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Rutgers decides to hire Schiano again

Greg Schiano is coming back to Rutgers.

Athletics director Pat Hobbs announced Sunday the university and Schiano have reached a contract agreement, a week after talks to bring back the 53- year- old former Scarlet Knights football head coach fell apart. Hobbs called the negotiations complex.

The contract must be approved by the schools’ board of governors. It is scheduled to meet Tuesday.

Schiano, 53, was coach at Rutgers from 2001 to 2011, going 68- 67. The Scarlet Knights went to a bowl game in six of his final seven seasons. Schiano left Rutgers in 2012 to become head coach for the NFL’s Buccaneers but he lasted only two years.

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