re: College Head coaches are leaving for the NFL as assistant coaches.

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There needs to be a cap on NIL

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Illegal, unless somehow a cap is collectively bargained....which creates a whole other mess of problems.

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plus the transfer rules need to go back to what they were with the mandatory 1 year penalty for transferring.

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I don't disagree. But like EVERYTHING that happened during the great overreaction of 2020, the tube is out of the toothpaste on that and it isn't going back in. Even the effort to limit transfers to just one "free" transfer has failed as the courts (temporarily) struck down the validity of that rule.

More and more good coaches are going to leave college if they have the opportunity. The lifestyle in the NFL is much better. The job security (or lack thereof) in the NFL and major college football is about the same now. But at least in the NFL coaches get a pretty lengthy, and well defined, offseason. As a college coach you are CONSTANTLY recruiting HS players as well has now having to constantly recruit your own roster. A roster full of (mostly) immature 18-22 year olds who are being "advised" by shady "middle-men" and greedy, unintelligent, hanger-on family members to constantly leverage their HC for more and more money. Money that the HC essentially has to fundraise from wealthy supporters who, come with their own set of problems.

If you are a guy like Saban who has accomplished everything and has all of the money he will ever need, the headache just isn't worth it. Same for any HC who is successful. At some point you say to yourself "frick it. I just want to coach football. If I'm going have to deal with the 'business of football" I may as well do it in the NFL where at least there is a pretty firm structure. And where once the season is over I can spend 3, 4, 5 months away from the grind, enjoying my life"