College football coaching needs fixed badly
I love college football. I was born and raised in Tennessee and old enough to remember when UT won the national championship. I have seen Navy beat Notre Dame. I have watched some amazing games, heartbreaking ones, and enjoyed it all. That said, I believe that there are some changes that the colleges themselves need to change. No, this is not about the athletes, as my opinion of NIL was agreeable before it was even introduced because of the way that the NCAA profits off them and how they treated Reggie Bush. The coaches, on the other hand, are an area that needs some examining.
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The majority of college coaches are given contracts that are amazing any way that you look at them. These people who are becoming public employees are paid millions, even if they are fired. There have been several times that the people of states end up paying millions because universities fired multiple coaches and their athletic department could not handle it at all. Coaches that are fired head over to another college, get paid less to keep getting money, and there is no value.
Another issue that needs changing is the firing of coaches that have winning records. I am sorry, but if a coach is getting their team to a bowl game every year, why fire them? Not every team can compete for a national championship, so quit thinking they can. If a team wins eight to ten games a year, that is not the time to fire a coach. For that matter, if they are having a winning season regularly, quit wanting them gone.
Take a look at Jimbo Fisher for being paid far too much. He has turned the Texas A&M football team into an easy win for so many in the SEC, but he is getting paid so much that it is not cost effective to fire him. To fire him at the end of this season will be over seventy million dollars. Why do this? This needs to change, as the regular people are looking at this and scratching their heads.
Mark Richt was fired from Georgia after having a 9–3 season, as he could not move the team to the next level. Never mind that Georgia was a feared team, he was not winning enough. Yes, Georgia lucked out and has their record now, but what’s to say Richt could not have done it. This was a waste of money and uncalled for. Another coach to have this happen was Gus Malzahn, who had eight winning seasons when he was let go. They are currently calling for Ryan Day to be fired from Ohio State, even though his team is a power that normally plays in the College Football Playoff.
We need to stop the insanity that is the college football coaching stupidity. If a coach is winning, they need to be kept. They should not be hand contracts that are so high that people have to save money to have a chance to see one game a year. There needs to be some common sense instilled into the sport and this is one area that should have it started, especially for state universities.
