Small school college football programs are already fighting what appears to be a losing battle.
Conference realignment, the transfer portal and NIL legislation have made it nearly impossible for a program without a sizable budget to compete with the big boys.
Now it appears the Football Bowl Subdivision Oversight Committee is on the verge of passing a new rule that would make like even more difficult for those programs.
Story: The next change in college football could be unlimited coaches.
Oversight committee votes next week.All those analysts and quality control could coach on the field.
“This is a hill the AFCA will die on,” Craig Bohl says. https://t.co/r7nb7Oysm0https://t.co/r7nb7Oysm0
— Chris Vannini (@ChrisVannini)
Chris Vannini of The Athletic reports that the committee “put forth a proposal this spring to remove the cap on how many of a program’s staffers can do on-field football coaching, while still limiting off-campus recruiting activities to 10 assistants (or 12 in the FCS) plus the head coach. This would mean hundreds of analysts and quality control coaches around the country could finally coach in practice, bringing a monumental change to the profession.”
Former Wyoming head coach Craig Bohl is the current executive director of the American Football Coaches Association and sits on the oversight committee.
Bohl told Vannini that the AFCA is insistent on the rule passing.
“This is a hill the AFCA will die on,” he said.
Bohl said that the coaches and the programs they represent acknowledge the lack of competitive balance. But they believe that it’s beyond fixing.
So instead, it appears they’re ready to lean all the way into the opposite direction.
Cincinnati coach Scott Satterfield said that some programs are already ignoring the current rules, so there’s no choice but to change them.
“One compliance department is not allowing anybody outside the 10 to coach, but another doesn’t look at what they’re doing,” Satterfield said. “The inconsistency is frustrating to the coaches doing it right.”
If that’s the case, what choice do teams have?
Will Power 4* (*2) conferences grab more coaches from the Group of 5 like they have with players? Probably.
But the toothpaste is out of the tube by now. There’s no going back in.
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