I was listening to a sports call-in show the other morning and the host made an interesting point.
In the NFL, the coaches pick the players. In college, the players pick the coaches.
He tried to generalize and say that's why all the college coaches are the fresh-faced energetic types and why the NFL coaches look like they've been doing nothing but pouring over video at a desk for 90 hours a week with coffee and a donut.
I don't have the stats to prove or disprove that particular point, and I try to avoid generalizations, but what is certainly clear to me that the most important thing in college football as a coach is being able to recruit the talent. You have to be able to walk into someone's house, meet mom and dad, garner trust, and shake hands to close the deal and bring a wary high school kid to your program. If you can't recruit, you're dead--because at the end of the day, the best kids are choosing the schools, not the other way around.
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