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With the new regime on board I hope do more celebrate the athletic history of UNT. After the Joe Green statue, I think next person that should be honored in a bigger way is Coach Mitchell. If Joe is our "Willie Mayes" who came after our Jackie Robinsons :(King & Hayes) would it be wrong to call Odus Mithell our Branch Rickey? Even when I do a Google search on this coach it seems like his legacy is deliberately diminished. He led North Texas to the most conference titles as head coach also. The total is mentioned but the fact that is the most in the history of the school's football program isn't. And the fact is that there are probably no "Mean" Joe Greens on campus for Hayden Frye to coach to greatness without Odus Mitchell making the decision to integrate his team. Or at very the least his decision not to stand in the way of the person who made call paved the way. How instrumental was Odus Mitchell to the integration of UNT Football? I can only theorize because I wasn't there and my internet research has revealed little. Even the DRC article honoring 100 years of UNT football (circa 2013) doesn't even mention Mitchell while documenting the story of Abner and King. It does however mention the JV coach? http://www.dentonrc.com/sports/colleges/north-texas-headlines/20130728-football-eras-of-success.ece?ssimg=1121938 No offense to the JV coach but I bet his head wasn't going to be the biggest head to roll if integration was a failure for UNT Football.