201
MEDIA INFORMATION COACH SCHIANO INTERVIEWS All interview requests must be arranged through Jason Baum. Coach Schiano will be available to the media every Monday on the BIG EAST Coaches Conference call at 11 a.m., Tuesday at his weekly press conference at 1 p.m. in the team meeting room of the Hale Center and after practice on Wednesday and Thursday. COVERING PRACTICE Rutgers' preseason practices begin August 5. Throughout the season, practice will be open to the media for the first 30 minutes on Tuesday and Wednesday. Practice is closed to the media on Sunday and Thursday. FILMING AT PRACTICE On Tuesday and Wednesday, video and photo access is available during individual periods of practice. Tripods are not permitted on the practice field and media members must stand at least five yards off the sideline. WEEKLY PRESS LUNCHEON Selected players will be available each Monday at the Rutgers Football Luncheon from 11:1512 noon in the stadium club of the Hale Center. CollegePressBox.com Collegepressbox.com is the official media website for BIG EAST football. Access and download weekly game notes, quotes, statistics, media guides and more for the conference and each of its eight member schools throughout the season. Login information will be distributed to accredited media or you can apply for a password by sending an e-mail to password@collegepressbox.com.
RUTGERS RADIO NETWORK All Rutgers football games will be broadcast over the Rutgers Radio Network to 50,000 watt WOR 710-AM in New York City, Central Jersey’s WCTC 1450-AM and 97.5 FM The Fanatic in Philadelphia and South Jersey. Play-by-play announcer Chris Carlin is well known to sports radio fans throughout the State of Rutgers. The 37-year-old Carlin is in his 10th year with the Rutgers Radio Network, including his seventh as the play-by-play voice of Rutgers Football. Carlin is also the play-by-play voice for Rutgers Basketball and is the host of the New York Mets pre-game and post-game shows on SportsNet New York and serves as co-host of two television shows on SNY - “Loud Mouths” and “Beer Money.” Former Rutgers standout quarterback Ray Lucas begins his second season as the color analyst on the Rutgers Radio Network. The seven-year NFL veteran has also been an analyst for SNY on their New York Jets programming since 1996. Anthony “Fooch” Fucilli returns for his seventh season as the Rutgers Radio Network sideline reporter. Fucilli is also a field producer and reporter for MSG Network since 1989. Marc Malusis is back for his second year as the pre-game and post-game host on the Rutgers Radio Network. The pre-game shows starts one hour prior to kickoff while the post-game show stays on the air one hour following the game.
Chris Carlin SNY Play-by-Play
Ray Lucas SNY Color Analyst
“R FOOTBALL” The 30-minute, feature-oriented television show, showcases the Rutgers football program, includes show narrator Bruce Beck of WNBC-4. “R Football” will air on SNY, The Comcast Network, Cox Cable New England, MASN and Sun Sports. For show dates and times, visit ScarletKnights.com.
Anthony Fucilli MSG TV Sideline Reporter
Marc Malusis WFAN/SNY Pre and Post-Game Host
Paul Shrager Producer/Engineer
RUTGERS FOOTBALL ON SNY SNY, the television home of the Mets and Jets, is the exclusive TV home of Rutgers football, which encompasses a weekly sitdown interview with head football coach Greg Schiano, his Tuesday afternoon press conference live, the Rutgers coaches show entitled “R Football” as well as exclusive re-air rights to Rutgers games. SNY’s studios are based in Manhattan and the network reaches over 11 million homes. The network is available nationally on DirecTV and Dish Network. SNY will air “Rutgers Rush Hour,” a 60-minute condensed version of the previous game Sunday mornings. SNY will also replay the entire game with “Tuesday Knight Football” on Tuesday nights throughout the season. SNY airs head coach Greg Schiano’s weekly press conference live every Tuesday during the season and also Rutgers’ National Signing Day Press Conference in February.
Kirk Herbstreit donned the Scarlet Knight mascot during an episode of ESPN’s College GameDay.