Will be fun to see where this goes, especially for the Hawks.
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-rule-easing-limit-countable-football-coaches
https://www.espn.com/college-footba...-rule-easing-limit-countable-football-coaches
New rules for number of coaches
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I wonder if Maryland will take advantage and let Big Bri do some hands-on coaching of their QB's and other offensive players. Tough letting that level of offensive genius waste away in a film room.
Good stuff. The football analysts and Quality Control folks can now coach in practice, but still can't recruit.
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The NCAA Division I Council on Tuesday approved a rule change that will allow all football staff members to provide coaching instruction during practice and games, a change that removes some restrictions on the NCAA's previous maximum of 11 "countable" coaches.
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The new rule maintains that at the FBS level, only 10 assistants and the head coach are allowed to recruit off-campus. The national service academies are allowed four additional off-campus recruiters. Only staff members "who regularly engage in on-campus coaching activities with student-athletes can be counted as off-campus recruiters."
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The rule is meant to address the large staffs some of the bigger programs hire with ambiguous titles such as "quality control" coaches, analysts, directors of player personnel and player development.
Instead of the gray area that existed before, which for many schools was a compliance nightmare, those staff members will now be allowed to provide hands-on instruction. The rule isn't intended to be a green light for head coaches to hire 12 new assistants. Instead, the idea is to modernize the rule and allow for scenarios such as when fired head coaches are recycled onto other staffs in the guise of a "quality control" coach who previously might have ignored the rule to provide instruction.
"Instead of micromanaging and some people trying to abuse it," one source said, "let's just allow it. There's a point of diminishing returns. You can't have 100 coaches out there."
While some have expressed concerns about coaches building supersized staffs, the number of coaches on headsets isn't expected to change on game day. There was a sense within the Football Oversight Committee that it would be unrealistic to allow the staff members to coach during the week, but then not allow them to give any level of instruction or encouragement on game days.
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The NCAA Division I Council on Tuesday approved a rule change that will allow all football staff members to provide coaching instruction during practice and games, a change that removes some restrictions on the NCAA's previous maximum of 11 "countable" coaches.
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The new rule maintains that at the FBS level, only 10 assistants and the head coach are allowed to recruit off-campus. The national service academies are allowed four additional off-campus recruiters. Only staff members "who regularly engage in on-campus coaching activities with student-athletes can be counted as off-campus recruiters."
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The rule is meant to address the large staffs some of the bigger programs hire with ambiguous titles such as "quality control" coaches, analysts, directors of player personnel and player development.
Instead of the gray area that existed before, which for many schools was a compliance nightmare, those staff members will now be allowed to provide hands-on instruction. The rule isn't intended to be a green light for head coaches to hire 12 new assistants. Instead, the idea is to modernize the rule and allow for scenarios such as when fired head coaches are recycled onto other staffs in the guise of a "quality control" coach who previously might have ignored the rule to provide instruction.
"Instead of micromanaging and some people trying to abuse it," one source said, "let's just allow it. There's a point of diminishing returns. You can't have 100 coaches out there."
While some have expressed concerns about coaches building supersized staffs, the number of coaches on headsets isn't expected to change on game day. There was a sense within the Football Oversight Committee that it would be unrealistic to allow the staff members to coach during the week, but then not allow them to give any level of instruction or encouragement on game days.
