Rutgers has a new RB coach, with Ben Sirmans reportedly jumping off the sinking ship at Boston College that is Frank Spaziani's regime to rejoin offensive coordinator Dave Brock at Rutgers. Sirmans is originally from East Orange, although most of his recruiting ties are in the midwest, owing to his tenure in the MAC and at Michigan State.

It looks like he has a pretty good track record though. He developed Montel Harris from out of nowhere at BC, which would seemingly portend good things for Jawan Jamison at Rutgers. BC always seems to have a halfway decent running game, which is better than could have been said for Rutgers in recent years.

One lingering question mark about this hire is the status of last year's RB coach Chris Hewitt, who does have experience coaching defensive backs as well. Overall, it is difficult to find fault with this hire. A couple of the other rumored names sound iffier though, so we will see what happens.

The new staff, so far.

Dave Brock (OC, and possibly another position group)
Rob Spence (has been reported either QBs or WRs)
Ben Sirmans (RB)
Damien Wroblewski (OL)
Dave Cohen (LB)

There has been no official confirmation yet of what will happen to Smith, Galiano, and Hewitt. Cignetti, Fleck, Angelichio, Fraser, and Hafley have moved on, along with strength coach Jay Butler. So at minimum, there is still one more offensive hire to make, and probably one or two on defense.

Update: whoops. The linked page says Chris Hewitt is going to Baltimore as assistant S/T coach. Guess Rutgers officially needs a secondary coach now.