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How A Big Change To College Football Coaching Rules Will Impact Ohio State · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, June twenty seventh time your host
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  Tom or the Akron game in sixty five days, the game against Michigan in
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  one hundred and fifty six days. Change is coming to college football. That
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  is really almost dog bites man, at this point, change is constantly coming
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  to college football. But this is a pretty significant change, and it is
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  a change that we have been hearing was on the way for multiple years and
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  that it didn't happen. It didn't happen. Well, this week it is
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  finally happening. A change to the rules about which college football coaches can do
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  what and when. This is one of these things that might be a little
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  bit of a bigger deal than it seems on the surface. We're going to
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  bring in our buddy Tony Gurdaman if fuck I haddle that Colm to talk about
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  it. Tony. This is something, as I said, we heard multiple
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  years ago. This was maybe on the cusp of happening, and then it
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  just never happened. Now it has finally happened. So can you explain the
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  change in the rules involving coaching staffs. Yeah, the new change is that
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  basically anybody on a football staff can now provide, as the NCAA says,
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  technical and tactical instruction, which is on field coaching when and whether it's on
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  the practice field during the game. Before you only had a certain number of
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  coaches, your your ten assistants, your head coach. You're for graduate assistants
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  that could really be involved in actual coaching. And the idea that you know,
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  the the QC guys could only go over film or the analyst can only
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  look over the film, and you can't actually coach, but you can help
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  players look at film, and like you had to stop talking to a player
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  at a certain point. You can't like field of dreams, you can't cross
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  over the white line. If you do, there's no going back. And
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  so now all of that has just been wiped away. And it's like,
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  if you're if you're under the if you're in the building, go ahead and
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  coach somebody. Basically, well, and this is one of these rules that
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  it was a rule, but anytime you talk to anyone around college football about
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  it, it was always one of those rules that they everyone was sure that
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  everyone else was breaking this rule in some way or bending this rule because it
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  was, you know, one of the functionally very difficult to enforce. And
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  this just feels like one of these things where it was a rule, how
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  much were you enforcing it, how much was everyone following it? And you
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  know, this is potentially limiting a lot of people's career advance and that kind
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  of stuff. And you know, how what's the real benefit here, because
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  you know, Ryan da talked about this as a potential change about a week
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  ago when we got a chance to talk to him, and he talked about
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  this as a great opportunity for young coaches to kind of get the foot in
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  the door, more opportunities to coach, more opportunities to get on staffs in
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  general. I mean this, this seems like this is probably by and large
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  going to be a great thing for college football coaches. Yeah, And as
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  you're saying that, I'm just thinking, it's kind of like putting together a
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  roster using high school recruiting and the transfer portal. Because we have seen how
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  some of these analysts are the form head coaches who are sixty five years old
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  and have all the knowledge in the world, and others are guys that have
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  been in the business for you know, three years or whatever and coaching and
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  sometimes you might need an older voice, so you go get a former coach.
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  Sometimes you want some youth in there. You see it up and comer
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  and you can really fix your your coaching roster the way you want. And
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  now this gives everybody an opportunity to coach, and not just you're the guy
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  that goes and gets the coffee, you're the guy that goes and cuts the
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  film. You can actually provide coaching and grow from it. And I'm fascinated
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  to see how this plays out during a game, whether you've got four defensive
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  line coaches down there on the sidelines providing help for people, or is you
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  know, how are they gonna use all of these different bodies that they can
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  now do if they want? But also how many cooks are too many in
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  the kitchen? You get a weigh those sorts of things. But this is
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  something that coaches have been asking for, head coaches, assistant coaches, all
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  coaches. Why would you want to have more access and more ability to grow,
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  to help and in a more what you would consider meaningful way. And
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  I have not seen this is we're going to get real nitty gritty here.
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  I have not seen any clarity on does this limit the number of coaches who
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  can be on headsets during game because, as you said, you could have
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  theoretically four defensive line coaches down there and each one is coaching one individual guy
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  if you wanted to. There are rules right now in terms of how many
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  people can have headsets on, who can have headsets on, and who can
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  talk on the headsets versus who can just listen on the headsets. I have
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  not seen any clarity on that. You know, those types of changes for
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  game day? Do you happen to know? Have you seen that anywhere?
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  I don't. I don't know that that's been spelled out necessarily. I have
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  not, And that's why I'm just assuming it has not changed, you know
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  the fact that they're not addressing it. And that's that's why I Housell said
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  coaches on the sidelines, because I don't if you're going to change. And
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  plus, you can't have sixteen coaches up in the booth anyway. For one
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  that doesn't fit for two, that is way too many voices. So there's
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  also a fine line up in the booth as well, trying to provide information
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  for Chip Kelly or you know, Jim Knowles, like you only want a
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  couple of voices in your ear. Try doing it with any job you have,
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  or you know, driving, Try Tom when you're driving and you know
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  how we have to turn down the radio if for getting a little lost or
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  we need something. I imagine, now you've got like four coaches in your
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  ears while you're trying to find your turn. I have two kids in the
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  backseat and a wife in the passenger seat. I don't need to imagine,
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  Tony, I know all about that. Yes, that is I understand the
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  NCAA rules on that for sure. You know. Ryan Day talked about this
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  in the context of opportunities for young coaches and how this would be a potentially
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  a great thing for them in that realm. This this is also potentially going
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  to be something that will really benefit Ryan Day and Ohio State and other big
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  programs who can afford to bring in former head coaches, other you know,
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  veteran voices and the more guys. You know. Nick Saban famously had the
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  what was colloquially known as the Nick Saban School for Wayward Boys, which was
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  fired head coaches who came in and were just sort of breaking down film and
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  just sort of being other voices in that building. This you know, if
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  you're a program like Ohio State or Alabama or any of the other Georgia,
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  any of the big programs in the nation, you can probably afford to bring
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  in close to an unlimited number of these people. Whatever you feel the maximum
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  useful number is, you can probably bring in close to that number or that
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  number. This seems like it might be something that's going to benefit the big
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  schools more than it does the smaller schools. Yeah, I would agree with
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  that because you could now there are more big schools that can go go at
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  a smaller school's offensive coordinator and make them assistant too of the quarterbacks coach.
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  However, you still have to operate under the direction of one head coach,
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  and so everybody has to fall in line with what he wants, or everybody
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  on defense has to fall in line with what the defensive coordinator wants. And
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  sometimes if you get too many guys and there are too many head coaches who
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  I've done it my way forever, you know, like Greg Shianna when he
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  was a head coach, or when he finally came back to being an assistant
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  coach under erbt Meyer, he said, I'm a pretty good assistant coach because
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  now I know what I wanted from my assistants, and that's great. But
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  there are other head coaches who are you know, I'm still the head coach.
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  I should still be the head coach, and you've got to just weed
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  those guys out and you've got to, like with anything, you've got to
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  vet who you're going to hire. But they all have to be in line
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  with the head coach. And I think that's a lot easier for the younger
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  coaches because that's all they've ever known, the older coaches, which is why
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  it's so amazing that Nick Saban was able to do what he did. But
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  you also not everybody is Nick Saban. Yeah, a veteran coach is going
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  to be like, Okay, I respect you, I understand you. I'm
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  going to listen to exactly what you want. You're the greatest of all time.
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  Somebody else might come in and whether it's you know, Luke Fickle or
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  Ryan Day or Surean Moore, Yeah, I know what I'm doing, just
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  coming you know, let me be, let me do my job. Like
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  everybody has to have the same the same vision as the head coach, and
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  so you just got to be careful there too. Yeah. Nick Saban was
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  famously when he got to Alabama gave the what was known as the tip of
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  the spear speech where he said, you know, it was basically like,
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  look at me, I'm the captain now, and he got Alabama boosters to
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  fall in line. So if you can get Alabama boosters to fall in line,
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  what are a few former head coaches? How that can't be very difficult
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  at all after getting Alabama boosters. And Tony, just as you were saying
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  talking about you know, hey, the the you know, veteran coach on
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  the staff and you know, maybe not the biggest name or most established head
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  coach, or maybe get maybe a guy on shaky footing, and how that
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  might create some issues. I just the name Bobby Petrino popped into my head,
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  Tony, do you know who Bobby Petrino's staff? Whose staff Bobby Petrino
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  is on this year? I believe Sam Pittman in Arkansas, Sam Pittman at
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  Arkansas. Ladies and gentlemen, just file that information away for later. We
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  may revisit that around. Consider just the mystery mousek a tool, a surprise
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  tool that we that will help us later. We may revisit the Sam Pittman
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  Bobby Patrino conversation in oh October. Let's say October eighth. We'll say,
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  we'll see see where things stand on October eighth on that one. So not
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  necessarily always a great thing to add more people to your staff, but in
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  a lot of cases, and potentially for schools like Ohio State, potentially a
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  very beneficial change that is coming to college football this year. Lots of other
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  college changes coming to college football this year. The whole team playoff, Big
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  Ten expansion, all that exciting fun stuff. We're been covering all of it
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  for you this year at bucke huddle dot com. That's where Tony, Kevin
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  and I cover the team, Mark covers recruiting. We had our whole team
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  of ex's and OS gurus making you a smart a football fan all at bucke
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  huddle dot com. We hope to see you there. That'll do it for
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  today. Thank you guys all for joining us every great day. We'll talk
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  to you tomorrow.