Bing's hit highlights Rutgers scrimmage
Keith Sargeant • August 21, 2010
All signs point to Brandon Bing being Rutgers' starting cornerback to open the 2010 season. (MyCentralJersey.com file photo)
Had Brandon Bing not drilled Jeremy Deering after the freshman wideout attempted to reach the first-down marker following his reception, the scrum that low-lighted Rutgers' intrasquad scrimmage would never have happened.
""Blame me," Bing said, laughing. ""I'm the scapegoat."
Bing's forced fumble was quickly snapped up by Joe Lefeged, who raced 49 yards for a touchdown midway through the scrimmage. As Lefeged was about to cross paydirt, fellow safety Khaseem Greene knocked a trailing Tom Savage to the turf even though the Rutgers quarterback was deemed untouchable.
Savage quickly got up, but not before offensive linemen Desmond Wynn and Desmond Stapleton came to his rescue, knocking Greene to the turf and causing a dozen-player pile-on in the end zone.
""I wasn't trying to get in there; I was trying to pull people off," Savage said. ""I thought someone was going to swing at me so I got out of there. It was pretty vicious. And you know those (defensive) guys — they always want to hit me with the green jersey on. They've been wanting to do that all spring and camp.
""No big deal, though. It's just football. (Greene) just didn't know the situation."
Lost in the play was Bing's hit, which was one of the highlights of the 3-hour scrimmage.
""I just gotta make plays," Bing said. ""Like I've been saying the whole summer, I can't just try to make a play. I have to make it. I feel like plays are going to come to me and I just have to execute it when there's opportunity."
Bing started with the first-team defense just like he has since the start of training camp, and all indications point to the 5-foot-11, 180-pound senior starting the Sept. 2 opener against Norfolk State.
Asked about the cornerback competition following the scrimmage, Schiano said it's ""very close."
""When you go right through the depth," the Scarlet Knights coach offered, ""I think Brandon, David (Rowe), Juice (Brandon Jones), Logan (Ryan) and (Marcus) Cooper (are still in the mix). No one really has jumped out and played great. But they've all played solid, so that makes it hard to distinguish."
For Bing, the chance to prove himself worthy of the starter's role is all he can ask for heading into the final week of training camp.
""For myself, I just have to focus on the small details — stop making small mistakes and strive for perfection," Bing said. ""As a senior, I can't be making these mistakes. Show my consistency and just clean up on the schematic errors and the mental errors that I tend to have. Just focus in on the last few days of camp, and make some plays."
Posted in RU football. Tags: Brandon Bing, defense, Tom Savage on August 21, 2010 by Keith Sargeant.
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