OT: Larry Fedora reacts to new (and proposed) rule changes...

Submitted by Mr. Yost on

He doesn't like most of the new rule changes in college football which many feel level the recruiting playing field for northern schools. He doesn't like the rule changes which were put in place to allow for more fall camp since 2-a-days are now prohibited. 

“There’s quite a few that I don’t like,” Fedora said from the Westin in Charlotte, N.C., according to Scout. “I don’t like the fact that now guys can take official visits for eight months of the year. I do not like that. I do not like guys taking official visits in April, May and June. I don’t like that this [event] started this week and not a week later. That cut into another week of my vacation. What I’m getting to there is now they’ve backed camp up so you can go on the 27th, so now we’ve moved football into July. Now they’re talking about going to a 14-week schedule, so who’s going to say that’s not going to go another week earlier so you can get your guys prepared?

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Poor guy, lost out on a week of vacation because of ACC Media Day for his job that pays him multiple millions of dollars. He should've called up Hugh Freeze and they could've had a family double date vacation earlier this month. They could've sat around the bonfire and cooked up some burgers, ribs, and their next institutional scandal.

Here's another breakdown of the rule changes...

Among the college football rule changes for 2017:

 

  • There are now two signing periods. In 2017, players will have their first opportunity to officially sign from Dec. 20-22.
  • Extended recruiting season that lengthens the period for official visits to April 1 of the prospect’s junior high school season.
  • Teams are allowed 10 assistant coaches starting Jan. 9, 2018.
  • Two-a-day practices during training camp are banned. If teams practice twice per day, the extra session must be a film study, walkthrough without pads or conditioning.
  • Teams were allowed to request training camp to begin in July if the ban on two-a-day practices disrupted their schedule.

Clarence Beeks

July 17th, 2017 at 10:32 AM ^

It's not a matter of working an extra 80 hours to earn millions of dollars.  He already does earn those millions of dollars.  It's a matter of working an extra 80 hours to earn the same millions of dollars.  Sort of the sucky part of being salaried.  But yeah, your point is well made in that it's always going to be hard to find sympathy when the salary amount is in the millions with an equivalent  hourly rate of about $550/hour...

UMfan21

July 16th, 2017 at 3:07 PM ^

but that's how it is in the broader workforce. yeah, I could clock in/out from 8 to 5 every day. but if I want a successful career often times jobs require more hours. weekends, nights, holidays...I've had to work them all. I didn't HAVE to, but it's part of my desire to be better.

Mr. Fedora is in the same position. he can do the minimum, or he can bust his ass. totally up to him.

Magnus

July 16th, 2017 at 4:02 PM ^

Right...but he's already busting his ass. That's the thing. This isn't a group of people who work 8-4:30 and then go to happy hour. These are groups of people that work 18- and 20-hour days during the season, and who work long hours in the off-season, too. They go to clinics, visit other teams, recruit, etc.

"Doing the minimum" in his case is working (and I'm just guessing) 18-hour days, mentoring 120 athletes, and managing a football staff/virtual corporation that brings in tens or hundreds of millions of dollars each year.

And I'm certain that when he's "on vacation" right now, he's not totally unplugged from his football program. Anyone can work more if they don't want a vacation. Nobody's stopping him from watching film, drawing up plays, etc., just like nobody's stopping you from reading books, watching videos, etc. about your profession. But when additional work becomes sanctioned, then the expectation is that you'll do that extra work, not just say, "Meh, I'm not interested."

Magnus

July 17th, 2017 at 1:03 PM ^

This is partly why Bob Stoops retired. He wants to spend more time with his family, and coaching doesn't allow you to do that. Multiply that times 10 or more (to include your football staff), and you're talking about a big impact. And not all coaching staffs are making huge dollar amounts.

Clarence Beeks

July 17th, 2017 at 12:37 AM ^

You're 100% right, Magnus, but the problem here comes from people trying to grasp the requirements of a job that they have no personal reference point to connect to.  It's super easy to just try to compare it the corporate job that most here may be familiar with where you have to do more than the minimum if you want to get ahead (which, at most, is going to max out periodically around 70-80 hours/week for the most extreme situations), but that's not the job (nor the rules) involved here.

bacon

July 16th, 2017 at 3:18 PM ^

If you don't like it, don't do it. Take a month of vacation, spin it as you need to see your kids or whatever. You might miss out on some kids but whatever. Expecting the job to conform to your vacation schedule is what's wrong with these coaches like Freeze and Fedora. It's an important lesson to learn, no matter how much time you put in, there's always someone out there who is willing to work harder.