Nothing gets an administration in college football more excited than hiring that young up-and-coming coaching from a group of five school. For the school licking their chops, getting this hot hire means provides hope for the program’s future. In a way, it’s like the school is lusting after the hottest girl at the party who is already taken. For the bigger school to get this coach, unfortunately, they will have to pry him away from his current position. What can the small school do to stop this from happening? Nothing as they don’t have the resources to convince him to stay.

The small school knows that the relationship won’t last forever, but they must enjoy it while they can. Like the hot girl analogy, if the guy knows he’s can’t keep the hot girl forever, will he spend his time thinking about who she will go to next? No, they should just enjoy the ride at that moment and get what they can.

Similar is the life of a G5 administrator. Winning at this level is a Catch-22 because while you are gaining notoriety for your program and giving yourself job security, your head coach will also begin to garner attention from numerous suitors on a bigger stage. It’s like dating your high school sweetheart before she gets smoking hot, only to have a bunch of rich old men coming after her. In a situation like this, love can only get you so far. Eventually the coach will leave the school due to the lures of money and fame. The best thing for an administrator to do in this situation is just to win all they can at this moment. Whether it’s last year’s Western Michigan or Houston, or Central Florida this year, you should keep winning to establish a program, hoping that it can sustain itself without that head coach the next year.

This year more hot, young coaches have emerged, let at the front of the pack by Scott Frost and Lane Kiffin. If Nebraska doesn’t sign Frost,  I won’t know what to do. All the UCF administration can do is sit back and enjoy the ride this year, hoping to get lucky and get into a BCS bowl because after that, Frost will be stolen away by a rich old man.