re: What is the pathway to becoming a coach in the NFL?

I've coached at high school and college level. Unless you played at a high level or have some great connections, you would have to be willing to get paid next to nothing for at least a few years, live in provided housing (probably on campus) and be around a program that has success. And those "volunteer" and internship jobs at the college level aren't gimmes. It's extremely competitive and TONS of people are applying for each opening...just to be an intern...and becoming a GA is even tougher.

College coaches also (obviously) must be willing to relocate at any time. Not easy for the majority of college coaches (FCS and lower).

BRCC is the place to start

That's the route most coaches take. Play college or pro and tell your coach you're interested and they'll either let you GA at your school or find somewhere else for you to go. shite Joey Porter is the Steelers LBs coach and I'm fairly certain he wouldn't do any thing listed in that article to get a job


I had a coach in HS tell me to let him know if I ever wanted to get into coaching, which coaching did interest me but I've seen some of the dumb shite the coaches go through at the HS level and how hard it was to move up and was like "nah"