Historic College Football Program Loses Multiple Athletes in Hours After Head Coach Quits
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This had a slight discussion in the Coaching carousel thread since it was a coaching change in the CFB ranks
That link is paywalled, but it's really a stretch to call Bowling Green a "Historic College Football Program"
They've played college football for a century, what more do you want?
don't blame him, post-NIL that's a brutual place to coach
Any of those players we might want?
Pretty confident we already took their best player in Terion Stewart
I mean I can't blame him. Even when he was here we all said that Loeffler would make a much better NFL coach than college. The offense he wanted to run was too complex for the college game, or at least too complex for players to pick up fully in the 4 years they'd be in college. And now he's stepping into a great spot to coach one of the 2 QBs under 30 who have won the Super Bowl, who relied heavily at identifying a defense at the LOS and audibling into the correct play. Loeffler could have just set himself up for a very nice future with this gig.
I would literally do ANYTHING else for comparable money vs. being a modern P4 college football or hoops head coach. Anything. There are virtually no rules, there is unlimited free agency, and the best players simply go to the highest bidder. If you ARE the highest bidder, that last for at most one season, then you have to find even more money next year. Fuck that.
Agreed. I know we all collectively are frustrated that VT is struggling to keep up in this new modern era of college football, but even with all the money, being a P4 head coach has to be an absolutely awful job these days. Probably working 80+ hour weeks and having to constantly worry about kissing recruits' butts and fending off other teams from poaching your players, schmoozing with donors and doing media events, also don't forget actually coaching and developing a football team (conditioning, practice, scouting, game prep, etc.) - managing and dealing with those players on a day to day basis. And somehow finding a minute to spend with your family between all of that.
Brutal. I think the only way to make it bearable is do the Clemson and Bama models... have 500 support staff and win a fuck ton of games- which is the best recruiting tool. Dabo has 100 people to monitor the portal if he wanted to. Saban had NFL coaches as gophers.
Best job Butch Jones ever had.
Remember when he quit looking for 5 star athletes and just wanted athletes with 5 star hearts? Pretty sure that was the beginning of the end at Tennessee.
"National champions of life"
And all of that just to make a small fraction of what the same job would pay at the NFL level. The top NFL coordinator is now Chip Kelly making $6m a year, twice as much as the highest in college, which is just going to drive up the average salaries everywhere. The top NFL head coach, Andy Reid, makes $20m a year, with everyone in the Top 10 making over $10m per year.
Its just a no-brainer. If you enjoy coaching, do whatever you can to get into the NFL. Less responsibilities and bullshit for a much higher pay.
Just imagine if we had Justin Fuente as our HC in THIS era...yikes
We'd be outrecruited by community colleges.
Im not sure how much worse are recruiting can get, but we're bottom half of the ACC as it is