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Greg Schiano just changed the trajectory for this Rutgers program. Now what? | Politi Greg Schiano didn’t get a Gatorade bath after his first victory at Rutgers in almost nine years, but a half hour after this 38-27 stunner over Michigan State was in the books, he brought a bucket of ice water to his press conference. This isn’t Schiano’s first rodeo. The head coach knows that plenty of people in his fan base and the media (ahem) might be guilty of going overboard after one Big Ten victory. This is not the time to look too far into the future, even if flights to Pasadena for early January are just $263 out of Newark right now. I kid, I kid! So before we could all get too carried away, the coach wisely decided to turn down the music at his own party. “It’s great to get started with a victory, but we’ve got to make sure we keep it all in perspective,” Schiano said from East Lansing. “We have a lot of work to do. We know that. It’s a good start, but that’s really what it is -- a