I kind of stand in the middle on the whole Savage issue, and without Schiano, the whole story obviously changes, but I thought this news as per Star Ledger was important to share. Make of it what you want, but the way I see it, as with Schiano, it's time to use the past as a springboard but ultimately move forward.

Rutgers' Greg Schiano will be the next coach at Tampa Bay, ESPN's Adam Schefter and SI's Peter King report.

Schiano to the NFL?

According to "a source close to him" Yuri Wright gave his commitment to Colorado. While that doesn't sound promising for RU, it's far from a signed letter of intent. For some reason this feels like it's a report that is just about to be refuted. Let's hope so too for Yuri's and RU's sake. To me, Schiano seems like he's much better suited to turn this guy into a squeaky clean dominant CB, than Colorado.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that this changes in Rutgers' favor by next week.

This just goes to show you that the best coaches/teams/scouts really respect the quality preparation that Rutgers provides its' players.
That's a pretty solid recruiting pitch right there too. "Would you like to play in the Super Bowl? Come to Rutgers."

Rutgers — 5

Giants
CB Brandon Bing
Patriots
CB Nate Jones, CB Devin McCourty, WR Tiquan Underwood, DE Alex Silvestro

As per the Knights' website, it looks like only a limited number of tickets remain. Hopefully this news is mostly good due to Scarlet support and not bad due to an Orange invasion. Either way, it wouldn't be this big if RU wasn't showing these brilliant flashes.

Just for fun I calculated those odds myself using the moneylines on oddshark and rough odds conversion ratios. I also estimated WVU's odds at winning @USF to be about the same as them winning home against Pitt since the USF game odds aren't available yet. I got to 20% by assuming that WVU must lose ONE of their last TWO games (each has a 30% chance of happening so there is an apox 50% at least one happens) and that RU must beat UConn (60% chance) and LVille must lose to USF (60% chance). There's also a 10% chance RU gets it's BCS bid by this Saturday afternoon.

By all means check my math or suggest alternative values or assumptions. None of it means anything for certain, of course. I just figured I'd while some work time away before Thanksgiving.

Happy holidays everyone!

(also link just goes to oddshark.com, fyi)