It's officially game week for WVU and Rutgers, so Scarlet Knights coach Greg Schiano took some time to talk about his team and break down his observations of the Mountaineers, whose team speed jumped off of the screen at him while he was watching film of the 'Eers. Read on for what Schiano had to say ...

On the injury status of the team

“They are sore. We are going to have to be day-by-day with Tim (Brown). I hope that he can play. Certainly, it was very tough on Saturday. Shamar (Graves) is very sore. It is fortunate that it wasn’t any internal injuries, but he bruised up pretty good. (Justin) Francis is sore and we don’t know if he is going to be able to play or not. Those three guys are day-to-day and I will keep you addressed as we go.”

On if he got to see Kenny Britt’s game-winning touchdown catch against the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday

“We work on Sundays, so I never get to see them (NFL games) but I got see the highlights. I didn’t see Ray’s (Rice) highlights yet, but the guys will show me them. I saw Kenny’s catch. That was something. I haven’t talked to Kenny yet. Somehow I erased his number so I have to get it from Devin (McCourty). That was a pretty cool play though huh? The fact that we are talking about it makes it pretty cool.”

On how strong performances from Rutgers alums in the NFL help in recruiting

“The kids we recruit love football, so they watch NFL football, so they see it. The stars on ESPN have been Gary Brackett one week and then it was Ray Rice and Kenny Britt. That is pretty cool stuff.”

On WR Tim Brown playing against Louisville despite being injured

“Like I said after the game, it was a very gutsy effort. What the adrenaline and will to compete can do is when you need to turn it on you just put it out of your mind and go. The minute that the play is over, you can see Tim decelerating almost. Make no mistake about it - Tim is not playing at full speed. You take a speed guy and take away his No. 1 tool, that makes what he has done more impressive I think because he is doing it without his No. 1 weapon. He can’t run as fast as he normally could.”

On what he will tell NFL personnel about Brown

“I handle it the way I handle every guy. When the scouts want to talk about him or when the coaches want to talk about him I tell them what I think about the guy. I know this - there are not a lot of people on the planet that play the game of football that run as fast as Tim Brown. Speed is one thing, but Tim has shown that he is a receiver as well. He is not just a deep-ball catcher. He has made some incredible catches. I fully anticipate he will be playing on Sundays like the rest of those guys.”

On West Virginia

“They are a very good football team. They are hitting their stride. When you watch (game tape), I put the special teams tape in and let it run. You can always get a feel for team speed by watching the team run. Not cutups of all the kickoff coverage plays. Just throw a tape on where it shows punt team then punt rush then kickoff return. You just see their team speed jump off the tape. South Florida is the same way. That is No. 1. You look at their defense, they are really playing well. Those two guys upfront – Scooter Berry and (Chris) Neild – seem like they have been there forever. They are stout and strong. Their linebacker (Reed) Williams has been there forever. He is as good of a football player as there is out there. I enjoy watching him playing. Till I remember how it was trying to move the ball on him. I listened to coach (Bill) Stewart talk about him in the summer and he is equally as good of a leader and a smart guy. We have our work cut out for us trying to move the ball against their defense.

“On offense, they are good up front. They have gotten a lot better up front. You look at their skill guys; there probably isn’t more of a dangerous guy than Noel Devine. You can cage him and cage him in but in one play he is gone. That is where it starts. We have had our experiences with the quarterback (Jarrett Brown). We go back a lot of years. He played in our game in ‘06 and he has a lot of miles behind him now. He is a much more experienced quarterback now. He is very elusive. When you do get pressure on him, he is big and strong and can get away from you. Their receiving core is very talented. They have one guy that is incredibly tall (six-foot-eight Wes Lyons). That one play on Devin (McCourty) on Saturday (against Louisville), as a coach it is awfully difficult to give him any advice on that one. He plays press coverage and plays it almost as well as he can. Now, it is a penalty because his hands are on him (Josh Chichester) when the ball is thrown, but how else can you handle a guy who is six-foot-ten?

“I don’t want to gush on them too much, but they are playing football as good as anybody in the league right now. We are certainly going to have to perform our best to have an opportunity to be close in the game.”

On if there are any similarities between West Virginia and South Florida’s offense

“Not as much as you would think. There are some because they are in that split four-wide receiver set at times. I think West Virginia has diversified some. I have known coach (Bill) Stewart over the years and they have become a little bit better rounded. They use a tight end now. Things like that are different. Are the nuts and bolts still similar and still some philosophies that are similar? Absolutely.”

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“The one thing I have learned in this media-savvy computer literate generation is you don’t need to tell them anything. They know it all. You just have to temper it sometimes. They have internet on their phones, in their study rooms and in their bedrooms. It is the information age. They get the information.”

On this year’s senior class

“This senior class, particularly the redshirt seniors, has done something that has never been done here – five straight bowl games. I think sometimes as you have the quest to be best, you can lose sight of some achievements. During the year is not the time, but I will make sure at the conclusion of this year that I do make a bigger deal of it. There was a magazine that was given to me from 1998. It was a Rutgers magazine and it talked about where the football program is going and it said ‘maybe win more games than we lose and a bowl game would be icing on the cake.” Now it is five straight, and understand that I wouldn’t want to be here if the bowl game was still the “icing on the cake.” This is a program that is eventually going to be the best. I am not saying people shouldn’t have heightened expectations but when you do look at this senior class and see five-straight bowl games. That is a heck of a feat.”

On West Virginia QB Jarrett Brown

“We had him in a camp and we knew what a great passer he is. When he started chucking the ball a lot in the ’06 game, it wasn’t a shocker. He is a good quarterback and a good athlete. If he was the guy with a bunch of solid guys it would be different but he is the guy next to the guy (Noel Devine) and that is tough.”

On West Virginia RB Noel Devine

“He is a big-play back. There is no doubt about it. He reminds me very much of Barry Sanders. When I was in Chicago (with Bears), that was the heyday of Barry Sanders. Barry led the league in negative plays because he was so quick and so confident in his cutting ability and speed that he would make some cuts where I am sure the o-line coach would say ‘what are you doing?’ After a while you stop saying that because every eighth one he pops it. There was only one time in my career there that we kept him from popping the whole game and we actually won the game. (Comparing someone) to Barry Sander doesn’t happen much, but Noel Devine does it the same way. He bangs it in there and he is strong. His weight room numbers and speed are legendary.”

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