FARGO — It’s the runaway freight train loaded with millions of tons of cargo, heading toward who knows what. It’s ruined college football, fans will say. The two words that are driving head coaches batty and out of the business.

Transfer portal.

The wild-spending, rule-breaking, greed-is-good free-for-all market may finally be getting some guard rails, however, and two of the most important figures in that are two familiar names to the Missouri Valley Football Conference. Craig Bohl and Bob Nielson may have hung up their coaching cleats, but they’re not done making an impact on student-athletes.

Bohl is the executive director of the American Football Coaches Association and Nielson, the former South Dakota head coach, is the director of divisional football, in essence a top assistant to

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