Arizona State's Kenny Dillingham Fires Back At College Coaches Complaining

The college football landscape is changing. There is no doubt about that.

From the growth of Name, Image and Likeness (NIL), expansion of the playoffs, the transfer portal, and so on things in college football are much different than the one we grew up on. With all the changes coming to the forefront of coaching staffs - mostly the head coach who everyone is looking to for answers - the pressure to perform not only on the field but off of it when in the midst of recruiting, working the transfer portal and the such is now a heavy burden.

This new burden placed on head coaches, as well as assistants, has swayed some of them from pursuing further promotion in the NCAA ranks for NFL gigs or, in the case of Chip Kelly, leaving a head coaching position at UCLA that was not getting him anywhere to join the Ohio State Buckeyes as their new offensive coordinator.

Another interesting example is how Boston College’s head man Jeff Hafley left the Eagles to become the Green Bay Packers' next defensive coordinator citing the collegiate landscape as a main culprit in the move.

With all of this happening in an ever-changing sports’ world, some coaches clearly aren’t cut out to take on the added pressures, but some believe that they including Arizona State’s head coach Kenny Dillingham.

In an interview via Sarah Kezele of AZ Sports, Dillingham provided his insights on staying in college football.

“I literally spent nine years of my life doing anything to become a coffee boy,” Dillingham said. “So, don’t give me the ‘Oh, it’s hard to be a coach right now.’ Yeah, it’s hard. Then quit.”

Strong words, but also hard-hitting.

Some people have had to struggle to get to the point that they are at in life and Dillingham did it the hard way - almost forcing himself into the coaching sphere to one day have the chance to become a head coach in college. He eventually wound up latching onto the Mike Norvell tree becoming Florida State’s offensive coordinator and then the offensive coordinator at Oregon before taking the head coaching job with the Sun Devils.

These are the type of coaches college football needs in the game. If any of them think differently then they just aren’t cut out for it.