The general manager role in college sports remains in its infancy. Oklahoma took a forward-thinking step by hiring Jim Nagy in early 2025 to model an NFL-style front office, but the evolving position still comes with its share of challenges. "You don’t want to take a high school kid and pay them more than an All-American player/All-Conference player (on your roster)," Nagy said on the most recent episode of university president Joseph Harroz Jr.'s podcast, Conversations With the President . On the episode, Nagy and Harroz addressed a number of topics but got into what the Sooner general manager hopes for the future — a freshman salary cap. That belief grew from something he learned early in the job. "One blind spot I had coming into the job was I didn’t think the players would talk as much, and share the information as much," Nagy said.…