Could it be that there is a bug with coaches? For any reason I can't get a new backfield coach. I offer them the same money as my other position coaches but they always reject. But without accepting a better offer and they stay unemployed which I never had in the past if I remember correctly.

There's an issue I've reported.

It looks to be the case that the position is being treated as Head Coach, so the salary defaults to the minimum required for that so people can overpay.

If you are manually changing the salary then I suspect that's the problem.

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

To clarify, this isn't a problem for co-ordinators or head coach, only position coaches.