🏈 Beware, football recruits: Your coach likely won't stay four years

[TerryP]

Be careful, college football recruits. As you decide where to sign next week, just understand the head coach or assistant you're really close to on National Signing Day is unlikely to stick around for your entire college career.

Of the 650 head coaches and assistants who were coaching at current Power Five schools in 2011, 66 percent of them left the staff by 2015, according to a CBS Sports analysis of team rosters. Northwestern is the only Power Five team to keep its entire coaching staff intact from 2011-15, a period that represents the typical length of a college player's career.

Forty-two percent of Power Five head coaches changed jobs within those four years. For the head coaches who stayed in place between 2011-15, 48 percent of their assistants left during that period.

A recruit is basically flipping a coin on signing day that the assistant who recruited him will be around for his entire college career. Assistants tend to have the tightest bonds with recruits. Players get wooed for months and years and forge relationships that strongly help determine where they sign.

Not surprisingly, the SEC -- with its enormous salaries and expectations -- had the largest turnover among all head coaches and assistants (72 percent) between 2011 and 2015. ACC schools changed 69 percent of their coaches, followed by the Big 12 (67 percent), Big Ten (61 percent) and Pac-12 (60 percent).
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[rammerjammer]

I understand we are getting to a slow time and writers are digging for things to write about.

Maybe this is a wrong viewpoint, but here goes. Kids are 18ish and you are about to be introduced to the real world. Real life doesn't give out participation trophies. Real life there are winners and losers. I have never been recruited and have no idea as to what is exactly said between recruits and coaches. I'm sure in certain situations that longevity might be a question for some recruits. Sort of like Steve Spurrier at 71 years old, how much longer is he going to coach. I know that coaches will promise the moon to these kids too.

Having said all that, just like the kid is trying to make the best decision possible for himself and the future. Can you blame a coach (assistant or head) for wanting to do the same. I think it is a situation where honesty really totes a lot of weight. If a kid were to ask, you put the question back on him. Let's say that UAB is recruiting a kid pretty hard with Troy and South Alabama........then Georgia comes along and says, hey we need you and want you to come play for us. While it may be an easier path at one of the first 3 schools mentioned, he will not get near the exposure there as he would at an SEC school. Same can be said for coaching. Everyday in life we are charged with making "business" decisions. Ultimately you have to do what is best for you. That decision is not always the easiest. Sometimes there are hurt feelings. I think if you explain that to the kids, they will understand and ultimately come to respect you more for it.