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<blockquote data-quote="mhuml32" data-source="post: 2008025" data-attributes="member: 3621"><p>(1) The doom-and-gloom from certain CFB talking heads about this changing dynamic is so odd to me. We went almost 20 years where college football head coaches, working at "non-profits" were being paid more, sometimes many magnitudes more, than head coaches in the most lucrative, for-profit sport enterprise on the planet. Almost no CFB or NFL writer was complaining about that distortion of economics.</p><p></p><p>(2) As of today, we've had a total of three college coaches jump to the NFL, with one other publicly leaked as interviewing for coordinator positions. One has been heavily rumored to the NFL for many years (Harbaugh), to the point where he was actively manipulating his contract to allow for a quick transition to the NFL. He said at his press conference that his plan was to return Michigan to the national stage and then go back to try to win a Super Bowl. Two others were/are on serious hot seats and were very likely to be fired after this coming season (Hafley and Kelly). Hafley spent the great majority of the past 12 years in the NFL, got a massive raise to become Ohio State's DC, got another massive raise to become BC's head coach, and now is going to back to the NFL after he saw the writing on the wall. Chip Kelly has been vocal about his distaste for the changes in college football and it's an open secret he doesn't like recruiting. That's what motivated him to jump to the Eagles from Oregon. He flamed out in the NFL, so he went back to college because that's where he was garnering interest. He's still trying to get back to the NFL as an OC, which seems like a great fit for him. Yesterday we saw Liam Coen go from UK OC to Bucs OC. He's another guy with recent and strong experience in the NFL. There are articles out there that he went to UK because McVay wasn't sure if he was going to retire and he told his coaching staff to seek out other employment as a means self-preservation. So Coen leaves for a year, and now goes back to the NFL.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If we start seeing college football coaches with zero or limited NFL experience jumping to the pros, then some of these articles can have merit. That said, even if we do, why does that matter? The arguments about the changes in college athletics is fait accompli, no one is arguing otherwise. But that people are pointing to the current CFB coaching market to sound the alarm just shows how far out of economic position we have become for realistically viewing the college football enterprise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mhuml32, post: 2008025, member: 3621"] (1) The doom-and-gloom from certain CFB talking heads about this changing dynamic is so odd to me. We went almost 20 years where college football head coaches, working at "non-profits" were being paid more, sometimes many magnitudes more, than head coaches in the most lucrative, for-profit sport enterprise on the planet. Almost no CFB or NFL writer was complaining about that distortion of economics. (2) As of today, we've had a total of three college coaches jump to the NFL, with one other publicly leaked as interviewing for coordinator positions. One has been heavily rumored to the NFL for many years (Harbaugh), to the point where he was actively manipulating his contract to allow for a quick transition to the NFL. He said at his press conference that his plan was to return Michigan to the national stage and then go back to try to win a Super Bowl. Two others were/are on serious hot seats and were very likely to be fired after this coming season (Hafley and Kelly). Hafley spent the great majority of the past 12 years in the NFL, got a massive raise to become Ohio State's DC, got another massive raise to become BC's head coach, and now is going to back to the NFL after he saw the writing on the wall. Chip Kelly has been vocal about his distaste for the changes in college football and it's an open secret he doesn't like recruiting. That's what motivated him to jump to the Eagles from Oregon. He flamed out in the NFL, so he went back to college because that's where he was garnering interest. He's still trying to get back to the NFL as an OC, which seems like a great fit for him. Yesterday we saw Liam Coen go from UK OC to Bucs OC. He's another guy with recent and strong experience in the NFL. There are articles out there that he went to UK because McVay wasn't sure if he was going to retire and he told his coaching staff to seek out other employment as a means self-preservation. So Coen leaves for a year, and now goes back to the NFL. If we start seeing college football coaches with zero or limited NFL experience jumping to the pros, then some of these articles can have merit. That said, even if we do, why does that matter? The arguments about the changes in college athletics is fait accompli, no one is arguing otherwise. But that people are pointing to the current CFB coaching market to sound the alarm just shows how far out of economic position we have become for realistically viewing the college football enterprise. [/QUOTE]
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