{"id":261301,"date":"2025-10-30T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261301\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:44:07","slug":"mike-mccarthy-pressed-on-if-he-has-considered-returning-to-coaching-college-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/261301\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McCarthy pressed on if he has considered returning to coaching college football"},"content":{"rendered":"

The college coaching carousel is looking like one of the largest in the history of the sport. That\u2019s going to leave plenty of open jobs for coaches. Of course, that includes those currently out of coaching, like Mike McCarthy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Super Bowl champion head coach appeared on The Pat McAfee Show on Thursday. There, he was pressed on whether or not he\u2019d consider going back into coaching at the college ranks. Incidentally, that\u2019s a level of the sport he loved before ending up in the NFL<\/a>\u2018s ecosystem. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a time when I first got into coaching, I got into it for college football,\u201d Mike McCarthy said. \u201cI mean, that was my goal back at the University of Pittsburgh<\/a>. I was there back in 1989 to 1992. If you would\u2019ve told me I could stay there for 25 years on an assistant coach\u2019s contract, I would\u2019ve signed it. I just felt that college football was superior to the young man\u2019s life, that you could make the biggest impact.\u201d <\/p>\n

McCarthy is a Pittsburgh native who would play college football at the NAIA level. He would even spend some time early in his career as a graduate assistant and wide receivers coach at Pitt. However, in 1993, he made the jump to the NFL. For the rest of his career, he would coach at that level. That includes two stints as a head coach with the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys. He\u2019d even win the Super Bowl with Green Bay. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo, that was my initial goal getting into coaching and what attracted me to get into coaching. But then, in 1993, I got an opportunity at a young age from Marty Schottenheimer to be in the National Football League at Kansas City. Really, from there, that\u2019s been my flight professionally. I looked at some things early in my time in the NFL,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cBut back then, it was so hard to get in the NFL. I could remember the first staff I was on, I think I was 29 years old. The next oldest guy might\u2019ve been in his late 30s, early 40s. It was such a hard league to get into, even more so at that time. I\u2019ve always viewed it as, I\u2019m here. I\u2019ll do everything I can to progress here and I\u2019ve been .\u201d <\/p>\n

One thing McCarthy has noticed is that the college game is different than it was when he was there. The most obvious is, of course, NIL and the House Settlement. In other words, players can make money now, and money does change that coach-to-player dynamic. <\/p>\n

\u201cI do agree with you,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cYou see the parallels now, how the college landscape has gone more toward the professional with the payment of players and so forth. I know just the friends that I have in college football, they do feel the regularity of the college game is starting to get more and more balanced and there is more clarity, but it\u2019s a tough gig. Especially seeing what\u2019s going on the last two weeks with some of these buyouts. So, I thought you made a lot of excellent points.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Bill Belichick<\/a> was initially hired by North Carolina<\/a>, part of the argument in favor of the hire was that he understood building a roster when working with a salary cap. That hasn\u2019t worked very well so far, but it\u2019s an argument another team could agree with. If that\u2019s the case, then there\u2019s a chance someone does kick the tires on a veteran coach like Mike McCarthy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The college coaching carousel is looking like one of the largest in the history of the sport. That\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,140989,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-261301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-mike-mccarthy","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}