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WSJ: How Oklahoma became like an NFL Team

HurricanePhilly said:
They lose this weekend if Mateer doesn’t play.

All these titles, GM’s etc are great and help. But in the end you need certain things on every great team.

Oklahoma is good with Mateer…without Mateer they are closer to 8-4
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Bingo. Makes for a great story since they're winning but a huge majority of it all comes down to them landing Mateer who wanted to play close to home.
 
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TomAce said:
Their AD, Joe Castiglino, has long been one of the best in the business. Curios to see how he is replaced and the possible fall out
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They are replacing him with AT&T former CEO who is a OU alum.

From what I remember reading they are basically giving Nagy the power over the football program, while the new AD will be more of CEO type/fundraiser.
 
There are terrible NFL teams with all these positions. But yeah its necessary to delegate. Its a pressure cooker of work.
 
Walsh5 said:
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.
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All that and Oklahoma, for the most part, has sucked donkey balls.
 
gogeta4 said:
like the **** with the articles their head coach was on the hot seat to be fired.....lol

All this sounds good n all but its ****** Oklahoma. This is ..and have been done at most major programs man this isnt some new found thing
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water is wet!
 
OU gonna lose today. They started doing those indoor practices to try to be mysterious. That’s loser stuff. Not my opinion, but a fact
 
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