NCAA to regulate staff sizes?

[rjd970]

Interesting read on the Bama machine in Tuscaloosa:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ing-to-limit-the-size-of-your-football-staff/

Former Alabama offensive consultant Eric Kiesau provided a comprehensive inside look at the operation last year.


"It's a whole other section of the building," Kiesau told me. "There are guys, like students, who played football in high school and love Alabama. They watch recruiting film all day long. Then you have your top guys. They start making cut-ups so the assistant coaches are more efficient with their time."

The enduring image is of a highly-successful, efficiently-run, utterly brilliant football sweatshop. And there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.

I'm kind of torn on the NCAA regulating this. On one hand, I think this creates an unfair competitive advantage for some programs. If you have an army of analysts pouring over recruiting tapes and doing background, then the main assistant coaches are able to focus on coaching. At smaller programs, even in power 5 conferences, there is a competitive disadvantage when a single coach is doing the same job being covered by multiple "analysts" at another. Basically, some schools are able to outspend other schools before they even meet on the field.

On the other hand, it isn't against the rules. If other schools want to win then pony up the money and resources to make this happen. It's simply working within the rules. I also see some legal liability here. What happens when the OSUs, Notre Dame's, and Bama's have to fire people currently employed as analysts? Seems to me the affected individuals would have a legal case against the NCAA.

 

[YorkVol]

Interesting read on the Bama machine in Tuscaloosa:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...ing-to-limit-the-size-of-your-football-staff/



I'm kind of torn on the NCAA regulating this. On one hand, I think this creates an unfair competitive advantage for some programs. If you have an army of analysts pouring over recruiting tapes and doing background, then the main assistant coaches are able to focus on coaching. At smaller programs, even in power 5 conferences, there is a competitive disadvantage when a single coach is doing the same job being covered by multiple "analysts" at another. Basically, some schools are able to outspend other schools before they even meet on the field.

On the other hand, it isn't against the rules. If other schools want to win then pony up the money and resources to make this happen. It's simply working within the rules. I also see some legal liability here. What happens when the OSUs, Notre Dame's, and Bama's have to fire people currently employed as analysts? Seems to me the affected individuals would have a legal case against the NCAA.

So they have 100 guys getting paid to study football so the 100 guys not getting paid can win more?

 

[MyBloodRunnethOrange]

So they have 100 guys getting paid to study football so the 100 guys not getting paid can win more?

Pretty much

 

[LSU-SIU]

So they have 100 guys getting paid to study football so the 100 guys not getting paid can win more?

Yeah, its just a student activity... you know those ain't "employees"... they're students. lol

 

[vol-un-tear]

Guess everyone can do it. They find loopholes like the patriots. Common theme. Champions

 

[rjd970]

So they have 100 guys getting paid to study football so the 100 guys not getting paid can win more?

Part of the problem is nobody really knows how many people some of these programs employ:

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...all-staff-sizes-survey-shows-inconsistencies/

It is largely perceived in coaching circles that Alabama, not Notre Dame, has the largest staff. In the survey, Alabama is credited with a total staff size of 31. According to the survey, that would tie Missouri and Ole Miss for sixth in the SEC and tie for 28th nationally.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/05/ncaa_football_staff_size_surve.html

At Alabama, the NCAA survey found no grad assistants, although clearly the program does have GAs, even if they're not listed on the official RollTide.com staff directory or on the coaching staff directory in the website's Football section.

At present, that overall staff directory has 32 people listed under the Football department, and there are 10 other people in the directory with "football" in their title. That would be a total of 42, not counting graduate assistants.

The directory lists seven football analysts but doesn't include the recently hired Chris Weinke. It also doesn't break down academic support personnel by sport.

How many football staffers did the NCAA survey find at Alabama? It found 31. Even Nick Saban would have to chuckle at that number. Curiously, the survey listed just one person under strength and conditioning, even though the program's official website lists five strength-and-conditioning coaches with football in their title.

It also doesn't count volunteers that aren't getting paid. Can the NCAA regulate volunteers?

 

[Orange_Vol1321]

AL volunteers may not be on the payroll but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say they're getting paid.

 

[volfannbama]

Doesnt matter, they will just call them something else.

 

[TUSKtimes]

Bama is in the NCAA's head.