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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4385578" data-attributes="member: 26737">Coaching is a different animal because coaching is an actual profession, and the way you advance in most professions is to move to new opportunities. Coaches need to be mobile because there’s very little opportunity to move up within an organization without it—if you’re a young coach, you need the coaches above you to move up so you can move up, but if the program is successful, the head coach isn’t going anywhere, so the coordinators can’t move up, which means the position coaches can’t become coordinators, etc. The only means of advancing in coaching is for someone in the chain to move to a new program (e.g, for an OC to become a head coach elsewhere), thereby freeing up positions for more junior coaches to move up in the organization. You can argue about NIL making college athletes de facto pros, but it’s still not a profession in the same way coaching is—f’rinstance, a coach can have a career measured in decades, but players are generally four years and done.</blockquote>