Rutgers beat Howard, 44-7, on Thursday.
For some reason, Greg Schiano had the Scarlet Knights score a touchdown on the last play of the game with the decision well in hand.
Howard coach Larry Scott said something to Schiano after the game while shaking hands.
He was miffed.
“I think we’re both two competitive people,” Scott said. “And in that situation, I would choose to handle it a little bit differently. I can’t speak for him. I have a lot of respect for Coach Schiano, what he’s done and what he’s been able to do. But we’re both competitive. And in that situation, you know, just a little bit of frustration came out because I thought it would have been handled differently. But he might as well.”
Schiano’s side: “Guys practiced all training camp. They deserve to play. “There was no running it up. If it was running it up, you don’t use timeouts when you have the ball. You let the game end. That wasn’t retaliatory. We were going to run plays.”
The touchdown came on the final play of the game and it brought the points total to 51. And because the TD was scored with 0:00 on the clock there was no PAT attempt.
No biggie, right? Unless you decided to play the “over” in the total. That was set at 51.5, which means if you had the “over” you lost.
This isn’t the first time something at the end of a Schiano-coached game created hard feelings.