{"id":306835,"date":"2025-10-16T01:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306835\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T01:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T01:45:11","slug":"j-j-watt-reveals-coaching-college-football-has-absolutely-no-appeal-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/306835\/","title":{"rendered":"J.J. Watt reveals coaching college football has ‘absolutely no appeal’ to him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Future Pro Football Hall of Famer J.J. Watt<\/a><\/strong> has stayed busy following his retirement, as he has made the transition to the CBS Sports announcing booth every Sunday. He expects to be there for a while, as he shot down any idea of him potentially jumping into the coaching world.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday\u2019s edition of \u2018The Pat McAfee Show<\/a>,\u2019 Watt was jokingly asked whether or not he would step in and coach at his alma mater Wisconsin<\/a><\/strong>. The Badgers have struggled mightily under head coach Luke Fickell<\/a><\/strong>, as they are just 14-17 since he took over in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe life of a college football coach has absolutely no appeal whatsoever to me,\u201d Watt said. \u201cI like coaching football, just the pure on-the-field Xs and Os, like helping guys be better at what they do and create the best they can. But, then you add in all the meetings, you add in all the hours, and you add in recruiting and the traveling and having to go to these 17-year-old kids and be like, \u2018Hey, you\u2019re the greatest in the world, come to the university.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, you add the NIL and the boosters, and people coming at you after the game,\u201d Watt continued. \u2018You didn\u2019t cover the spread, what\u2019s going on\u2026?\u2019 I don\u2019t want to deal with any of that sh*t, man. You could pay me $50 million, and I don\u2019t want to go and do that. I have no interest in it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watt played three seasons at Wisconsin<\/strong> (2008-2010) after transferring from Central Michigan<\/a><\/strong>. There, he was named First Team All-Big Ten and First Team All-American in 2010, which led to him being selected with the No. 11 overall pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. Watt, who played 12 NFL seasons (10 with the Houston Texans), was named NFL Defensive Player of the Year three times, was named First Team All-Pro five times and led the NFL in sacks twice. <\/p>\n

Although it might not be Watt, a new head coach at Wisconsin<\/strong> could soon be on the horizon. Fickell\u2019s buyout sits at $27.5 million (25th highest in college football<\/a>) and coaches have been fired for much less this season already. This includes Penn State<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s James Franklin<\/a><\/strong> and Oklahoma State<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s Mike Gundy<\/a><\/strong>, who had led their team to more wins than Fickell\u2019s Wisconsin<\/strong> program over the past three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Future Pro Football Hall of Famer J.J. Watt has stayed busy following his retirement, as he has made…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":306836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,155339,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-306835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jj-watt","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115381320099121595","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}