Coaching Jobs: College vs. NFL

Yesterday was actually a very tame "Black Monday" around the NFL coaching carousel. Only Dennis Green (Cardinals) and Jim Mora Jr. (Falcons) were told "Thank you for your time, god speed". Mora wrote his own slip with his comments about the University of Washington job being his "dream job" and the Cardinals are likely to pursue USC Head Coach Pete Carroll and likely to be told "thanks but I'm about to win four National Championships in a row". Nick Saban is likely to resign as coach of the Miami Dolphins and take the job at Alabama after denying contact because:

1) He has no soul.

2) It's a $5 million a year job

3) As booster money sweetens the pot, College Football head coaching jobs are becoming more attractive than NFL jobs for a few reasons

a) If a coach recruits well enough he can take two months out of the year (January and February) off.

b) Pretty much every college coach is what every NFL coach wants to be (a Head Coach/General Manager) except without a salary cap.

c) Smaller market media. With only a few exceptions most college towns are smaller than NFL towns and there is less media competition and less tendency for media pressure threatening job security. The Norman Times or whatever dosen't have a back page to write "Stoops to New Low" after a defeat to Boise State (haha!).

NFL Owners are going to have step up the payscale for their coaches if they are going to compete with the prestigious college programs for top notch coaching talent.