I thought this was a really good read.
Oklahoma hired Jim Nagy as a formal GM with a ton of power. Not sure if we need to do it the same way, but having a fully built-out staff is obviously mandatory to be competitive nowadays.
Crazy stat -- "Football generates, directly or indirectly, about three-fourths of Oklahoma’s $200 million annual athletic budget"
Here's a gifted article link: https://www.wsj.com/sports/football...a?st=LFoJy9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Nagy was unlike any other GM working in the college game. At OU, he is equal in rank to coach Brent Venables. The change was a dramatic departure from the archetype of the all-powerful football coach, whose dominion extended from the playbook to high-school recruiting.
Nagy oversees a staff that includes 10 full-time scouts, whose responsibilities include analyzing upcoming opponents, evaluating possible transfer portal entrants, as well as monitoring high-school recruits. In this way, it mirrors the way NFL teams divide tasks between a pro personnel department and a college scouting staff.
“In the NFL we very clearly realized that there’s a benefit to specialization,” Rosenberg said. “And when you talk about coaches who want to do everything or have control of everything, that has proven to not be a model that is successful.”
So far the partnership seems to be working. Nagy’s staff includes front-office veterans with experience in contract negotiations and pro scouting, taking over responsibilities from Venables, freeing up the coach to do more actual coaching.
Oklahoma hired Jim Nagy as a formal GM with a ton of power. Not sure if we need to do it the same way, but having a fully built-out staff is obviously mandatory to be competitive nowadays.
Crazy stat -- "Football generates, directly or indirectly, about three-fourths of Oklahoma’s $200 million annual athletic budget"
Here's a gifted article link: https://www.wsj.com/sports/football...a?st=LFoJy9&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Nagy was unlike any other GM working in the college game. At OU, he is equal in rank to coach Brent Venables. The change was a dramatic departure from the archetype of the all-powerful football coach, whose dominion extended from the playbook to high-school recruiting.
Nagy oversees a staff that includes 10 full-time scouts, whose responsibilities include analyzing upcoming opponents, evaluating possible transfer portal entrants, as well as monitoring high-school recruits. In this way, it mirrors the way NFL teams divide tasks between a pro personnel department and a college scouting staff.
“In the NFL we very clearly realized that there’s a benefit to specialization,” Rosenberg said. “And when you talk about coaches who want to do everything or have control of everything, that has proven to not be a model that is successful.”
So far the partnership seems to be working. Nagy’s staff includes front-office veterans with experience in contract negotiations and pro scouting, taking over responsibilities from Venables, freeing up the coach to do more actual coaching.
