Coaching has become an incredibly lucrative business in college football. There are also a number of coaching positions available in the pros and even some decent opportunities at the high school level.

Currently, in order to rise through the ranks of coaching, you generally have to start out as a graduate or an assistant position coach and then gradually work your way up.

What if there was an academy or school that taught people how to coach? And maybe there isn’t and I just don’t know about it. Maybe it’s a two-year degree. Maybe it’s specifically for offensive and defensive coordinators. In other words, less emphasis on coaching drills and techniques. You can leave that up to position coaches and ex players. This is more about the Xs and Os of the game.

You study the most successful offenses and defenses in the game. You study different types of formations and calls and why they work. You study opponents and how to defeat them. It’s basically intense year around training. Your thesis can be the creation of a new offense and new offensive sets and ideas. You can be innovative or steal from others. Graduates can be placed at lower level schools looking for new coaches.

Tell me this wouldn’t work.

As a fan of a school who has struggled with offensive coordinators as long as I can remember and is looking for an offensive coordinator, I would rather have some young, innovative, full-of-energy, student of the game who eats, drinks and sleeps football and has studied the game for years vs a re-tread 50 year old who has been around the game a long time but is also influenced heavily by old philosophies and traditions.