Oklahoma State is one of three Big 12 football programs without a general manager.

While former Cowboy Kenyatta Wright holds the title of “director of football business” — overseeing the finances in this new world of revenue sharing and NIL — Mike Gundy hasn’t ceded control when it comes to roster building.

“I know most schools are going to a general manager, which is basically taking over for the head coach and doing, I don't know, 75% of what he does,” Gundy said over the summer . “I'm not comfortable with that. I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I just feel like that's my job.”

But the “job” of a college football head coach is changing. While coaches, unlike in pro sports, remain the most powerful figures in college football, many of them are now working alongside a front offic

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