Rutgers is prepared to meet Greg Schiano’s requirements to accept its head football coaching vacancy, three individuals with knowledge of the process told NJ Advance Media on Friday, moving one step closer for the Wyckoff native to return to the helm of the Scarlet Knights.

Rutgers and Schiano have not finalized a reunion, the three persons said, but it is believed only a last-minute snag or a change of heart by the coach himself could derail the anticipated hire. The university Board of Governors’ athletics committee, the group that would need to recommend Schiano’s hire to the full BOG, met Thursday.

It is not immediately clear if that consulting group made such an endorsement, as its meetings are closed to the public. But Ventura Partners, the search firm retained to assist with the coaching search, was scheduled to make a presentation, two individuals with knowledge of the agenda told NJ Advance Media.

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A special Board of Governors meeting would need to convene in the coming days to rubber stamp Schiano’s hire following a committee recommendation. Such a meeting would be open and would require a 48-hour public notice.

Schiano is believed to have made what one person called “significant” demands during a Tuesday meeting with athletics director Pat Hobbs and Board of Governors’ athletics-committee chairman Greg Brown in Columbus, Ohio. The specific rundown of Schiano’s wishlist is not known, but he is believed to be seeking significant investments including his annual salary, a increased salary pool for his assistant coaches and facilities improvements, potentially including a new football-only facility to replace the Hale Center that would include an indoor practice space.

The athletics committee meeting was held two days after Schiano met with Brown and Hobbs to consider returning to the program he led for 11 seasons from 2001-11 and hours after NJ Advance Media first reported former Tennessee, Cincinnati and Central Michigan coach Butch Jones, the only other known candidate, had removed his name from consideration for the job. Jones interviewed with Rutgers officials last Friday in Chicago.

Schiano, 53, built the Rutgers football program into a perennial bowl participant before leaving for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in early 2012 following an 11-year run from 2001-11. He spent three seasons as Ohio State’s defensive coordinator and then had a brief stint in the same role with the New England Patriots earlier this year before electing to take the season off.

Rutgers went 68-67 under Schiano, but that record is deceiving. The Ramapo High product inherited arguably the nation’s worst program when he was hired. The Scarlet Knights had four straight losing seasons to begin his tenure, but broke through to appear in the program’s second-ever bowl game in 2005, his fifth year.

Rutgers then had a breakthrough 2006, going 11-2 and finishing the year ranked No. 12 in the nation after an iconic home upset of Louisville during the regular season and the school’s first-ever postseason win in the Texas Bowl.

Schiano took Rutgers to six bowl games in his final seven seasons, winning five of them, with a record of 56-33 during that span.

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