SEC College Football program shockingly steals away a head coach to lead their tight ends

The College Football coaching carousel has been absolutely wild this spring. Nick Saban retiring. Bill O'Brien leaving Ohio State for Boston College. Chip Kelly leaving his head coaching gig at UCLA for Ohio State to be the offensive coordinator. Several coaches leaving for the NFL. It's been a whirlwind.

However, today's news might be the best reminder of where College Football is headed more than any other move this offseason.

According to the Athletic, South Carolina has reportedly stolen head coach Shawn Elliott away from Georgia State to coach their tight ends. Why is that shocking? And how does that encapsulate where college football is headed?

It's quite rare for an FBS-level head coach to leave to become a position coach somewhere else, let alone South Carolina (no offense, but they aren't a blue blood like Georgia). But that just speaks to the nature of the fact that the rich will be getting richer while the poor get poorer as the power continues to consolidate heavily inside the Big Ten and SEC.

Nobody wants to be completely left out in the cold as the foundation of college football is reformed over the next few years, and that apparently includes now former Georgia State head coach, Shawn Elliott.

Georgia State had already begun spring practices this week, but they will now be postponed since the entirety of their 2024 plans have now been completely changed. Players can now choose to transfer (if they can even do so academically) for the next 30 days. Other coaching dominoes on the team may fall now too.

It does make quite a bit of sense for coach Elliott since he's a South Carolina native whose family still lives there. So, congratulations to him and the whole Elliott family. But everyone else involved on the Georgia State side of things got absolutely screwed over by this news.

This is exactly why it's absurd when anyone asserts that "the players moving via the transfer portal" are what's ruining college football. Coaches "moving at will in the middle of semesters ruining entire plans for their college football program" is what's bad for the sport and it's exactly why power will continue to shift to the players in coming years.