Greg Schiano's decision to stay at Rutgers means that he is:

A. insane; B. a baby; C. afraid; D. the next head coach at Penn State or E. none of the above

Okay SAT mavens, first eliminate the obviously wrong answers.  Well he's given no other indications of insanity. (Unless you consider turning down Miami last year an early symptom).  No, this answer is the product of overly sensitive Michigan fans.  The thinking goes, the Michigan job is the best football job in the world for everyone, and if you turn it down you are insane.  These people also came up with the "He's waiting for Joe Paterno to die" excuse.  Wrong.  If Schiano won't go to Michigan, he's not going to take a step down and go to Penn State.  No, Schiano is sane.  He just has another job higher on his list.

He's a big baby, who's throwing a hissy-fit because NJ just yanked a 30M loan to expand Rutgers stadium.  The thinking here is he only interviewed with Michigan to get back at the state of New Jersey, who reneged on  a loan to get the stadium enlarged.  So anyone who listens to a job proposal from anyone other than their present employer is a big baby?  Schiano debunked this one himself.  He asked the sportswriters, if Sports Illustrated offered them interviews would they be "big babies" for listening to an offer? Schiano has every right to listen to job offers as does any other person.

He's afraid he'll buckle under the pressure of being Michigan head coach.  Hmm here's a guy who's coached at Rutgers, Penn State, Miami, and the Chicago Bears.  Somehow, I don't think he'd curl up into the fetal position and wimper if the going got tough.  This is another wounded Michigan fan excuse.

The correct answer is E. none of the above and here's why.  Schiano has been quite clear in his goal.  This is nothing short of winning a national championship at Rutgers and elevating the program to place among the elite schools.  It's ok to laugh.  But a lot more people were laughing in 2000 when Schiano first said this.  Fewer are laughing now.  Schiano sees that if he can keep NJ talent home, and continue to poach a little Florida talent,  he can create the only successful Division I program within 70 miles of the media capital of the world.  He's been successful so far.  I haven't seen the Empire State Building illuminated in LSU or Michigan colors lately.  Les Miles didn't throw out the first ball at a Yankees/Mets game this year.  New York is a sports-crazy town that has at least two of each professional sports team but no college football team, until Rutgers.  If he pulls this off, this puts him in the league of Rockne, Bryant, Devaney, Wilkinson, Royal, Neyland, etc, coaches that are synonymous with their programs.  Can he do it?  It won't be easy, especially with reneging politicians like Gov. Corzine.  But he apparently would rather work for this goal instead of becoming the next in a long line of Michigan or Miami coaches.  My hat's off to him for sticking to his goal instead of taking the easy road of going to Michigan.