INDIANAPOLIS -- College football's biggest game changers aren't wearing headsets anymore -- and that transformation was in full force at the NFL scouting combine. As NFL general managers analyzed 40-yard dashes and on-field drills inside Lucas Oil Stadium in February, a different kind of front office summit quietly unfolded down the street.
More than 300 attendees -- including 15 general managers, along with player personnel directors and recruiting staffers from 34 college football programs -- crowded into a corner room on the second floor of the Indianapolis Convention Center.
There, they unpacked the forces driving college football's newest arms race: the rise of the general manager and expanding front offices.