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CBS Sports - Citing burnout from NIL, transfer portal and non-stop recruiting, college basketball coaches make big changes
This was actually an interesting read. The time commitment has gotten much worse and apparently a lot of young coaches are leaving because it puts too much strain on the home life.
There are some good thoughts from both Drew and Pearl, as well as others, about how bad things have gotten and it sounds like the coaching profession as a whole is pretty united in making the NCAA make changes.
"We're tired at the end of the year. We've worked basically seven days a week and the last day we had off was New Year's Eve," Pearl said. "Now, with the exception of a few days at the Final Four, we work every day in April, every weekend, every day at a very high-stress time when an average of 3.5 players per team per year are leaving. It's heartbreaking. Families are breaking up. I've historically not had a lot of guys transfer, this was the most we've ever had. We had three, and it broke my heart."
The good news is this isn't a story about an issue without a resolution. Change is coming to the recruiting calendar thanks to unprecedented unity among coaches.
"Normally you get 60%, 70% on board with whatever, but this was something everybody was on the same page," Drew said. "COVID taught us all some different things, and one of them was: When we didn't go on the road and were with our players more and families more and all had full rosters, we were still able to do our jobs."
What will these changes be? A complete overhaul to the spring recruiting period, more time off around every major holiday, a big shift in July, and elongated dark periods that are expected to better serve coaches, college players and recruits. It amounts to one of the biggest shifts in the calendar in ages.
The good news is this isn't a story about an issue without a resolution. Change is coming to the recruiting calendar thanks to unprecedented unity among coaches.
"Normally you get 60%, 70% on board with whatever, but this was something everybody was on the same page," Drew said. "COVID taught us all some different things, and one of them was: When we didn't go on the road and were with our players more and families more and all had full rosters, we were still able to do our jobs."
What will these changes be? A complete overhaul to the spring recruiting period, more time off around every major holiday, a big shift in July, and elongated dark periods that are expected to better serve coaches, college players and recruits. It amounts to one of the biggest shifts in the calendar in ages.
There are some good thoughts from both Drew and Pearl, as well as others, about how bad things have gotten and it sounds like the coaching profession as a whole is pretty united in making the NCAA make changes.
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