Rams coach Mike Martz will work six-day weeks until his annual month off beginning early in June. The minute the season ends, coaches start preparing to scout the college All-Star games in January. While all this is going on, the coach supervises the off-season workout programs of incumbent players and works on staff changes and game plans. As for pressure from above, NFL owners are far more impatient than college athletic directors. We made the playoffs two years, and I got fired.
Evidence shows it often does, which makes college coaching awfully enticing.
Instead, Cooper was a bust in Columbus. Shoot, the NFL's Eagles have gone 0-5 against their NFC East archrivals, the Giants, in the past two seasons alone, and still coach Andy Reid is a hero in Philadelphia. Buckeyes wide receiver Reggie Germany, for instance, had a 0.0 GPA in the fall quarter, rendering him ineligible for the Outback. You would think that this was Germany's fault. In college athletics the coach is responsible for his players' performance in the classroom and for their behavior off the field.