Mike Bianchi: New Bucs coach Greg Schiano is taking over NFL version of Rutgers

Give the Tampa Bay Buccaneers an “A” for the hiring of Rutgers coach Greg Schiano.

An “A” for “Amusing.”

An “A” for “Attention-grabbing.”

An “A” for “Audacious.”

It beats getting a “B” for “BORING” — which is what most of the other NFL head-coaching hirings have been.

Here’s the list of new NFL coaches who’ve been hired in recent days: Jeff Fisher, Romeo Crennel, Mike Mularkey, Dennis Allen, Regis Philbin and ChickPagano.

“Bianchi, you idiot, it’s JOE Philbin and CHUCK Pagano!”

Whatever.

My point is this: Most of the coaches I just mentioned have all the sex appeal of a sea trout. Not that some of them won’t turn out to be good head coaches, but do they really move the needle? The hiring of Schiano is, at least, interesting and displays a little originality.

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Schiano latest in Big East’s ‘brain drain’

This week in the Big East Conference, Navy arrived and Greg Schiano departed. With all due respect to our future servicemen and women from Annapolis, that’s a net loss for the league.

Another one.

Schiano was an 11-year Big East guy. He was the first coach to win eight games in a season at Rutgers since the 1970s, elevating the program far beyond its traditional ceiling. He was a New Jersey native who somehow turned down Miami and Michigan. He was on the cusp of signing a huge recruiting class that would cement his future at the school.

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