PISCATAWAY – Memory says it was almost every day that first camp.

Greg Schiano patrolling the bleachers, megaphone in hand, bellowing out the one player’s name. Sometimes the whole “Damaso Munoz!” Sometimes just “Munoz!” But always sharply, and absolutely always more than any other player’s.

“What?!” Devin McCourty said. Snorting from a seat over, the fifth-year senior cornerback shook his head and said memory’s wrong: “Coach Schiano loves Damaso. He’s always loved Damaso.”

Okay, five years is a while for memories to stay sharp. And for where Munoz is now, his once having incessantly net Schiano’s wrath does sound odd. But the megaphone and those scoldings aren’t made-up – and neither is McCourty’s claim.

“I think ‘Coach’ always saw something in me and so he was hard on me,” Munoz said. “But it was cool. It never bothered me that he yelled. It’s why I am who I am now.”

Who he is is just that something. He’s a three-year starter and stalwart in Rutgers’ linebacking corps, the one with the driest sense of humor, an uncanny knack for the ball (“Look at all the defense’s big play pictures – he’s in every one,” McCourty said) and yes, a player Schiano has to love.

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