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This movement of former NFL players becoming collegiate coaches feels weird to me. It's undoubtedly a product of Prime's success, but stepping into a Head Coaching role at even a mid tier high school with zero prior coaching experience would be difficult, let alone a college program even if it's FCS/HBCU where the funds are limited.

I almost think stepping into a P4 job would be easier for a high profile former player as the money is there to build all the infrastructure and support staff needed to handle all the logistics.

I'm very skeptical that Mike Vick and DeSean Jackson becoming college Head Coaches with zero prior experience is going to last longer than a couple of years.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
This movement of former NFL players becoming collegiate coaches feels weird to me. It's undoubtedly a product of Prime's success, but stepping into a Head Coaching role at even a mid tier high school with zero prior coaching experience would be difficult, let alone a college program even if it's FCS/HBCU where the funds are limited.

I almost think stepping into a P4 job would be easier for a high profile former player as the money is there to build all the infrastructure and support staff needed to handle all the logistics.

I'm very skeptical that Mike Vick and DeSean Jackson becoming college Head Coaches with zero prior experience is going to last longer than a couple of years.
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What if it's easy?
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
This movement of former NFL players becoming collegiate coaches feels weird to me. It's undoubtedly a product of Prime's success, but stepping into a Head Coaching role at even a mid tier high school with zero prior coaching experience would be difficult, let alone a college program even if it's FCS/HBCU where the funds are limited.

I almost think stepping into a P4 job would be easier for a high profile former player as the money is there to build all the infrastructure and support staff needed to handle all the logistics.

I'm very skeptical that Mike Vick and DeSean Jackson becoming college Head Coaches with zero prior experience is going to last longer than a couple of years.
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Both are out and out PR stunts hoping to catch just a bit of the HCP-like magic. Both will be epic fails.
 
Da Lama said:
Both are out and out PR stunts hoping to catch just a bit of the HCP-like magic. Both will be epic fails.
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Right, and Prime wasn't just a figurehead and recruiting PR stunt. He invested his own money into the program, he recruited, he assembled a staff based on his own connections, he had years or HC and coordinator experience (albeit at the HS level), he had years of high level media and business experience, filled with both success and failure, and he was very much tapped into the talent pool across much of the footprint from his years of high school and little league coaching.

Vick and DJ going from the couch to Head Coach at HBCU is not remotely the same, and that doesn't even address the fact that neither were even close to the same level of player as CP was.
 
The Alabaster Yak said:
Right, and Prime wasn't just a figurehead and recruiting PR stunt. He invested his own money into the program, he recruited, he assembled a staff based on his own connections, he had years or HC and coordinator experience (albeit at the HS level), he had years of high level media and business experience, filled with both success and failure, and he was very much tapped into the talent pool across much of the footprint from his years of high school and little league coaching.

Vick and DJ going from the couch to Head Coach at HBCU is not remotely the same, and that doesn't even address the fact that neither were even close to the same level of player as CP was.
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Vick and DJ will be much closer to the Trent Dilfer side of the spectrum than the Coach Prime side of the spectrum.
 
H.E. Pennypacker said:
If vick can put together a decent staff I think he will be successful. I don't see recruiting being a problem for him.
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Perhaps.

But the point I was trying to make was to ask why is everyone grasping for examples of how this can fail, when a spectacular failure happened in our own backyard only a couple years ago?

End of day though, it's pretty clear to me that one way to do it right is the way prime did it: start at the lower levels and work your way up. The other way is to, instead of lower levels, start as a position coach and work your way up.
 
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