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ORLANDO — Like most football coaches in the ever-changing world of college athletics, Gus Malzahn is inundated with a variety of issues.
Rosters have never been more unstable. Name, image and likeness, combined with the transfer portal, has led to a free-agency-like trend. He’s fighting to retain his own players who are being recruited by power programs, while recruiting the next signing class and scouting the portal himself. The recruiting process has accelerated like never before, social media is changing the way players communicate, and bidding wars for prospects are now actually legal.
