Under current NCAA rules, college football teams are limited in which coaches can instruct players on the field during practice. Only the head coach, 10 assistant coaches, and four graduate assistants are allowed to coach players during practice. A popular proposal was expected to change that rule this season, but it does not look like it will pass after all.
During an interview with On3 this week, American Football Coaches Association executive director Todd Berry revealed that the proposal to allow analysts and other staffers to coach during practice is not expected to pass before the 2023 season.
And as Berry points out, this could present a major problem for some teams, who’ve made some hires and coaching moves based on the assumption that this rule was going to change.
“I’ve told the group that I’m disappointed because we led people to believe that something was going to happen,” Berry told On3. “And not just us, but a lot of entities because there were a lot of conversations kind of going on privately and publicly about that this was likely to happen. And while I know that there’s always risk that things aren’t going to turn out until they actually happen and you don’t do things until they actually happen, we have a lot of coaches that have made moves based off an assumption and now you’re talking about their whole career has changed.”
We’ll have to see how coaches handle this update this upcoming college football season.
[On3]
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