It’s no secret that the college football landscape has changed greatly over the past few years with the popularization of the transfer portal and the NCAA changing its rules on name, image, and likeness. But it sounds like those changes have actually driven one Power Five head coach out of college football and into the NFL.
On Wednesday evening, college football insider Pete Thamel broke the news that Boston College Eagles head coach Jeff Hafley is expected to become the next defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers.
The reason for Hafley’s departure from college football is at least in part due to the “overall state of college football,” according to Thamel.
“He wants to go coach football again in a league that is all about football,” a source told ESPN. “College coaching has become fundraising, NIL and recruiting your own team and transfers. There’s no time to coach football anymore."
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) January 31, 2024
“He wants to go coach football again in a league that is all about football,” a source told ESPN, according to Thamel. “College coaching has become fundraising, NIL and recruiting your own team and transfers. There’s no time to coach football anymore.”
By just serving as a defensive coordinator in the NFL, Hafley will no longer have to deal with any of those things and will get to worry about strictly coaching his team from a schematic perspective.
We’ll have to see how he does coaching at the next level.
