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I shoulda went into football coaching
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:20 am
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:20 am
It’s the best gig in sports. Be in the top 25 names in college football, have sexton as your agent, and you’re rrriiiich biiiitch.
Even if they fire you!
Even if they fire you!
This post was edited on 12/6/25 at 9:21 am
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Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:22 am to CrystalPreserves
As long as you are cool with never seeing your family and working 13 hour days
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:25 am to CrystalPreserves
And not to be mean, but these aren’t exactly the highest IQ individuals either. Some are smart guys. But majority of them are making way way way above their intellect level.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:27 am to josh336
quote:thats fine. Theres a lot i’d be willing to do to make that money.
As long as you are cool with never seeing your family and working 13 hour days
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:30 am to CrystalPreserves
There’s only around 130 D1-A jobs and most of them aren’t great. 32 NFL teams. You’re in the spotlight if you are a head coach.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:34 am to josh336
That's not even the problem.
What keeps more people from chasing this as a viable career is the first 5-6 years, unless you have a solid connect, you're making zilch. That's $0.00 or maybe a low level analyst salary. Talking maybe $30K at a bigger program.
Who in their late 20s or early 30s wants to be making 30-40K waiting for a break? Nah.
And lets not forget. This phenomenon of young coaches is a recent thing. Most of those dudes were in their 40s being coordnators and considered young.
What keeps more people from chasing this as a viable career is the first 5-6 years, unless you have a solid connect, you're making zilch. That's $0.00 or maybe a low level analyst salary. Talking maybe $30K at a bigger program.
Who in their late 20s or early 30s wants to be making 30-40K waiting for a break? Nah.
And lets not forget. This phenomenon of young coaches is a recent thing. Most of those dudes were in their 40s being coordnators and considered young.
This post was edited on 12/6/25 at 9:34 am
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:41 am to josh336
13 hours a day in the off season. During the season they are working way more than 13 hours a day.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:43 am to CrystalPreserves
being the top 10-25 fb coach in college football is kinda hard though
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:44 am to CrystalPreserves
Most coaches don’t make jack shite baw. You probably couldn’t event get a middle school football coaching gig
It’s a crazy grind before you actually start making decent money
It’s a crazy grind before you actually start making decent money
This post was edited on 12/6/25 at 9:45 am
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:51 am to TigerAttorney
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And not to be mean, but these aren’t exactly the highest IQ individuals either. Some are smart guys. But majority of them are making way way way above their intellect level.
I’ve thought about this a lot. Especially from talent acquisition, playcalling, game planning perspective.
I think you’re seeing an increased openness to non players in the data and analytics side. More and more brainy guys creating algorithms to acquire potential talent.
I’m just not sure how the smarter guys who would make better tacticians and play callers ever breakthrough on a large scale.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:52 am to CrystalPreserves
It’s extremely hard to make it. I was in coaching for 20 years coached on the college level for five years. It’s very hard to make it extremely hard to make it to the highest level and yes, starting out you make little to no money. I was a full-time position coach at a 1-AA school, and I made $19,500. Now that’s not normal I was young and was the lowest man on the totem pole but that’s a job that people would literally kill for. So many things have to break your way for you to make it on the highest level.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:52 am to SammyTiger
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being the top 10-25 fb coach in college football is kinda hard though
Hell, if I get close I can be a top coordinator. Look at the going rate for one of those.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 9:55 am to Pelican fan99
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You probably couldn’t event get a middle school football coaching gig
Baw, Les Miles and Ed O aren’t at the top of any standardized test scores. I promise. Just looking at those two and how much they hauled away from LSU. It gives a regular baw hope.
It can be done.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 10:29 am to CrystalPreserves
Dude, you'd still be equipment manager at the high school level. There's no money in that.
Posted on 12/6/25 at 10:31 am to CrystalPreserves
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It’s the best gig in sports.
bruh, you have no idea how hard the really good ones have to work to get to that level...
it's a grind, and even with as much as they make, i don't really envy them
Posted on 12/6/25 at 10:31 am to CrystalPreserves
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Be in the top 25 names in college football, have sexton as your agent, and you’re rrriiiich biiiitch.
If you’re a top 25 CEO or attorney or something like that you make 5x what a top 25 football coach makes and you make $100k a year at 25 not $0.00 at 25 like football coaches
Dumb thread is dumb
Posted on 12/6/25 at 10:43 am to extremelsu
Money ain't worth being away from family that much. 12 hr days are bad enough
Posted on 12/6/25 at 12:21 pm to CrystalPreserves
Football coaching or Congress as a representative senator. Politics where your salary doesn’t matter you will still get to a net worth of 10 million over a few years like MTG and retire at a young age
Posted on 12/6/25 at 1:26 pm to CrystalPreserves
You will have a much longer career on Tigerdroppings!
Posted on 12/6/25 at 1:32 pm to CrystalPreserves
quote:Yeah this isn’t an easy thing to do
Be in the top 25 names in college football, have sexton as your agent
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