Beast wrote in fan shout:Coaching takes an incredible amount of energy, focus, and commitment. I saw the amount of time my husband and one of my sons had to allocate to do a good job of coaching... and that was only at a high school level.

Now think about how much additional time has to be spent with other non teaching and practice commitments of these college and pro coaches:
• dealing with the press
• dealing with your bosses / administrators
• recruiting - college or pro. Made even more difficult by the transfer portal
• dealing with alumni or season ticket holders
• doing the PR work required by the organization.
• Scouting

For college and professional coaches, many times they are not in control of their own destiny. Bad recruiting classes or bad drafts leave you working with players who just can't get it done, and then you lose your job because of it.

And the profession is very difficult on families. It must take a very special woman to be a supportive wife who has to take care of more than her share of things as their husband's focus on these very time consuming jobs.

It's an incredibly difficult profession if you want to do it well, and my hat goes off to all of these guys (other than Pete Carroll.)

I wonder if we all shouldn't take a step back and cut these guys a little bit of slack (Joe Barry perhaps) instead of having knee jerk reactions to subpar performance of teams.

I know they asked for it, and I know it is a meritocracy at the end of the day, but it's not easy... especially for older guys.

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It is amazing how the coaching position has transitioned to younger and younger coaches. I guess that is not a surprise given the old school style of the domineering coach has fallen to the wayside and players don't react positively to it. Not to say that older coaches can't adapt, but they grew up in a era with different expectations of what a coach is to be like.

I am not sure where I saw the post, but there is also rumours of this being Andy Reid's last season. I guess after a certain amount of time and accomplishments there really isn't much more left to achieve in the football world other than wait for your induction into the football hall of fame. Spending time with your family starts to become the priority and perhaps rewarding that spouse for picking up the slack all those years.