What's new
AllBuffs | Unofficial fan site for the University of Colorado at Boulder Athletics programs

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • Prime Time. Prime Time. Its a new era for Colorado football. Consider signing up for a club membership! For $20/year, you can get access to all the special features at Allbuffs, including club member only forums, dark mode, avatars and best of all no ads ! But seriously, please sign up so that we can pay the bills. No one earns money here, and we can use your $20 to keep this hellhole running. You can sign up for a club membership by navigating to your account in the upper right and clicking on "Account Upgrades". Make it happen!

15 reasons NFL coaches don't want to become college football coaches

MiamiBuffs

YYZ
Club Member
2. Recruiting takes forever.

NFL media types have the notion that college coaches spend summer shootin' the breeze on the golf course. Maybe Steve Spurrier does.

College coaches spend every hour not devoted to team stuff or sleeping/eating stuff on evaluating high schoolers and telling them where to attend college.

"When you're a college coach and the last game is done and then the bowl game comes, you don't have a month off," Chip Kelly has said. "I would argue my schedule was more hectic from a recruiting standpoint than it [is with the Eagles]."

5. Recruiting is hard.

When an NFL team wants a player, it tells him he'll love it here and this roster is one piece away from championships. But it often just offers him more money.

When a college team wants a player, it tells him he'll love it here and this roster is one piece away from championships. But it often just offers him more money; don't get caught.

7. Coaching college players is hard.

While NFL players don't have to practice around the clock, they have to treat football as a full-time job.

College players, usually full-time college students, can only ("only") practice for 20 hours a week, tops. Coaches often literally don't have time to fix the bad habits and poor technique those players picked up in high school. Fans do not accept this as an excuse.

8. Recruiting is unfair.

If your college team is bad, good recruits won't want to play for it. College football is designed for your 0-12 team to maybe go 5-7 once you get your system implemented and can thus be fired.

If your NFL team is the worst in the whole league, you are given the No. 1 recruit with no strings attached. The NFL is designed for every team to finish between 7-9 and 9-7, and who fires a coach with nine wins? Nebraska, a college team, that's who.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-foo...9/nfl-college-coaches-jim-harbaugh-chip-kelly
 
Number 7? could it be said its easier to teach a player a position correctly then to change bad habits that a kid has been playing with 6+ years?
 
Haha.

It all comes down to how much you enjoy recruiting when comparing the two.

A big reason Saban returned to college was roster management.

He didn't like that he was saddled with guys under long-term contracts that would be cap hits should he decide to cut them.

He liked how he got to turn over almost 1/3 of his roster every year at the college level.
 
Haha.

It all comes down to how much you enjoy recruiting when comparing the two.

A big reason Saban returned to college was roster management.

He didn't like that he was saddled with guys under long-term contracts that would be cap hits should he decide to cut them.

He liked how he got to turn over almost 1/3 of his roster every year at the college level.

My dad went to UF and is a life long Dolphin season ticket holder. To him Saban's name is missing a T.
 
My dad went to UF and is a life long Dolphin season ticket holder. To him Saban's name is missing a T.

It all came down to a mistake at QB.

Saban & the Miami brass decided that taking a risk on Daunte Culpepper's surgically-repaired knee was a better bet than taking a risk on Drew Brees's surgically-repaired throwing shoulder.

We all know how that turned out. Saban realized that the NFL is almost completely about whether you get the QB position right and that a major ****up there takes years from which to recover.
 
It all came down to a mistake at QB.

Saban & the Miami brass decided that taking a risk on Daunte Culpepper's surgically-repaired knee was a better bet than taking a risk on Drew Brees's surgically-repaired throwing shoulder.

We all know how that turned out. Saban realized that the NFL is almost completely about whether you get the QB position right and that a major ****up there takes years from which to recover.

Yeah. That was a very ugly time to be a Dolphin. I dont think Nicky had any say over personel. Randy Mueller was GM. I think Parcells fired him when he showed up.
 
Pro coaches are hired to be fired.

Lots of turnover at the college level as well but as long as you are making progress you can count on 4-5 years and a lot of coaches manage to get in 8-10 years someplace or more if they can build a solid program. Build that solid program and recruiting gets easier and you get more stable.

Pro coaches have to deal with the reverse order of the draft and the salary cap making their rosters inconsistent and job stability almost non-existant. How many pro coaches are around with the same team3-4 years after being in a super bowl?

College coaches also nominally have to report to their AD's and university administration but usually the show is theirs. They get to pick the players they recruit, handle discipline, manage assistants, etc.

NFL coaches have a GM making player decisions and more and more have a "hands on" owner who thinks he knows more about football than they do.

I don't think it is a coincidence that not many coaches who move either direction have a great deal of success. Some do but for many the jobs are to different and they are only suited for one or the other.
 
Back
Top