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Rutgers Stadium plays host to a pair of teams from North Carolina and New Jersey on Saturday, but 23 players on the two rosters hail from Florida.
For an explanation, look no further than the head coaches on opposite sidelines.
Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano and North Carolina head coach Butch Davis spent two years together at Miami, where Davis was the head coach and Schiano served as defensive coordinator.
After Davis moved on to the NFL and then the Tar Heels and Schiano joined Rutgers, the friends remained close with each other and with the recruiting hotbed.
"With the success that we were having in Miami at that time, we were winning, winning big, and playing great defense," Davis said. "Kids who are growing up playing football would go to the Orange Bowl,Welcome to rolex uhren Online store,We supply rolex uhren,rolex Replica uhren,discount Rolex uhren,Rolex uhren cheap etc. watch the games and know pretty much everybody. It's not like being in the NFL,In order to satisfy their vanity, many men who can’t afford to authentic rolex watches often buy ROLEX REPLICA WATCHES at affordable price but it's pretty close for kids in South Florida."
Schiano's ties to the Miami area were a big part of his appeal as a candidate when, 10 years ago, he took over the Rutgers program. But before he had that opportunity, he learned under Davis for two years in Coral Gables, Fla.
When Schiano and Davis left Miami at the end of the 1999 season,nfl hats, also called NFL caps, are now fashionable in every street. With rising temperature and blazing sun it was at the tail end of major NCAA punishments, which barred the Hurricanes from postseason play in Davis' first season and took away scholarships over the next few years.,we achieved good development in business replica sunglasses.
Davis received credit for cleaning the program up, but now UNC finds itself the victim of NCAA probing and suspended 12 players through its first two games.
"Butch and I have a lot of the same philosophies - part of the reason is I learned under him," Schiano said. "They're well coached, they're disciplined. There is no one that handles adversity better than Butch. He's able to rally the troops and keep it concise."
And while Schiano watches from a distance this season and prepares to face a Tar Heels team that will likely miss many of its starters once again, Davis credited him with helping turn around the culture at Miami.
"Watching the way he bought into things that I thought were important, and watching the way he carried that mission into the defense and the positions he coached or the kids he recruited, I think it was a great testament to the type of individual he was going to become as a head coach," Davis said.
But before Schiano became a head coach, he had to learn how to do it.
That happened under Davis.
After spending time as a defensive backfield coach with the Chicago Bears under Dave Wannstedt, the now-Pittsburgh head coach convinced Davis to interview Schiano for his defensive coordinator position.
Davis hired him and groomed him to be a head coach.
"It was very apparent with Greg that that was the career path he was headed toward, and it was something that was important to him," Davis said. "I felt like it was a little bit of my responsibility as the head football coach to help meet the goals and obligations of all your assistant coaches."
Rutgers Stadium plays host to a pair of teams from North Carolina and New Jersey on Saturday, but 23 players on the two rosters hail from Florida.
For an explanation, look no further than the head coaches on opposite sidelines.
Rutgers head football coach Greg Schiano and North Carolina head coach Butch Davis spent two years together at Miami, where Davis was the head coach and Schiano served as defensive coordinator.
After Davis moved on to the NFL and then the Tar Heels and Schiano joined Rutgers, the friends remained close with each other and with the recruiting hotbed.
"With the success that we were having in Miami at that time, we were winning, winning big, and playing great defense," Davis said. "Kids who are growing up playing football would go to the Orange Bowl,Welcome to rolex uhren Online store,We supply rolex uhren,rolex Replica uhren,discount Rolex uhren,Rolex uhren cheap etc. watch the games and know pretty much everybody. It's not like being in the NFL,In order to satisfy their vanity, many men who can’t afford to authentic rolex watches often buy ROLEX REPLICA WATCHES at affordable price but it's pretty close for kids in South Florida."
Schiano's ties to the Miami area were a big part of his appeal as a candidate when, 10 years ago, he took over the Rutgers program. But before he had that opportunity, he learned under Davis for two years in Coral Gables, Fla.
When Schiano and Davis left Miami at the end of the 1999 season,nfl hats, also called NFL caps, are now fashionable in every street. With rising temperature and blazing sun it was at the tail end of major NCAA punishments, which barred the Hurricanes from postseason play in Davis' first season and took away scholarships over the next few years.,we achieved good development in business replica sunglasses.
Davis received credit for cleaning the program up, but now UNC finds itself the victim of NCAA probing and suspended 12 players through its first two games.
"Butch and I have a lot of the same philosophies - part of the reason is I learned under him," Schiano said. "They're well coached, they're disciplined. There is no one that handles adversity better than Butch. He's able to rally the troops and keep it concise."
And while Schiano watches from a distance this season and prepares to face a Tar Heels team that will likely miss many of its starters once again, Davis credited him with helping turn around the culture at Miami.
"Watching the way he bought into things that I thought were important, and watching the way he carried that mission into the defense and the positions he coached or the kids he recruited, I think it was a great testament to the type of individual he was going to become as a head coach," Davis said.
But before Schiano became a head coach, he had to learn how to do it.
That happened under Davis.
After spending time as a defensive backfield coach with the Chicago Bears under Dave Wannstedt, the now-Pittsburgh head coach convinced Davis to interview Schiano for his defensive coordinator position.
Davis hired him and groomed him to be a head coach.
"It was very apparent with Greg that that was the career path he was headed toward, and it was something that was important to him," Davis said. "I felt like it was a little bit of my responsibility as the head football coach to help meet the goals and obligations of all your assistant coaches."
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