PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Greg Schiano is back at Rutgers, but he’s not quite home yet. That is coming soon. He and his wife Christy had built the house of their dreams during their first go-around here, thinking they’d stay forever. But, of course, life (and an NFL head coaching opportunity) happened, and they didn’t stay forever.



Right now, Schiano is living out of a hotel. Soon, he and Christy will be back in their old house — their buyers back then have since become sellers, though Schiano knows he’s probably not getting the best deal here — just a stone’s throw from the Scarlet Knights’ football facilities.



Schiano sits now, in his corner office of the Hale Center, tasked with building again what he built up once before. Back in December 2000, he inherited a football program that had just endured the worst five-year stretch in program history (11-44) and turned it into a regular contender in the old Big East.