Where’s the joy gone? With college football in disarray, coaches are heading for the exit

For decades, all power in college football resided with management — coaches, TV networks, the NCAA, the big schools — and the players were at the mercy of the NCAA and its cheap, petty rules and notions of amateurism.

Now all the power lies with the players, and once again it has swung too far to one side. The game is in disarray. Players transfer willy-nilly, jumping into the transfer portal by the thousands each year and chasing NIL money, selling themselves to the highest bidder.

When has anyone given up a head coaching job at an FBS school to take an assistant coaching position in the NFL?

Two other head coaches also voluntarily took lesser positions. South Alabama’s Kane Wommack and Buffalo’s Maurice Linquist resigned to become co-defensive coordinators at Alabama.