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- When it comes to coaching, Kliff Kingsbury does not ever plan to leave the NFL.
- He says he would do “anything” other than coaching in college.
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Kliff Kingsbury wants to be very clear that he will never, ever coach college football ever again. The 42-year-old head coach of the Arizona Cardinals says that he would rather clean toilets, mine coal, farm maggots or wash dishes than coach on the collegiate level.
Well, kind of.
During a recent appearance on the Pat McAfee Show, Kingsbury opened up about his future as a football coach. During the offseason, there were some rumors that circled about his potential candidacy for the open job at Oklahoma.
Whether Kingsbury was actually considered by the Sooners or not, he was not and is not ever returning to the collegiate level. He is adamant that he would never even consider it.
“I tell everybody and I’m not making this up, I would do anything before I went back to that,” he said. “Like I would do any job.”
Kingsbury went on to explain that coaching in college never stops. It is an all-day, everyday career, especially in the social media and technology era.
On the collegiate level, coaches have to constantly stay on top of recruiting, and when the season comes to a close, the focus shifts to buddying up with high schoolers. In the NFL, coaches don’t have to worry about anything from their final game of the season until the combine, and even then, the workload is much lighter until the preseason starts back up.
“It’s full time now [in college] with the social media and you’re either tweeting, calling, facetiming and there’s like this constant anxiety, because if you’re not doing it, the university down the street is. It just never goes away. [In the NFL], when you’re done with the football, you’re done, you go live your life. College, it just never goes away.”
Kingsbury recently put his money where his mouth is and signed a lucrative contract extension with the Cardinals. He is set to be with the team through 2027, so he won’t even have to think about the possibility of coaching in college until then.