“How do people over 30 keep up with all this s---?” The demands of a college coach keep mounting, thanks in big part due to year-round recruiting. As salaries soar, some are realizing they can walk away
Recruiting came into play in Luke’s decision, too. For his youngest son Cooper’s 10th birthday this past July, usually the slowest month for coaches, the family traveled to Disney World. Luke found himself on the phone with recruits, forcing him to leave his son behind on a Harry Potter ride. It was a seminal moment in his decision to leave coaching, but he’s got a career full of these.
That timeline is now spring or summer before their senior season—something that resulted in officials creating the December early signing date and adding springtime official visits. These changes have only expanded and accelerated the recruiting calendar. Smart expects more coaches to go the way of Luke, particularly in the SEC, where he says TV contracts have sent salaries soaring, affording coaches the opportunity to step away. The 15-month pandemic recruiting dead period that ended last spring showed coaches what life without recruiting is like.
Another possibility is additional dead periods, when coaches are prohibited from in-person contact with recruits off or on campus . But there’s a problem there, says Smart. “Where do you put them?” he asks. “There’s very little time to have a dead period.” Rick Neuheisel, the former Washington, UCLA and Colorado coach, describes recruiting these days as “incessant.” “You can never leave it,” he says. “Steve Spurrier stopped doing it because it was taking up your summers. Now it’s taking up every moment.”
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