Memo to College Football Coaches

NCAA Football Coach: Do not, I repeat, do not accept an NFL contract. You may be doing an amazing job at your current school and have 3 BCS trophies on your shelf but it doesn't matter. If you leave for the NFL, you will be miserable, drive a franchise into the ground, and have a whole lot of people hate you too. Here are a couple of examples:

Nick Saban: Leaves LSU for Miami. Leaves Miami in shambles as they now sit at 0-12. Signed a deal with Alabama and ended up losing a game to UL-Monroe...at home. LSU is playing for the title this year. Oops.

Steve Spurrier: Maybe if he didn't use each and every single quarterback in Washington he also had at UF, he might have done something. He is doing well at South Carolina...but Florida is still doing a lot better. They did win the NC last year, you know.

They're not the only ones. Today, your dumb old colleague Bobby Petrino ditched his Atlanta Falcons for the job at Arkansas. Boy is he stupid. First, I'm sure 13 games is a great sample of what it is like to be an NFL coach, especially when your star quarterback was sentenced to 23 months in jail. If you do what he did, you won't have any chance of getting back into the NFL if you wanted. Spurning someone like Arthur Blank is how you burn your NFL bridges. Ok, so I know I did say that coaching in college is better than the NFL so we should give good ol' Bobby some credit, right? No! What job did he take instead? Arkansas?! I guess he was away from college football for too long to realize how the administration really treated Houston Nutt pretty darn poorly. But you know that. You've been a college coach. Maybe he didn't get the other memo that Run DMC won't be around next year...maybe he can call up his former Atlanta friend, Warrick Dunn...not.

Sticking in college is as good as it's gonna get for you. There's always room to move up the coaching ladder, and you can actually build a dynasty here (unless of course you are Satan, aka Lucifelichick). The fans in college are always better too, and you don't have to worry about players holding out for money or guys taking plays off. Every play matters.

Do yourself a favor, and ignore the NFL. Just leave it to the guys already there. College is fun, you know that. Don't leave.

If you thought that 8-4 season sucked, just wait until you go 2-14 one season and 6-10 the next.

Thank You.

-Someone that has a lot more sense than Nick Saban, Bobby Petrino, and many, many more coaches that fell flat on their faces when making the jump.