Howard coach Larry Scott was upset with Rutgers coach Greg Schiano after the Scarlet Knights scored a touchdown on the last play of the game in their 44-7 win on Thursday night.
Scott walked over and shook hands with Schiano after the game ended and appeared to say something to him. Schiano turned around, and it wasn’t clear if he responded.
In his post-game news conference, Scott expressed his displeasure with Antwan Raymond scoring an 11-yard touchdown as time expired. He mentioned that he wouldn’t have handled the situation that way.
When asked what he said to Schiano, Scott declined to elaborate.
Scott felt that Schiano’s decision at the end of the game could have been managed differently and was frustrated by the outcome.
“I think we’re both two competitive people,” Scott said. “And in that situation, I would choose to handle it a little bit differently. I can’t speak for him.
I have a lot of respect for coach Schiano, what he’s done and what he’s been able to do. But we’re both competitive.
And in that situation, you know, just a little bit of frustration came out because I thought it would have been handled differently. But he might as well.”
Schiano defended his actions, saying there was no intent to run up the score.
“Guys practiced all training camp. They deserve to play,” Schiano said. “There was no running it up. If it was running it up, you don’t use timeouts when you have the ball. You let the game end. That wasn’t retaliatory.
We were going to run plays. We bring a team in here to play us. We bring them here. We bring them in, we’ve got to win and we’ve got to get reps. And they were there, we took them.”
