Greg Schiano, rehired last week to coach Rutgers, draws up some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.

Q: What was your best single football moment at Rutgers?

A: Louisville game in ’06. Everything about that day, and then that night. Walking down the Scarlet Walk that night, it was electric. We fell behind by a couple of scores, and the players just stayed focused, and came out and played one of the best halves of football that this school’s ever seen in the second half.

Q: Ideal traits of a Greg Schiano football player.

A: It starts with he has to be talented, because we have to get talented players, but once you get by that minimum threshold, then you want someone that his character is such that he’s unselfish, cares about others, incredible work ethic and loves the game of football.

Q: Eric LeGrand?

A: One of the most incredible human beings that I’ve ever had the chance to be around. People forget he was a really fantastic football player before his injury. But the man that he is, and what he’s done for so many people is, in my mind, unparalleled.

Q: Ray Rice?

A: A great football player, and a man committed to fixing his mistake [third degree aggravated assault for punching his then-fiancé and current wife].

Q: Have you spoken to him over the years about what happened?

A: I have.

Q: And what struck you about what he told you?

A: His thorough understanding of how he got to that place. And he has shared that with hundreds of athletes in an effort to help educate them so they don’t find themselves in a similar situation.

Q: Coaches in other sports you admire?

A: I always thought highly of Pat Riley … Vivian Stringer … Jurgen Klopp.

Q: Is there a common thread with those three?

A: They’re all intense competitors, and they all do it in a different way, but they all care about people greatly.

Q: Other football coaches you’ve admired after Bill Belichick?

A: Coach Paterno … Dick Anderson … Mike Miello … Dom Ciao … Bill Parcells.

Q: Your definition of leadership?

A: Influencing others.

Q: How would you characterize your coaching style?

A: Detailed, intense, loving. Although at times it can be characterized as tough love, I want to help young men reach their full potential.

Q: How do you motivate?

A: You care about people, first and foremost. You equip them and then you inspire them.

Q: How do you inspire?

A: Every person is different. It’s not you that the inspiration is about, it’s about them. You really have to know the people, look deep down inside of them and figure out what it is, what’s their why.

Q: What won’t you tolerate?

A: Dishonesty … lack of loyalty.

Q: Do you have any favorite motivational or inspirational sayings?

A: “Chop.”

Q: Were you a Giants fan growing up?

A: I was a football fan, so I was a Giant fan, I was a Jets fan, I was a Redskins fan. I loved baseball, I was both a Mets and a Yankee fan.

Q: Who were some of your favorite players?

A: It started with Willie Mays … John Riggins … Larry Brown … and later on it was the Giant linebacker crew — LT [Lawrence Taylor], Harry Carson, [Carl] Banks.

Q: Did you go to Giants games at Giants Stadium?

A: Oh yeah, I’ve been many times. We used to go to my grandmother’s in Rutherford every Sunday and I used to love to watch Giants Stadium come out of the swamp as they built it. I’d actually bring binoculars in the back of the station wagon when we got there on Route 17 and watch it as long as I could as we passed it.

Q: What are your memories of Lawrence Taylor wreaking havoc at Giants Stadium?

A: It was so much fun growing up, and it wasn’t just that, it was the New Jersey Generals. We’d go to spring football, fall football, whenever I could get my hands on tickets I was there.

Q: Parcells?

A: He’s helped me immensely. I think Coach is the best communicator through examples and stories. A lot of things that I’ve learned about evaluation of personnel, about inspiring your team, he did it his way, and I’ve taken a lot of things from that.

Q: How did your friendship with Coach Belichick begin?

A: His son Stephen played lacrosse here, so we knew each other from coaching a little bit, but he would come down to watch Stephen play, we would visit and talk football in the mornings of his games ’cause they play on weekends. Then we started to get good enough players that they could help him. As you know it’s been pretty cool to see all our guys up there.

Q: What makes him maybe the greatest of all time?

A: I don’t think there’s any maybe there. I think he’s without question the greatest of all time. Unparalleled focus … work ethic … and then he’s one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met.

Q: Coach Paterno’s influence on you?

A: Immense. Just a forward thinker.

Q: How saddened were you by the way it ended for him?

A: The whole situation was a tragedy for him and everyone involved.

Q: Coach Wooden’s influence on you?

A: I never met Coach Wooden. I corresponded a little bit with Coach Wooden. But I’ve read everything that there is out there on him. Maybe had the biggest impact of any coach on me just from everything I read about him, because his faith and mine are in line, so I think what drives all the things that we’ve talked about, that’s at the root of it.

Q: What stood out to you about his “Pyramid of Success?”

A: Well, it’s sitting right here behind my desk, it travels with me everywhere I go. But I think when you look at the top, the competitive greatness, right to the left of it is faith, and right to the right is patience. What competitive greatness is is being at your best when your best is needed.

Q: Urban Meyer?

A: Close, close friend. Incredible coach. Man of faith.

Q: Why didn’t it work for you in Tampa coaching theFeBucs?

A: There’s never one issue when things go or don’t work. I learned from that experience and take what I’ve learned and moved forward. I don’t dwell on it.

Q: What were your feelings then and now about how angry Tom Coughlin was at you for your players trying to knock the ball loose from Eli Manning in the victory formation?

A: Heat of the moment. Tom is as class a coach as there is in the game. It was heat of the moment, and probably a misunderstanding.

Q: Your thoughts on Ed Reed from your days at Miami?

A: One of the greatest players to ever play the game.

Q: What made him special?

A: Truly gifted athletically, but incredible anticipation.

Q: Ronde Barber?

A: The most intelligent football player that I’ve had the chance to coach.

Q: Is he a Hall of Famer in your view?

A: Absolutely.

Q: Darrelle Revis?

A: Incredibly talented.

Q: What was your on-field mentality when you played linebacker at Ramapo High School?

A: Probably pretty much the way I coach — intense, focused and try to inspire my teammates to get them to play better.

Q: Did you dream of an NFL career?

A: Certainly.

Q: You got a scholarship to Bucknell?

A: I went to Bucknell, Bucknell was non-scholarship at the time. Then went to training camp with the Toronto Argonauts in the CFL and then got released.

Q: At that point, did your focus switch to coaching football?

A: Actually, I was going to go to law school, you couldn’t take the LSAT til later in the fall so my high school coach Mike Miello said, “Why don’t you help me out coaching?” And the rest was history.

Q: You fell in love with it right away?

A: Oh yeah.

Q: Why was your wife Christy your next recruit?

A: Because she’s the greatest person I know … and certainly out of my league.

Q: What makes her the greatest person you know?

A: She’s the most caring, unselfish person that I’ve ever met. She loves her family more than anyone I ever met.

Q: Three dinner guests?

A: Jesus No. 1; Dr. Martin Luther King No. 2; probably any other they told me would be the best third.

Q: Favorite movie?

A: “Rocky I.”

Q: Favorite singer/entertainer?

A: Bruce Springsteen.

Q: Favorite meal?

A: Good Italian — no, check that — great Italian.

Q: What do you want The Rutgers Way to be?

A: An unselfish group of men that lay it on the line every day both on and off the field for each other. And have a high degree of accountability to one another. That are 100 percent honest. Unoffendable. Focused and persistent. A program built on love.

Q: Why do you believe that you will win, and win big?

A: We have a university, and a state, and a coach, and eventually a coaching staff and eventually a program, that’s committed to the long haul to doing this and reaching their goals.