Utah, Coaching Isn’t as Enticing as it Used to Be

Shower Thought - October 30, 2025

Mack Brown coached Texas from 1998 to 2013. He won a championship in 2005, he lost to oklahoma a hundred times, he coached Ricky Williams. Had a great run. He got to be about 63 and he retired. He'd was sick of the boosters and the pressure and he'd had enough. He retired he spent time with his wife Sally, they got involved in a bunch of charities in Austin, they went on walks. And then Mack got bored. And he said I miss coaching. So after 5 years of being retired he went to North Carolina. And he's teams weren't great but at lease he wasn't bored anymore. Same thing happened to Bill Snyder. He coached at Kansas State for 20 years, got tired of it retired at 66. Hung out. Got bored. Four years later he was back at KState. In other words, back a few years ago, boredom was worse than being a college football coach. That's not the case anymore.

Paul Finebaum speculated yesterday that Nick Saban might consider returning to LSU. Saban's the greatest coach ever, he's only 73, he still has dark hair, he's gotta be bored of talking about how key the turnover battle's gonna be on college gameday, bored of off seasons of charity functions, doing Lowes commercials, having Miss Terry yell at him. If college football was the same as it was 10 years ago he'd probably take the LSU job because boredom was worse than being a college football coach. Now boredom is much better. Being a college football coach is a slog of NIL, Portal, misery. Bill Belichick would kill to go back to being bored. Kyle Whittingham yearns for boredom. The only coach who's happy is Kalani Sitake.