Boston Faculty head coach Jeff Hafley’s resolution to simply accept the Inexperienced Bay Packers‘ defensive coordinator place is the most recent signal that faculty soccer is at a disaster level.
ESPN’s Pete Thamel broke the information and quoted a supply on why Hafley left a head-coaching job to develop into a coordinator. The response would not bode effectively for the way forward for the game he is abandoning.
“He needs to go coach soccer once more in a league that’s all about soccer… Faculty teaching has develop into fundraising, NIL and recruiting your personal workforce and transfers,” stated Thamel’s supply.
Hafley is not the one coach to go away a head-coaching gig for a coordinator function. Alabama poached two mid-major coaches, South Alabama’s Kane Wommack and Buffalo’s Maurice Linguist, earlier this offseason.
Final yr, Colorado head coach Deion Sanders was capable of nab Kent State coach Sean Lewis for his offensive coordinator opening.
Because the job of school head coaches evolves within the switch portal and NIL period, we’ll seemingly proceed to see coaches at smaller applications flock to the NFL or faculties with extra assets to tackle coordinator roles.
It may create a vicious cycle on the Group of 5 applications, the place turnover turns into rampant because the grind of doing all the things in addition to teaching takes its toll.
Whereas the NCAA may shrug at coaches at applications like Boston Faculty, Buffalo and South Alabama fleeing for greener pastures, will probably be way more regarding for the establishment if coaches at extra distinguished faculties get fed up and depart for the professionals.
It will not occur in a single day, but when one of the best coaches gravitate towards the NFL over time, what’s going to that depart for school soccer?
