Question for college football experts. [View all]
There's been this trend in the last few years of colleges needing a new coach hiring a head coach away from another school while that school's team is still playing.
It happened today with Willie Taggart, the first-year Oregon head coach(Oregon will be playing in the Las Vegas Bowl on December 16th), who has apparently signed to coach for Florida State, but it has happened in a lot of other schools recently.
Is it generally the coaches being casual about ditching their current teams? Or is it the schools doing the hiring putting hardball pressure on the coaches to leave before the bowl game, or the last game of a winning season? You'd think the schools doing the hiring would respect the need of the current coach to finish the season he(at this point in NCAA football, it's still universally "he)is leading the team through?
When did it get accepted that it's asking too much to wait to hire 'til the current season is actually done?
And is there some reason they NCAA doesn't have a rule banning this practice?
Why the need to be this ruthless about hiring?
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