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College football coaches better adapt to empowered, outspoken players | Commentary

The most prominent, persuasive voice in the sport now belongs to your players — the young, emboldened, angry, idealistic players who are no longer willing to be silenced by the secretive, hush-hush policies of controlling, dictatorial head coaches.

It’s like the 1960s all over again when college students across the nation marched and demonstrated in favor of civil rights and against the Vietnam War while listening to Bob Dylan protest songs:

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Those squalling winds of dissent Dylan once sang about are now blowing through college football like a Category 5 hurricane.