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Who is behind the BYU NIL collective CougConnect?

Jake Brandon, fourth from right on back row, co-founder of CougConnect, poses with young fans at a CougConnect event at a local park in Utah County.

Jake Brandon, fourth from right on back row, co-founder of CougConnect, poses with young fans at a CougConnect event at a local park in Utah County. (CougConnect)


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Jake Brandon, co-founder of CougConnect, remembers the moment when all the effort and hours and hours of building the name, image and likeness (NIL) collective for BYU athletes became "totally worth it" — although that had long since been apparent.

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