Texas FBS coaches sound off on the first fall camp without on-field coach restrictions

In June, the NCAA did what it does best: it removed a rule no one followed anyway, allowing all coaches to instruct players on practices and game days instead of the designated ten assistants and head coach. Quality control assistants and analysts no longer have to play a game of telephone, telling another coach to give a tip to a player he can’t talk to. 

Larger FBS schools have hired more former head coaches to vague analyst roles in recent years, creating a compliance nightmare. Those coaches could encourage but not instruct, clap but not pat.