Being a head football coach at a big brand FBS school has always been a very stressful job. There are egos to manage, donors to keep happy, nosy media members questioning every move made, ticket packages to sell, speaking engagements to make and I didn’t even get to anything actually on field football related yet. Yet as time-consuming and as challenging as it’s always been, it’s getting harder by the day.
The modern era of college football and all the changes that come with it require even more coaches and their staffs than ever before. What fans see on Saturdays is the reflection of all of the behind-the-scenes work taking place in the wild world of modern roster construction in college football. Let’s take a look at the many considerations that now must be made all at once in order to field a competitive squad.