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DENTON — Looking at the proverbial glass as half-full, the 2017 season was overwhelmingly positive for North Texas. In year two under head coach Seth Littrell, the Mean Green played for their first conference title in Conference USA and went to a second consecutive bowl game. UNT, which finished 9-5, also had a chance for only the second 10-win season in school history. However, looking at the flipside, the Mean Green finished the season 0-2 with blowout losses at Florida Atlantic in the C-USA Championship Game (41-17) and to Troy in the New Orleans Bowl (50-30). And even several months later, the sting from those losses remains painful for Whitehouse product Nate Brooks, now a senior defensive back, and his teammates. “Of course, we ended the year 0-2, didn’t accomplish our mission, so that’s still driving us today in our workouts and these practices. Just losing those two games and not accomplishing what we wanted to accomplish (still hurts),” Brooks said. read more: https://tylerpaper.com/sports/college/after-disappointing-end-to-nate-brooks-and-unt-look-to/article_73ab5a6c-210a-11e8-ab4f-b3ce3de79d8d.html -
“I felt like as a team we were able to overcome adversity fairly quick because there was no finger pointing. I think we had good chemistry. We talk a lot about that. That’s why I think chemistry’s so important.” That’s a lesson he learned at Oklahoma, where he played and coached under now-former Sooners head coach Bob Stoops, who recently retired after a long and distinguished tenure in Norman, a departure Littrell sees with mixed emotions. “Well, it’s two-way. I’m very happy for him. This is something he didn’t want to do up until his 60s or 70s,” Littrell said. “He wanted to have a great career and when it was time to go, go, so he got to do it under his own terms, which I’m really excited for him. But I’m also sad for Oklahoma and college football because he’s an unbelievable head coach. I have a lot of respect for him not only as a coach, but the man he is, the way he treats his staff, his players.” Stoops was known for how well he treated everyone tied to OU football like family, but also for the enthusiasm and energy he brought every single day, two qualities Littrell, a member of Oklahoma’s 2000 national championship team, is also not short on. read more: http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/sports/lessons-went-with-muskogee-native-turned-north-texas-head-coach/article_3a919920-6cf7-11e7-b364-0fddb8e23445.html