PISCATAWAY, N.J. — With several new pieces added to the Rutgers football staff, this past weekend’s scrimmage was another learning experience for the group. It was a chance to put into practice what the staff will need to do come gameday.
And while none of the notable additions to the staff are lacking in experience, it is still an important time for everything to be put together on the communications level.
Rutgers made three big-time hires this offseason on the offensive side of the ball, bringing in [autotag]Kirk Ciarrocca[/autotag] (offensive coordinator), [autotag]Pat Flaherty[/autotag] (offensive line) and [autotag]Dave Brock[/autotag] (wide receivers coach). It is a not insignificant number of changes for one offseason, and for Rutgers it means that there has been an overhaul on offense in not just scheme but also the language used.
Saying that the scrimmages are good for his new staff “A little bit,” head coach Greg Schiano detailed some of the nuances that can be worked out in these settings.
“I mean, those are all experienced guys. So when you work with a bunch of different people over the years, you’ve kind of seen it all,” Schiano said.
“It’s good that we do it though we got the headsets on (and) different things come up. Sometimes a word at one place means a different than the word at this place. So we got to make sure we’re all speaking the same language.”
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The second scrimmage, according to Schiano, was good on both sides of the ball.
“I thought it was great. I thought, you know, we did a lot of different situational football. We got a lot of reps, the guys we’re focused, intentional for over for what wasn’t close to four hours and did a really good job,” Schiano said.
“We hit on a bunch of different stuff. We’ll watch the tape a lot, a lot of things that were not happy with. I was happy with their focus and concentration.”
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