LAT: Coaching in NFL and CFB is the same, only WAY different

[dcpony]

LA Times.
Coaching in NFL and college is the same, only WAY different
Fields are the same, rules are too for the most part — but pro football is strictly business, with no recruiting, no fundraising, no parents ...



By Sam Farmer

December 10, 2013, 5:47 p.m.

They coach the same game, with the same-sized fields and same oblong ball. They both wear whistles, headsets and sunglasses that hide sleep-starved eyes closer to Xs than O's.

But the difference between being a head football coach in college and the NFL is like the difference between Wal-Mart and Wall Street.

"When you're in the NFL, and you're going to do something that's going to help you win, no one ever says, 'What does it cost?'" said Jerry Glanville, who coached at Portland State more than a decade after coaching the Houston Oilers and Atlanta Falcons.

"When you're in college and you say, 'I want to get this done,' they say, 'We don't have the funding. By the way, would you go raise the funding?'"

The differences go well beyond that, including the challenge of recruiting high school athletes, how the players interact with each other and the day-to-day responsibilities of the coaches.

"When kids get in trouble and screw up in college, everybody feels the responsibility for it," said Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll, USC's coach from 2001-09. "Here, it's more on the player. You don't feel so terrible because the players are grownups. They're getting paid, they're professional. They're supposed to take care of their own world.

"In college, they make everybody feel responsible for it. The [athletic director], the president, the head coach, everybody feels responsible."

http://www.latimes.com/sports/football/ ... z2nHbW1Jjg

http://www.latimes.com/sports/football/ ... z2nHbN8L9m

[dcpony]

Looks like June Jones is defying the odds.

Notable excerpt:

"What you have to have in a college coach is somebody who can absolutely bust his butt recruiting," said agent Bob LaMonte, who represents multiple NFL and college coaches. "I don't mean a little bit of the time. I mean 24/7, 365. The coach will sell his soul to the devil for time. He will not make it if he doesn't give his life over to recruiting.

"There's no end to the time you'll spend. If you don't do that, I guarantee you will fail as a head coach in college."

[Stallion]

that's our June-busting his butt 24/7/365 in recruiting. That should be his new nickname:

24/7/365Recruit

[dcpony]

June was quoted for this piece.

Excerpt:

A dozen years after he coached the Falcons, June Jones took over as coach at Southern Methodist. He said people are more willing to accept a coach going from the NFL to college than the opposite.

"Going from college to the pros, you get second-guessed on everything because you haven't been in the pros," Jones said. "The guy at Tampa [Schiano] won, and deserved the opportunity to get the Tampa job. And he's being criticized because it's different, and, 'you can't take the same approach as in college.'"

During the college football season or designated training periods, coaches can work with their players a maximum of 20 hours per week. In the NFL, there are no such time constraints, although players get one day off per week. However, that doesn't necessarily mean NFL offenses and defenses are more complex.

"I'd say the complexities of the game, to be quite honest, in college you see more things," Jones said. "When I was in the National Football League, it was pretty consistent. Everybody did the same things on defense. . . . In college, you see all kinds of weird things. Because coaches aren't afraid to try different things. So you see way more differences in the blitzes and alignments."

Regardless, there are fundamental differences between college and pro players. From Glanville's perspective, it takes just one bus ride to recognize that.

"In pro football, when you leave the hotel and you get on the bus to go to the game, it's total silence," he said. "If any conversation were to come up on that bus, it would be about a game assignment.

"When I went to Hawaii [as defensive coordinator under Jones], I was shocked. They were talking about other things. These kids are 18 years old — guy might be talking about his Game Boy. He'd say, 'I set a record on my toy here!' I'd be like, 'God, I can't take it!' You forget these kids have other lives that you're not involved in and don't want to be."

http://www.latimes.com/sports/football/ ... z2nHe7hq21

[redpony]

The coach will sell his soul to the devil for time.
"There's no end to the time you'll spend. If you don't do that, I guarantee you will fail as a head coach in college."

We've paid for the soul when does he start doing the time?

[feelthehorsepower]

The coach will sell his soul to the devil for time.
"There's no end to the time you'll spend. If you don't do that, I guarantee you will fail as a head coach in college."

We've paid for the soul when does he start doing the time?