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Nick Saban isn't thrilled about any potential NCAA action regarding staff sizes
Posted on 4/15/17 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 4/15/17 at 4:24 pm
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Could the NCAA make a move to limit the size of support staff a top-level football team employs?
As the sanctioning body approved a 10th assistant coach for coaching staffs beginning in 2018, discussion regarding the number of people a program utilizes quickly became a discussion. Big 12 commissioner and Football Oversight Committee chairman Bob Bowlsby said the committee would look at the sizes of support staffs in the upcoming year and that one unnamed program employed 97 people.
“I think that door has been open for a while,” Bowlsby said via Al.com. “We’re seeing very large staff. We see non-coaching personnel doing coaching duties. It is one of our two priorities for the Football Oversight Committee for the coming year … looking at personnel and how personnel should be deployed in the football coaching staff environment.”
It’s fair to assume that the program with nearly 100 support positions is a big revenue program, possibly Alabama. After all, Alabama coach Nick Saban has hired former FBS coaches like Steve Sarkisian and Mike Locksley to analyst positions. Analysts can help with play design and game-planning but they can’t have a coaching role.
On Friday, Saban was happy that he would be able to officially add a 10th assistant coach next season. But he wasn’t too happy with any dive the NCAA and its committees could be doing to potentially limit the size of support staffs. From Bama Insider:
“All these people that complain about staff sizes, I mean, we pay interns really, really little money,” Saban said. “Very small amount of money. You would be shocked at how cheap the labor really is. It’s almost criminal. And why we have administrators complaining about how many cheap labor people you have, trying to promote the profession, trying to do something to develop our game and the coaches in the game, because how else do you develop guys?”
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Posted on 4/15/17 at 4:49 pm to Street Hawk
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“All these people that complain about staff sizes, I mean, we pay interns really, really little money,” Saban said. “Very small amount of money. You would be shocked at how cheap the labor really is. It’s almost criminal. And why we have administrators complaining about how many cheap labor people you have, trying to promote the profession, trying to do something to develop our game and the coaches in the game, because how else do you develop guys?”
We have lousy salaries, the worst salaries, let me tell you.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 4:53 pm to Street Hawk
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NCAA: Motherfricker! We're doing all we can not to pay these a-hole players and you're spending cash left and right employing the whole goddamn town. What the hell is wrong with you? Are you stupid?!?
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Saban: shite, my bad. I'll just tell everybody these coaches are working for free. People are morons, they'll buy it.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 4:55 pm to Street Hawk
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Nick Saban isn't thrilled
Water is wet
Posted on 4/15/17 at 5:34 pm to Street Hawk
There is a reason most college football programs still lose money even though t.v. contracts are paying out at ridiculous sums.
Like the government, spending is out of control. Coaches, "advisors", academic and health/training support, clothes and recruiting budget, high tech video equipment, facilities, satellite camps, travel and on and on. It's out of control. Gotta keep up or we'll lose the competitive advantage.
And the bigger problem is once you let that Jeannie out of the bottle the big money power ain't gonna let you put it back in. It's too far gone.
So what you're gonna see is more and bigger weight rooms, "academic centers", nutrition centers, indoor practice facilities, practice fields, administrative staffs, training facilities, etc. and every time someone else builds a new one...hell the volleyball team can use the old facilities time for us to up the ante...we gotta keep up!
Like the government, spending is out of control. Coaches, "advisors", academic and health/training support, clothes and recruiting budget, high tech video equipment, facilities, satellite camps, travel and on and on. It's out of control. Gotta keep up or we'll lose the competitive advantage.
And the bigger problem is once you let that Jeannie out of the bottle the big money power ain't gonna let you put it back in. It's too far gone.
So what you're gonna see is more and bigger weight rooms, "academic centers", nutrition centers, indoor practice facilities, practice fields, administrative staffs, training facilities, etc. and every time someone else builds a new one...hell the volleyball team can use the old facilities time for us to up the ante...we gotta keep up!
Posted on 4/15/17 at 5:42 pm to Walking the Earth
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quote: NCAA: Motherfricker! We're doing all we can not to pay these a-hole players and you're spending cash left and right employing the whole goddamn town. What the hell is wrong with you? Are you stupid?!? quote: Saban: shite, my bad. I'll just tell everybody these coaches are working for free. People are morons, they'll buy it.
Except all his p,alters are getting paid too
Posted on 4/15/17 at 6:12 pm to Street Hawk
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“All these people that complain about staff sizes, I mean, we pay interns really, really little money,” Saban said. “Very small amount of money. You would be shocked at how cheap the labor really is. It’s almost criminal.
Trickle-down economics at work
Posted on 4/15/17 at 6:29 pm to CaptainBrannigan
I don't understand how Sark, while on a shadow staff, sat in the coach's booth during games, went into the locker room on game day and did everything a staffer could do short of recruiting. How is that legal?
Posted on 4/15/17 at 8:03 pm to Street Hawk
It's easy to keep these salaries low when these coaches are still being paid by the colleges that just fired them.
Posted on 4/16/17 at 4:23 am to Street Hawk
I like how the NCAA is clearly doing this with an eye on these analyst positions, yet Saban's opinion tries to spin it and attempts to make it all about low paid interns instead.
Posted on 4/16/17 at 6:19 am to Street Hawk
What's his point? If they limited shadow staff size then they'd be able to pay the interns more, right?
This post was edited on 4/16/17 at 6:20 am
Posted on 4/16/17 at 7:32 am to Street Hawk
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unnamed program employed 97 people
Holy Sheyat, that's more jobs than an Unnamed President created in his 8 years in the Office!
Posted on 4/16/17 at 8:18 am to SeeeeK
Good
This post was edited on 4/16/17 at 8:19 am
Posted on 4/16/17 at 10:17 am to Street Hawk
It's not a college football off season without Saban whining about something that chips away at the competitive advantage he has created.
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