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Topic: What the Heck is a Quality Control Coach?
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eleem
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posted 02-24-2016 05:09 PM
The University of Kentucky has officially entered the college football arms race. Proof lies within Commonwealth Stadium and surrounding properties. However, I’d argue that adding quality control analysts to the Kentucky Football support staff is more of an indication of entrance into the SEC Cold War than waterfalls in the new training center.
The NFL has employed quality control assistants for several years. A number of college football programs have followed suit. The majority of programs with QC’s are deep pocketed contenders. In the national championship game, the number of Alabama and Clemson QC’s neared double digits. On Sunday, the Courier Journal’s Jon Hale reported that Brian Landis and Louie Matzakis will join Tommy Mangino as quality control analysists. What will their jobs entail?
What is a Quality Control Analysist?
Current NCAA regulations don’t recognize the term Quality Control Analysist in their rule book. However, off-the-field support staff members are and are not allowed to identified as coaches. Confused yet? After research, I discovered that non-coaching support staff members have certain duties that the NCAA deems permissible as well as impermissible. Matter of fact, there are twenty-one “cans” compared to fourteen “cant’s”. Let’s take a closer look. For this purpose of this post, 10 of each have been selected.
Permissible-Participate in organized activities involving only the coaching staff or administrative duties.
-Be present at on-campus recruiting activities.
-Receive phone calls from prospects.
-Arrange travel.
-Splice game film.
-Analyze/evaluate videotape of team or opponent.
-Engage in permissible activities in coaches only meetings.
-Attend coaches-student athlete meetings.
-Set up offense/defense strategy.
-Coordinate film exchange
-Sit in dugout/on bench during competitions and be in “huddle” provided no coaching occurs.
Impermissible-Participate in activities that can be considered coaching in nature.
-Perform off-campus recruiting functions.
-Referee team practices.
-Participate in non-organized voluntary activities.
-Review game or practice film with student-athletes.
-Provide instructions to student-athletes at any time.
-Engage in coaching activities in coaches/student-athlete meetings.
–Be identified as coaches.
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eleem
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posted 02-24-2016 05:15 PM
I would think they would have to help, if not why
does Bama, Clemson and the NFL have them.
At least Stoops is not sitting on his haunches
doing nothing. But must remember this costs much
money. No one can say UK hasn't put big bucks in
it's football program.
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boomdaddy
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posted 02-24-2016 08:39 PM
Yeah, Kentucky is way behind in the arms race when it comes D1 football. UK ignored football when they had the best coach in the 50s and settled in to a place where they thought of football as a red headed step child.
Even when UT or Bama goes through a rough patch, there down years don't take as much rebuilding as Kentucky's does.
Hopefully, Kentucky starts a winning tradition this season.
Let's play devil's advocate for a minute and suppose that UK wins 7 to 8 games this season. What happens next? Does their recruiting jump exponentially? What we can expect is that every major program that fires its coach will come after Stoops and his staff. The administration will be fighting off the suitors and the other programs will be telling recruits that our coach will pull up stakes and leave.
Regardless if Stoops were to stay or leave, the program turning the corner and going to a bowl game is more important than him staying.
If they win big and he leaves UK will be in great shape to get a proven head coach that is winner form a lesser league. If Stoops stays, then he will keep building solid classes and finally have the depth that he needs to survive each season in the SEC and say around 7 wins a season and more when the stars align. I could live with either scenario.
The worst case scenario is that they fail to go to a bowl and the program is stuck with Stoops and the recruiting starts to slip.
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eleem
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posted 02-24-2016 09:51 PM
I hope you are right on the money boom. After
redshirting and our recruiting pretty well things
may change.
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boomdaddy
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posted 02-25-2016 08:19 AM
Bama has 8 QC positions and Auburn has 6.
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