Howard's coach Larry Scott was pissed at Schiano. He was mad because Rutgers scored on the last play of a 44-7 Rutgers win. There is more to the story though.
Let pick it up here.
Rutgers ahead 38-7, drive down to the Howard 13 with their backup QB and 3rd string RB running the ball.
4th & 1 at the Howard 13, 1:17 on the clock and Howard calls TO
Rutgers goes for it, and don't get it, so Howard's ball on their own 14
Howard sends out their starting offense, complete a 16 yard pass, incomplete pass, sacked by a backup DE and Howard calls another TO with 48 seconds left, complete a pass but short of a 1st down, then an incompletion on 4th down, turning the ball over on downs at the Howard 31 with 15 seconds.
Rutgers runs the ball with their backup RB to the 11 and the RB gets shoved out of bounds with 7 seconds left, Rutgers runs it again and the RB fights for his first career TD and time runs out. Rutgers doesn't kick an extra point. Game over 44-7.
In my opinion, you can't complain about the opponent running up the score if you call TOs to extend the game. He did it to himself, Schiano could have taken a knee, but instead let his backups get game reps. I don't think that Howard's coach has an argument, he did it to himself.
Here is what Schiano said: "Guys practiced all training camp. They deserve to play," Schiano said. "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. We bring a team in here to play us. We bring them here. We bring them in, we've got to win and we've got to get reps. And they were there, we took them."
Let pick it up here.
Rutgers ahead 38-7, drive down to the Howard 13 with their backup QB and 3rd string RB running the ball.
4th & 1 at the Howard 13, 1:17 on the clock and Howard calls TO
Rutgers goes for it, and don't get it, so Howard's ball on their own 14
Howard sends out their starting offense, complete a 16 yard pass, incomplete pass, sacked by a backup DE and Howard calls another TO with 48 seconds left, complete a pass but short of a 1st down, then an incompletion on 4th down, turning the ball over on downs at the Howard 31 with 15 seconds.
Rutgers runs the ball with their backup RB to the 11 and the RB gets shoved out of bounds with 7 seconds left, Rutgers runs it again and the RB fights for his first career TD and time runs out. Rutgers doesn't kick an extra point. Game over 44-7.
In my opinion, you can't complain about the opponent running up the score if you call TOs to extend the game. He did it to himself, Schiano could have taken a knee, but instead let his backups get game reps. I don't think that Howard's coach has an argument, he did it to himself.
Here is what Schiano said: "Guys practiced all training camp. They deserve to play," Schiano said. "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. We bring a team in here to play us. We bring them here. We bring them in, we've got to win and we've got to get reps. And they were there, we took them."
