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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...ollege-football-support-staff-0709-story.html
Saban's unparalleled success and the increasing demands of football coaches have inspired others to follow the Alabama model when building a support staff, adding as many roster spots as possible.....
Bielema’s support staff last season totaled 18 members to rank 13th in the 14-team SEC, according to an Orlando Sentinel survey of 2016 media guides. Alabama and Georgia boast 29 support staff members, South Carolina 25, Florida 23 and LSU 23.
Donk's note: Does anyone believe that Bammer only has 29? Most reports say twice that but they get very creative with the job titles. Someone commented that the GAs have GAs. I've seen numbers as high as 70 for their real staff.
Saban’s support staff is so vast and fluid it might help if everyone wore name tags.
“I was there three years, and I still didn't learn everybody's name in that building,” Kiffin said in May...
The Football Oversight Committee hopes to find out who’s who, who is doing what and how many people are enough as the NCAA considers capping the number of support staff members allowed. Staff rule changes are possible as early as next year. ...
Based on his four years under Saban at Alabama, UF coach Jim McElwain arrived from Colorado State with big ideas. McElwain, the son of a high school English teacher, sees value in Saban’s approach to hiring support staff.
“Hedging back to your days of education, class size, that’s one of the biggest issues all these school districts face,” McElwain said. “The bigger the class size, sometimes the less teaching that goes on. So I think it’s really good.”
The Football Oversight Committee, in theory, hopes to address the support staff needs of all 130 Football Bowl Subdivision members. In reality, it is a big ask to legislate for schools with such diverse goals and resources.
“There is a discussion about that, but I still think we’re a long ways away from seeing something concrete,” first-year Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne said. “We all have to manage the resources that we have to work with. It’s not always going to be a completely level field with those things; each school is unique in its own way.”
Meanwhile, Byrne protege Scott Stricklin, in his first year at UF, said one issue is universal for all schools.
“The majority of our students on campuses who are student-athletes don’t get full scholarships. Why is that never been an issue?” Stricklin asked. “We have baseball players and softball players and soccer players and a lot of track athletes who come on our campuses and they’re having to take out student loans to be athletes on our campus, even if they’re on scholarship because they’re not on a full scholarship, [unlike the majority of football and men’s basketball players].
“I don’t think that’s right.”
Stricklin’s former school, Mississippi State, has an SEC-low 16 support staff members. But he said he is “comfortable” with what the Gators are doing in football - the cash cow of every SEC athletic department.
Saban and his former assistants, including McElwain, hopes the NCAA does not try to hinder their approach to the game. In fact, the 55-year-old McElwain wonders why support staffs sizes are an issue at all.
“My personal opinion is people are making a really big deal over something that isn’t,” McElwain said. “Honestly, look, you’re going to give opportunities to people. I don’t care what profession you’re in. I don’t know if there’s any other business in America that limits the amount of employees they can have.
“There’s not a business in the world that says, ‘Hey, you can’t have X amount of people.’”
Saban's unparalleled success and the increasing demands of football coaches have inspired others to follow the Alabama model when building a support staff, adding as many roster spots as possible.....
Bielema’s support staff last season totaled 18 members to rank 13th in the 14-team SEC, according to an Orlando Sentinel survey of 2016 media guides. Alabama and Georgia boast 29 support staff members, South Carolina 25, Florida 23 and LSU 23.
Donk's note: Does anyone believe that Bammer only has 29? Most reports say twice that but they get very creative with the job titles. Someone commented that the GAs have GAs. I've seen numbers as high as 70 for their real staff.
Saban’s support staff is so vast and fluid it might help if everyone wore name tags.
“I was there three years, and I still didn't learn everybody's name in that building,” Kiffin said in May...
The Football Oversight Committee hopes to find out who’s who, who is doing what and how many people are enough as the NCAA considers capping the number of support staff members allowed. Staff rule changes are possible as early as next year. ...
Based on his four years under Saban at Alabama, UF coach Jim McElwain arrived from Colorado State with big ideas. McElwain, the son of a high school English teacher, sees value in Saban’s approach to hiring support staff.
“Hedging back to your days of education, class size, that’s one of the biggest issues all these school districts face,” McElwain said. “The bigger the class size, sometimes the less teaching that goes on. So I think it’s really good.”
The Football Oversight Committee, in theory, hopes to address the support staff needs of all 130 Football Bowl Subdivision members. In reality, it is a big ask to legislate for schools with such diverse goals and resources.
“There is a discussion about that, but I still think we’re a long ways away from seeing something concrete,” first-year Alabama athletics director Greg Byrne said. “We all have to manage the resources that we have to work with. It’s not always going to be a completely level field with those things; each school is unique in its own way.”
Meanwhile, Byrne protege Scott Stricklin, in his first year at UF, said one issue is universal for all schools.
“The majority of our students on campuses who are student-athletes don’t get full scholarships. Why is that never been an issue?” Stricklin asked. “We have baseball players and softball players and soccer players and a lot of track athletes who come on our campuses and they’re having to take out student loans to be athletes on our campus, even if they’re on scholarship because they’re not on a full scholarship, [unlike the majority of football and men’s basketball players].
“I don’t think that’s right.”
Stricklin’s former school, Mississippi State, has an SEC-low 16 support staff members. But he said he is “comfortable” with what the Gators are doing in football - the cash cow of every SEC athletic department.
Saban and his former assistants, including McElwain, hopes the NCAA does not try to hinder their approach to the game. In fact, the 55-year-old McElwain wonders why support staffs sizes are an issue at all.
“My personal opinion is people are making a really big deal over something that isn’t,” McElwain said. “Honestly, look, you’re going to give opportunities to people. I don’t care what profession you’re in. I don’t know if there’s any other business in America that limits the amount of employees they can have.
“There’s not a business in the world that says, ‘Hey, you can’t have X amount of people.’”