The gall of Norries Wilson. I'll tell you, in all my years of not giving a fuck about what gets said at a press conference, I have never been as appalled as I am right now. Telling professional media members not to scream over one another? Making them attach their name and credentials to every stupid question they ask? Demanding respect for the man he's replacing by making a person refer to Kyle Flood by his job title? Refusing to expand on questions that he didn't know the answer to because he had yet to watch the game film? Commanding the room and answering every question asked of him instead of having a bunch of media members yell shit without raising their hand like the most chaotic third grade class in history? Who does this guy think he is? A Running Backs coach that was thrown into the fire of coaching in front of 100,000 people on three days notice? A man that is an Assistant Head Coach in name only because it makes the program look better when he takes over for the guy that got suspended for writing papers for a semi-literate student athlete that can't even pass 'Dance Appreciation' on his own? How dare he expect a bunch of headline hungry reporters to act like adults.
I can't believe that Norries Wilson wasn't completely receptive to earth shattering questions like "What was the day like?". Ryan from the 'Asbury Park Press' comin' in hot with that one. You almost have to try to come up with an inquiry that vague. What the fuck is the appropriate response to that? If I were Norries Wilson I would have told that entire room that I beat off 6 times that day to get rid of the game day jitters that i was experiencing from being forced into a position I wasn't fully prepared to handle. How's that for an answer Ryan. Hmm, let's see, any other great questions? Oh how about "are you having fun coaching the team that just lost by nearly four touchdowns?". Yes, Josh from the 'R Football Show, I am sure Norries is having a blast coaching a football team on Saturday when the actual coach is the one coaching them all week. I am sure he's like a kid in a candy store being the figurehead for a program in the midst of unprecedented turmoil. I am sure his promotion from worrying about 4-6 players to worrying about 100 players isn't at all overwhelming. I bet if you asked him before the season started if he wanted the entire starting secondary to get arrested, the All-Big Ten wide receiver to get suspended indefinitely for suplexing a woman, and the coach to get suspended for three games (but really just 3 days) just to give him a chance to run the team he would have gladly taken that trade off. I know it's hard to support for the New Jersey media to support the State University, but they shouldn't be surprised when a grown man in a precarious situation treats them like children when they asked childish questions. I am as big a supporter of Rutgers giving Hayden Rettig a chance to play as anyone, but if you didn't laugh when Norries Wilson responded to the question "Why didn't Hayden Rettig play?" with "Because I didn't put him in" then you probably need something dead removed from your ass. That answer alone just made me want to rip the interim tag away from current job description. One press conference and already more straight forward and honest than Kyle Flood has been in any presser since he has taken over the program. They say that the most popular person in a football program is the backup quarterback, and while that may be true, Rutgers backup Head Coach is a close, close second. 
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