants stadium for larger games which would be good in the short term to see if Rutgers sustains the momentum they currently have and the growth they are hoping for and projecting into the future.

By the Schiano has announced that he is staying at Rutgers.

brista21 Wrote:There are already preliminary plans for a completed 85K seat stadium sitting in Greg's office. However we wouldn't expand that fast that quick. I'd expect sections 101 and 130 to finally be added and luxury suites for 2007/2008 seasons. And completion of upper bowl for 2009/2010 seasons. That puts us at 65K+.

I expect Bob Mulcahy to proceed cautiously with this if only because the Board will not likely approve any major additions too quickly. I have also heard that the addition of 101 and 130 will be the first move, followed by the luxury suites, but those are obvious additions anyway. I think the completion of the upper bowl might end up being further away than the 2010 season but Bob Mulcahy has already seemed to imply that it depends on how much season ticket sales increase over the next few years.

OK, Krocker, whatever!

I was reading the local sports this morning and an article about the rankings shift stated that some of the coaches didn't want a rematch, and some valued up FLA's win over Arkie. So, truth is, the answer lies directly between.

Still, there are enough examples of BS votes out there to prove Cat's Claw's point that USA is picking on Tressel as a diversion. Better not to vote at all than to cast a BS vote IMO.

BJUnklFkr Wrote:OK, Krocker, whatever!

I was reading the local sports this morning and an article about the rankings shift stated that some of the coaches didn't want a rematch, and some valued up FLA's win over Arkie. So, truth is, the answer lies directly between.

Still, there are enough examples of BS votes out there to prove Cat's Claw's point that USA is picking on Tressel as a diversion. Better not to vote at all than to cast a BS vote IMO.

I will not drag the argument out here since this is the wrong thread. I feel, obviously, that USA Today has no business trying to scapegoat Jim Tressel. In all honesty they should have not allowed him, Urban Meyer, or Lloyd Carr to vote due to the high stakes.

But, as to the argument that votes were changed, that is not exactly true. Michigan did not drop from #2 to #3. They stayed #3. USC was #2. They lost. Florida moved up to #2. Do you think #3 should automatically move up to #2 even if a comparable team is #4?

I think people on this board should be more upset about Wisconsin, when they did not even play, jumping Louisville than about Florida, which won the SEC title game, jumping Michigan. The Wolverines stayed at #3 where they were for the previous two weeks.