Nearly 30 college football coaches have left for the NFL this offseason and that may be just the beginning
College Football is still the best sport in the world, but it has a major problem on its hands. Being a college football coach in this modern era is nearly impossible. At least that's what many coaches are saying across the country. And they're not just complaining. They're leaving the sport entirely for the grass […]
College Football is still the best sport in the world, but it has a major problem on its hands. Being a college football coach in this modern era is nearly impossible. At least that's what many coaches are saying across the country. And they're not just complaining. They're leaving the sport entirely for the grass that is quite obviously greener on the NFL side.
Nearly 30 college football coaches have already departed for the NFL since the conclusion of the college football regular season. Jim Harbaugh and Jeff Hafley (of Boston College) left their head coaching positions. More than 25 other assistant coaches across the country left their programs to join the NFL. Nearly half of them took demotions (in terms of title) to do so.
Both Pete Thamel and Adam Schefter of ESPN reported this morning that they continue to hear from many college football coaches who want to leave their near impossible state of existence in college to join the NFL where things are actually surprisingly simple by comparison.
It's great that players can now rightly be compensated for their hard work as college football players, but the changes to NIL (name, image, and likeness) regulations and transfer portal rules have created an environment that is quite complicated to manage.
Coaches are left trying to re-recruit their entire rosters every offseason to keep their players out of the transfer portal. They're forced to juggle the truth that their school's NIL collective absolutely needs to pay certain players on their team, but coaches "can't use it as a recruiting inducement" according to the insane ramblings of the NCAA.
It's a whole new world for coaches, and it seems many are done staying quiet, putting their heads down working 100+ hours a week and still falling short of expectations.
Most would assume that as college teams head into spring football practices the dust has settled on coaches leaving, but just this morning USC's running back coach Kiel McDonald left to join Jim Harbaugh and the Los Angeles Chargers.
Expect this trend of mass coaching exodus to continue until things change in the college football landscape.
