{"id":119700,"date":"2025-06-10T21:43:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/119700\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T21:43:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T21:43:12","slug":"ou-football-announces-six-new-front-office-hires-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/119700\/","title":{"rendered":"OU Football announces six new front office hires | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The OU Athletics Department announced Monday the addition of six football front office hires set to join general manager Jim Nagy\u2019s staff, pending approval from the OU Board of Regents this week.<\/p>\n<p>Since taking over as the general manager in February, Nagy has assembled a loaded front office in charge of managing and building OU\u2019s roster as it shifts towards a more professionalized model of college football.<\/p>\n<p>The six new hires include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Lake Dawson, Senior Assistant General Manager<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Taylor Redd, Assistant General Manager<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Drew Hill, Director of Scouting<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Kale Pearson, Director of High School Scouting<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Stacey Ford, Director of Player Personnel and Retainment<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;\u00a0Charlie Parkinson, Assistant Director of College Scouting<\/p>\n<p>Lake Dawson, Senior Assistant General Manager<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dawson has spent the last 25 years working in the NFL in various scouting and front office roles. Dawson also spent six years in the NFL as a wide receiver with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Indianapolis Colts.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Redd, Assistant General Manager<\/p>\n<p>Students pay about $14 in fees that support the Daily. If you&#8217;re not a student, please join those invested in OU and Norman who have given more than $110,000 to support our trustworthy, independent journalism. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/give.oufoundation.org\/OUDaily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><br \/>\n                SUPPORT OUR LOCAL JOURNALISM<br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Redd most recently served as a senior consultant with The Athlete Group and also spent six years in the scouting department for the New England Patriots.<\/p>\n<p>Drew Hill, Director of Scouting<\/p>\n<p>Hill will be entering his 12th season at OU. Hill has spent 11 years as the Sooners\u2019 director of player personnel and will step into his first season as the director of scouting this year.<\/p>\n<p>Kale Pearson, Director of High School Scouting<\/p>\n<p>Pearson spent the last three years at the U.S. Airforce Academy, where he served as the football general manager, running the recruiting department and serving as the NFL liaison.<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Ford, Director of Player Personnel and Retainment<\/p>\n<p>Ford spent last year at UCLA as the director of player personnel and also served as the director of recruiting at Washington State for two years prior.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Parkinson, Assistant Director of College Scouting<\/p>\n<p>Parkison most recently served as a scouting assistant for the Reece\u2019s Senior Bowl. Prior to that, he spent three years with The 33rd Team, a football think tank, where he worked as a scout, content creator and talent assistant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Following approval from the OU Board of Regents, the new staff will look to make an immediate impact in the Sooners&#8217; front office.<\/p>\n<p>This story was edited by Parker Coyne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The OU Athletics Department announced Monday the addition of six football front office hires set to join general&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,16635,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-119700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-homepage-sports","10":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114661255096213854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}