Is Jeff Hafley’s jump to the NFL part of an inflection point for college sports?
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Is Jeff Hafley’s jump to the NFL part of an inflection point for college sports?

New York Times  

Sometimes in life the message, and the messenger, are flawed, but the deeper meaning exposes a reality worthy of paying heed. Event one: Jeff Hafley, the head coach at Boston College the past four years, leaves to become the defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers. Event two: ESPN’s Pete Thamel, who broke Hafley’s move, cites “a source” blaming part of the departure on the state of things at the college level, where “coaching has become fundraising, NIL and recruiting your own team and transfers.” Event three, and this is the one that may mean the most: Herbstreit, the ESPN mainstay who is not exactly a bomb-thrower in the public sphere, reacts with a tweet that starts out woe-is-me, but then veers into actual solutions: No. It’s not the wildest career move to jump to the NFL and be a coordinator, where a year later you could be in the head coaching cycle. Tennessee’s attorney general, teaming up with Virginia’s attorney general, immediately sued the NCAA, seeking to toss all the NIL rules.

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