A spring tradition is returning to Rutgers football. On Monday’s media call with head coach Greg Schiano, he confirmed that the annual spring awards that were discontinued in 2016 by former coach Chris Ash have been reinstated.
“We are going to have the spring awards. I always thought that was a nice thing for the guys to receive. It honored some guys that maybe otherwise wouldn’t have that opportunity to be honored. We’ll bring those back.”
The spring awards were decades old before Ash got rid of them in his first offseason on the banks. They likely would have returned last year after Schiano returned to Rutgers, but spring practice was cancelled due to COVID-19.