Greg Schiano has evolved since his first tenure at Rutgers, and he may have football team close to a breakthrough

Greg Schiano has discovered that the minor details that once gnawed at the 34-year-old Rutgers coach no longer trouble the 54-year-old Rutgers coach, who has adopted more of a widescreen approach as he heads into the second year of his second tenure with the Scarlet Knights.

Case in point: Schiano’s office inside the program's football facility has remained sparsely decorated since his return, with largely empty shelves and no rush to perform any major interior redesign given the limitations on recruiting imposed by the NCAA since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

"Stuff like that would’ve driven me nuts in the past," Schiano told USA TODAY Sports. "Now I just want to coach my team and improve our team. That’s what gets me going. It’s made it more fun to coach."