College football’s assistant coaches will continue to play musical chairs from now until a few days after National Signing Day, and the action was especially heavy last week. Watching all those moves—including a defensive coordinator trade that we’ll discuss in the First and 10 section—got me wondering. If I were an athletic director with a blank check, who would I hire to create the perfect staff?
The ground rules are that head coaches can’t be hired to be coordinators or position coaches and coaches who hold a coordinator title can’t be hired as position coaches unless they’re in non-playcalling role.