Senior Bowl executive director will now work with Oklahoma football program as GM
Senior Bowl executive director will now work with Oklahoma football program as GM
The Oklahoma Sooners made a big boy hire when they coaxed Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy to join the football program as general manager.
This might be the biggest hire of head coach Brent Venables' short tenure. The locals are getting restless with Oklahoma, a program not known for losing, has finished below .500 in two of three seasons under his leadership. With the ever-changing landscape of college football, the addition of Nagy is massive.
The announcement was made on Wednesday.
"The University of Oklahoma has hired Jim Nagy as the General Manager for Football while implementing a progressive new structure uniquely tailored to meet the most current challenges in college football. The general manager will work alongside the head football coach to construct a roster capable of competing at a championship level," per the Oklahoma press release.
The Sooners are coming off their first season in the SEC, where they finished 6-7 with a loss to Navy in the Armed Forces Bowl. Oklahoma also went 2-6 in conference play with wins over Auburn on the road and Alabama at home. The vision is that Nagy can help close the gap and get the Sooners back to where they were when competing for the CFP and conference titles yearly.
Nagy can lean on his experience of working in NFL scouting departments and as the executive director of the Reese's Senior Bowl.
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