the.com/coaching staffs
the entourage of people paid to yell at millionaires more precisely than the head coach can alone.
means the network of specialized assistants, coordinators, and analysts who plan strategy and train players under a head coach.
from once just a coach and maybe a trainer, staffs ballooned through the 20th century as sports professionalized, splitting into offense, defense, special teams, and now analytics departments rivaling small corporations.
nfl staff sizeoften exceeds 20 full-time coaches per team
job title inflationassistant to the assistant coordinator now exists
analytics takeoverdata scientists now sit in coaches meetings
turnover rateassistants get poached faster than head coaches fired