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Mike Tverdov Talks Rutgers, New Staff

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There's always pressure in your family to go to the same school as your parents or your siblings, but one has to imagine that pressure amplifies when college football gets involved. However, Mike Tverdov, the younger brother of former Rutgers defensive lineman Pete Tverdov, says that his family is letting him make his own decision.

"There's not that much pressure on me to go to Rutgers," Tverdov told StateOfRutgers this week. "My brother doesn't push me to commit anywhere, including Rutgers, but ever since they hired Coach Ash, he's high them. He said it reminds him a lot of Greg Schiano and the toughness they had when he was at RU.