Greg Schiano says playing this Big Ten team ‘will definitely be a great challenge’

Rutger’s Head Coach Greg Schiano spoke to the media this week about playing Wisconsin on Saturday.

Just generally your thoughts on Wisconsin, its strengths and what you see from their offense and defense?

Greg: Yeah, they are a good football team. Coach Fickell does a very good job. Has a real strong philosophy on how they want to play the game. Up front, their offensive line I think is big. They are strong….You know, we'll create a plan on what they like to do offensively but we're going to have to stop the run and the pass.

And then when you flip them over on defense, they are really well-coached. Very sound. Big up front. They can run at linebacker, and really experienced in the secondary. You know, we know the corner very well, obviously, who Pick-Sixed us last year. And the safety, I forget, 24, really good player. He seems like he's been playing forever.

But play-makers. They have some guys that can run. They are a run and hit group and they are big up front. So very, very sound at what they do. They know what they want to do, and I think they know how to fix things when they have a breakdown, they quickly fix it within the game.

So definitely a great challenge. But every week in the Big Ten is. What week isn't, right? The margin of error is very slim, as we saw Saturday. When you come out on the right end of it, you're really happy and excited. And when you come out on the wrong end like Saturday, you know, you've got to move forward now and that's what we're doing with Wisconsin. They are very good, so a big challenge.

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