When Rutgers hired Jerry Kill to run its offense under second year Head Coach Chris Ash, not everyone knew exactly who he was. There has been plenty of promising reviews written about the hiring of the former University of Minnesota Head Coach, but let us examine the hire a little closer.
Coach Kill is a throwback
The most important aspect of the newest member of Scarlet Knight Football Coaching staff is that he has worked his way up the proverbial coaching ladder the old fashion way, he earned it. In this new age of college coaching that we are in, tends to lend itself to the youthful analytical type, as opposed to a nuts and bolts, grease under the fingernail type that dotted the landscape decade after decade in the previous century.