Greg Schiano keeps talking about the process. Rutgers keeps getting the result nobody wants.
That was the story again Friday night after the Scarlet Knights dropped another ugly one, this time to Boston College. Schiano, now in year seven of his second stint in Piscataway, leaned on the same message he’s been repeating while the losses pile up: keep working, stay focused, and trust that the scoreboard will eventually sort itself out.
“I have no idea what’s going to happen,” Schiano said following loss vs. Boston College.
“You coach your guts out and you let the chips fall where they may. When you start worrying about results is when you get in trouble.
The score takes care of itself if you can keep working and keep focused on what is really important.”
That’s the line. The problem is the picture on the field keeps making it harder to believe.
Rutgers brought Schiano back in 2020 to steady a program that had spent years buried near the bottom of the Big Ten and, frankly, near the bottom of the country. But here in year seven of that second run, Rutgers still looks like one of the worst teams in the nation.
And this season hasn’t offered much reason to think that’s changing soon.
Schiano spent the offseason trying to sell optimism around the defense and around the staff he put together, including Travis Johansen, even though he said there had been another hire in place for the job before it fell through late. He also tried to sell the quarterback room, which already has seven interceptions through two games.
“I believe we can win with these quarterbacks,” Schiano said. “I think we have to improve. I’ve seen them do it at a high level.”
The evidence on Friday didn’t exactly back that up. Dylan Lonergan, who started for one year in his career and did so last fall for a 2-10 Boston College team, was one option. AJ Surace got his first start last night, and it went off the rails quickly.
Surace was in over his head. He couldn’t identify defenders in the middle of the field, and that led directly to the game-clinching interception for Boston College.
There wasn’t much mystery to it, either. It happened in real time.
For now, Rutgers’ quarterback situation is still unsettled. If healthy, Lonergan should get another shot. Schiano wasn’t ready to map out the next move after the loss.
“It’s too soon after the game to be able to tell you the answer on that,” Schiano said of the quarterback situation moving forward. “First off, we got to figure out where we are health wise and then we have to see this tape and really watch and see the reasons why.”
The larger problem is bigger than one position, one turnover, or one bad night. Rutgers is 0-2 against teams that went a combined 2-22 last season. At some point, the patience test becomes a results test.
Schiano isn’t budging from the message, though.
“We’re just not quite ready yet but the key word is yet,” Schiano said. “This team will continue to improve, and we’ll beat some people that I think you don’t think we can beat.”
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