When most folks picture “football staff” they probably think of the on-field coaches—the head coach, the coordinators, the position coaches. After all, those guys are always the most visible. But these days a football program’s staff goes way, way deeper than that, as this recent unscientific report from the NCAA outlines.
In addition to the on-field coaches, college football programs employ strength and conditioning guys, graduate assistants, recruiting specialists, and football operations personnel.
Some of these categories have caps on how many coaches you can employ. You can only have nine (soon to be 10) on-field coaches, for instance, and only five strength and conditioning coaches.