02-01-2024, 12:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-01-2024, 12:14 PM by OCcardinal.)
(01-31-2024, 08:24 PM)needle Wrote: Hafley taking on a defensive coordinator role in Green Bay. FWIW:
Quote: "He wants to go coach football again in a league that is all about football," a source told ESPN. "College coaching has become fundraising, NIL and recruiting your own team and transfers. There's no time to coach football anymore.
"A lot of things that he went back to college for have disappeared."
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/3942...-hafley-dc
Imagine setting up a pro league from scratch and coming up with what we have in college today:
- Coaches paid by the team, but athletes paid by the fans.
- No salary cap.
- You can only keep an athlete for 4 or 5 years and the athlete has the option to leave the team any year they want
- You have to recruit players to come play for your team while they are in high school, before you know how good they really are.
- If the athlete is as as good as you hope they'll probably leave for greener pastures and then you have to figure out how to poach a player from another team.
I can understand why a college coach would be attracted to the comparative stability of the NFL.