Rutgers coach Chris Ash addresses the media during Big Ten Media Days on Monday in Chicago.(Photo: David Banks-USA TODAY Sports) CHICAGO – Rutgers football players are getting a taste of what it must be like to play for Urban Meyer. Their new head coach is Chris Ash, who learned at the feet of the master the last two seasons as co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach for Ohio State. The fingerprints he’s put all over his new program will look and sound awfully familiar to Buckeye fans. “We have full meetings on intangible things like leadership and culture – hour-long meetings,” defensive lineman Julian Pinnix said Monday at Big Ten Media Days. “He’s really trying to build a culture from an intangible standpoint. From there the Xs and Os will come. “Coach Ash definitely rewards guys for doing the right thing as much as he’ll punish them for doing the wrong thing. Growing up in sports and being around sports a lot, I don’t know how much that is done. Everybody wants to talk about guys doing the wrong thing, but he does a great job of congratulating guys for doing community service and for being great in the class room and weight room and…
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