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I think it's killing a lot of coaches.

Being a coach at a major P5 school is already a 24/7 job. When you're not playing, you're recruiting and so on.

But this added layer of having to basically keep recruiting the kids that are already on your roster to keep them from transferring, the power shift in a teenager having 6 figures in their bank account, and the list goes on.

I have to imagine being a head coach right now is the biggest fricking headache and most time consuming job you could imagine.

College coaching is becoming a young man's game more than ever now.

Agree completely.

You are the most accomplished HC in a generation...maybe ever. But in addition to what you always had to deal with as a college HC, you constantly have 18, 19, 20 year old and their "hanger on" families leveraging you as free agents. The 4 star backup RG comes into your office and says he wants more money or he's transferring. The guy is a good prospect. You think you can develop him into a great player. But he hasn't done shite to date and now he's making bigger demands to which if you cave it starts a waterfall of bigger demands. If you don't cave, he walks, and now you are in a bit of a bind in trying to replace him.

The NFL has it's own headaches. But it does have some degree of certainty with the rosters because of employment contracts. There is also an offseason that coaches can enjoy. You aren't forced to spend every weekend in May in ghettos across the country listening to demands from families that don't have a pot to piss in and basically begging a kid to join your team. A kid who will very likely try to leverage you for a bigger contract after one season.

I think what separated Saban from most is he LIKED the grind of recruiting. But once perpetual "contract negotiations" became an every day part of the game it wasn't worth it anymore for a guy who has nothing left to accomplish/prove.