"Cody Campbell is surprisingly soft-spoken. On a cool Friday night in Fort Worth, Texas, a night built for high school football, over the din of cowbells and rattling bleachers and Will Smith's "Wild Wild West," it's difficult to hear the man who has become the loudest, most controversial voice in a fight to shape the future of college sports. Did he just say he hates political campaigning?"
"Campbell is calmly fiddling with the lid of a paper coffee cup, watching the All Saints' Episcopal High School football team blow out its final home opponent of the season. He doesn't holler at coaches or referees. His only reaction when his 14-year-old son, a 290-pound mauler on the offensive line, flattens an opposing linebacker is a pair of raised eyebrows and a small grin that barely creases the edges of his salt-and-pepper goatee."
"Campbell, 44, is an oil-made billionaire. At Texas Tech, where he has bankrolled much of the football team's unprecedented launch into national relevance and current spot in the College Football Playoff, he gets as many interview requests as the head coach. The former offensive lineman had a brief NFL career before co-founding one of the largest private oil and gas companies in West Texas, a business he still runs on top of his duties as a father of four,"
Cody Campbell is an oil-made billionaire and former offensive lineman who co-founded one of West Texas's largest private oil and gas companies. He chairs Texas Tech's board of regents and has bankrolled the football program's rise to national relevance and a College Football Playoff berth. He is an active Republican fundraiser who has spent millions on political outreach and television ads while publicly criticizing college football power brokers. He projects a soft-spoken, low-key personal demeanor in private settings, attends his son's high school games, and balances business, family duties, and high-profile involvement in college athletics and politics.
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