News and links roundup for 12/21

by On the Banks on Dec 21, 2010 7:00 AM EST in Rutgers football

Coach Schiano laments missing ten to fifteen practices that normally come with playing in a bowl game. Does it matter that RU didn't get the full allotment of practices last year?
Rutgers is up to #9 in the new Open Mat wrestling rankings (#14 in Intermat). If only women's basketball was doing as well this year...
UMass plans to join the MAC in 2013.
Kent State hired former Rutgers assistant Darrell Hazell as their new head coach. That's led to a flurry of Ohio State speculation about bringing in P.J. Fleck (he was a graduate assistant there a few years ago), but I...cannot find any source for the rumor whatsoever. Couldn't they just take Ciarrocca? One thing's for sure: stay the hell off FlightAware or you'll just start chasing ghosts (yes, I looked). Nor is there anything solid at all out there about former RU OC John McNulty actually being a real candidate at Temple.
Florida line coach Steve Addazio is interviewing for the Temple job. Former Pitt OC Frank Cignetti keeps getting named as a candidate, but as of now he hasn't interviewed (fingers crossed!) Interestingly enough, Penn State DC Tom Bradley and LBs coach Ron Vanderlinden have, which only fuel speculation about Joe Paterno's future. Oh wow. If that were to somehow happen this year would turn into the best Rutgers football offseason ever.

Football Outsiders looks at Defensive ROY candidate Devin McCourty.

Tampa Bay promoted George Johnson from their practice squad to the active roster.

Indiana University of Pennsylvania fired Rutgers alum Lou Tepper from his head coaching job. He was a former Illinois HC and longtime FBS assistant. It probably doesn't even remotely matter, but for what it's worth Cignetti is an IUP alum (his father coached there after being fired by WVU).

Fanhouse's Brett McMurphy did some good work investigating drug policies at FBS schools. FYI, PSU, Pitt, and Temple are considered "state-related" universities and thus not subject to Pennsylvania's open records law for the most part.

WHAT?!?!? West Virginia only sold 4,403 tickets to the Champs bowl? Did they forget a zero somewhere? They clearly do have great fan support, so that number has to be interpreted as another indictment of Bill Stewart.

Rutgers has a new men's golf coach. IIRC, the university actually listed the open position for months on its HR website. I remembered that because I've been checking to see if any football assistant positions would be listed (they were at Texas a few weeks ago) to no luck.

The Patriot League won't offer football scholarships just yet anyway. At some point it'd be nice to not play a MEAC FCS team for once.

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