COLUMBIA, Mo. — As college football continues to professionalize and increasingly resemble the National Football League, there’s a trendy new role popping up on the sport’s metaphorical job boards: general manager.
That’s a standard role across pro football teams. The GM is the person who hires and fires coaches, who negotiates trades, who handles draft picks and contracts. And as more money and more reliance on contracts settles in around college football, there’s increased interest from some programs in appointing an NFL-esque general manager.
Oklahoma recently hired former NFL scout and Senior Bowl director Jim Nagy to be its GM.