Greg Byrne, director of athletics at Alabama, is worried about the trend of college coaches quitting to work in the NFL.
Greg Byrne voiced his worries on Friday regarding coaches quitting collegiate football to play professionally.
Greg Byrne, the director of athletics at Alabama, voiced worries on Friday on what he saw as a pattern of college coaches quitting to join the NFL.
“Yeah, I really am [apprehensive about the number],” Byrne stated in a Tide 100.9 interview.
Byrne mentioned in particular that Jeff Hafley, the head coach at Boston College, left to take a position as defensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers.
“It’s certainly one of the less-resourced [head-coaching jobs out] there, and I don’t say that disparagingly at all — they’ve got a great program at Boston College,” Byrne stated. However, he departed to pursue a career as an NFL defensive coordinator. You never would have considered that in the past.”
Byrne also brought up the Group of Five head coaches quitting to take positions as assistant coaches at the Power 5 level, two of whom, Maurice Linguist of Buffalo and Kane Wommack of South Alabama, were hired by Alabama this summer. Shawn Elliott, the coach at Georgia State, also departed last week to take a position as the tight ends coach and run-game coordinator at South Carolina.
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