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It’s good work if you can get it
Written by Jim Metcalfe   
Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:35 PM

Why would they move?
I am referring to the recent job overtures from National Football League teams to some of the best college football coaches in America.
To me, why would a Chip Kelly, Nick Saban, etc., leave their cocoons where they are fabulously successful and well compensated, adored, loved, etc., to go to the NFL where many of the players will make more than they will and all of a sudden, he won’t be able to have near the influence as he did before and probably won’t be listened to as much anyway?

Just look at the National Basketball Association and how players can seemingly get coaches hired and fired seemingly at a moment’s notice. The powers-that-be deny this but they almost have to.

In the pros, you have such things as the salary cap and such that makes it more difficult to build a great team year after year, whereas in college, these guys can get almost anyone they really want and they don’t have to worry about resources.

 

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