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UNDATED (AP) — The NCAA's new transfer rules, including the creation of the so-called portal, have changed the process by which athletes switch schools, loosening some restrictions and leading more players to explore options. Football coaches have responded by throwing more manpower toward monitoring that growing talent pool and the task of scouting the portal. The process has become more transparent and orderly, but some coaches have not yet given up the old way of doing business.
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Dick Tomey, the winningest football coach in University of Arizona history, has died at 80. His family and the university say he died in Tucson. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in December. Tomey spent 14 years at Arizona, going 95-64 while taking the Wildcats to seven bowl games. He began his career as a head coach at Hawaii in 1977 and closed it at San Jose State before retiring in 2009 at 71.
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