That doesn't mean his players aren't motivated by last season's struggles. Anyone who watched a minute of the Scarlet Knights' summer workouts — which were on display on Rutgers' various social media streams — knows that.
"I think from the players there was (motivation),'' Ash said. "We just went through a 2-10 season. We didn’t discuss last year much, but after the season — when we had our first team meeting we went through a list of things we had to accomplish if we were going to have success — we went back and if you look at that checklist we didn’t make it.