Gaizka Crowley is the new football GM

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Arkansas identified its top target for its pivotal general manager position earlier this week under new head coach Ryan Silverfield.

Today, Silverfield's Razorbacks are getting their man.

Multiple sources tell FootballScoop that Gaizka Crowley is departing the University of Arizona, where he's been G.M. for the past two years, to take over the general manager role in Silverfield's inaugural Arkansas staff.

The move continues one of the more remarkable ascents in college football's ever-burgeoning personnel space.

A former XOS digital employee who had prep football and additional coaching experience at the high school level in his native Florida, Crowley has zoomed from working in personnel at the Football Championship Subdivision level at Eastern Illinois to the Football Bowls Subdivision space at both UNLV and Western Michigan, where he helped play a pivotal role in Lance Taylor establishing the foundational components of a roster that this season helped WMU win the Mid-American Conference Championship.

Crowley was pried away from Taylor by then-new Arizona head coach Brent Brennan. The Wildcats capped one of the best turnarounds in Power Conference football this season when they won nine games and earned an invitation to San Diego's Holiday Bowl.

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