Confirmed: Graham Harrell to UNT

[MeanGreenGlory]

"CF.C HAS CONFIRMED FootballScoop.com's report that first-year outside wide receivers coach Graham Harrell is leaving Washington State.  Harrell is becoming the offensive coordinator at North Texas, the source told CF.C"

Link: http://www.scout.com/college/washington-state/story/1621775-source-wsu-s-graham-harrell-going-south?hootPostID=4fcd1559917bc5705e70864e2f673e18

[Wag Tag]

Wow! This is SO AWESOME!!!!

[Ben Gooding]

Pretty solid lock. Just on name value alone this staff is shaping up to blow our previous one out of the water, specifically with the up and coming recruits. 

[jdennis82]

Bring back the tortilla celebrations?

[Green92]

Bring back the tortilla celebrations?

I wish I could give you more than +1 for the laugh. Good memories. 

[Graham]

as both a Graham and a UNT fan I say 

[Harry]

as both a Graham and a UNT fan I say 

LOL

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

This is great and I'm sure some heads are turning over in Lubbock. 

[EagleMBA]

This is great and I'm sure some heads are turning over in Lubbock. 

[ADLER]

This is great news. 

I hope these new coaches know that they'll need to evaluate the team's needs and hit the recruiting trail hard immediately. Dodge lolligagged and it wound up ultimately destroying his collegiate coaching career.

[El Paso Eagle]

This is great news. 

I hope these new coaches know that they'll need to evaluate the team's needs and hit the recruiting trail hard immediately. Dodge lolligagged and it wound up ultimately destroying his collegiate coaching career.

Dodge's fall was due to coach selections, not players

[Ben Gooding]

It's crazy to think that our OC has bigger name recognition than our HC. Where else does that happen? But with our recent offensive offense this is a good thing to have. 

 

 

*Maybe Gene Chizik and Larry Fedora. 

Edited December 10, 2015 by Ben Gooding

[hickoryhouse]

"CF.C HAS CONFIRMED FootballScoop.com's report that first-year outside wide receivers coach Graham Harrell is leaving Washington State.  Harrell is becoming the offensive coordinator at North Texas, the source told CF.C"

Link: http://www.scout.com/college/washington-state/story/1621775-source-wsu-s-graham-harrell-going-south?hootPostID=4fcd1559917bc5705e70864e2f673e18

I'm glad to know that name recognition is the biggest part of hiring an offensive coordinator.   I never knew that before.  So from a "first year OUTSIDE WIDE RECIEVERS COACH" to an Offensive Coordinator.....   That's the progression, that's the experience, that's the ideal!!!    Good to know that name recognition as the thing we hang our hat on!!!!

 

now, 100% support to coach Harrell, welcome aboard and let's kick some ass!!!!  I hope I am proven wrong and that coach Harrell, along with Littrell, really is the offensive guru we all want him to be. 

 

GMG.    Fire RV

[GreenN'walinsVet]

 

I'm glad to know that name recognition is the biggest part of hiring an offensive coordinator.   I never knew that before.  So from a "first year OUTSIDE WIDE RECIEVERS COACH" to an Offensive Coordinator.....   That's the progression, that's the experience, that's the ideal!!!    Good to know that name recognition as the thing we hang our hat on!!!!

 

now, 100% support to coach Harrell, welcome aboard and let's kick some ass!!!!  I hope I am proven wrong and that coach Harrell, along with Littrell, really is the offensive guru we all want him to be. 

 

GMG.    Fire RV

you have to remember. Litrell is our OC. He is a leach protege and if you have ever watched leach he is the one calling plays.  Period. Harrell's job is to be Litrells eyes in the sky

[hickoryhouse]

you have to remember. Litrell is our OC. He is a leach protege and if you have ever watched leach he is the one calling plays.  Period. Harrell's job is to be Litrells eyes in the sky

that should be a job title.     

 

Grahm Harrell

Coach's Eyes in the Sky

[ChristopherRyanWilkes]

 

I'm glad to know that name recognition is the biggest part of hiring an offensive coordinator.   I never knew that before.  So from a "first year OUTSIDE WIDE RECIEVERS COACH" to an Offensive Coordinator.....   That's the progression, that's the experience, that's the ideal!!!    Good to know that name recognition as the thing we hang our hat on!!!!

 

now, 100% support to coach Harrell, welcome aboard and let's kick some ass!!!!  I hope I am proven wrong and that coach Harrell, along with Littrell, really is the offensive guru we all want him to be. 

 

GMG.    Fire RV

Yeah, its worked out horribly for Sonny Cumbie.

2011-2012	Texas Tech (IWR)
2013	Texas Tech (Co-OC)
2014-present	TCU (Co-OC/QB)

Edited December 11, 2015 by ChristopherRyanWilkes

[Aldo]

Good golly it's hard keeping up with all these multiple threads. 

Read the scout article and it made me feel a little better about this hire. 

Just come in, install Littrell's system, and teach this offense. Look good, get hired away, and I'll call this a success. 

[foutsrouts]

I'm very pleased with the regional ties, family legacy, and his overall success in the game of football, but I have to play a little devil's advocate and say that he's easily one of the least experienced OC's that I've ever seen hired at a D1 school. A young staff can be an exciting thing and hopefully good for recruiting, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see if this is a home run hire or otherwise.

I just hope that we go with a little more proven experience with the rest of the staff. God forbid that we end up with the majority of our staff bogged down in an extended "TD-like" learning curve. Having said that, welcome aboard Graham, and get out there and find us some big-time aerial game tools ASAP!  

[JRock]

So awesome. 

[foutsrouts]

Our new OC hire just got a plug on Channel 11 news. Nice. His name recognition should help out with the local media. 

[mad dog]

 

I'm glad to know that name recognition is the biggest part of hiring an offensive coordinator.   I never knew that before.  So from a "first year OUTSIDE WIDE RECIEVERS COACH" to an Offensive Coordinator.....   That's the progression, that's the experience, that's the ideal!!!    Good to know that name recognition as the thing we hang our hat on!!!!

 

now, 100% support to coach Harrell, welcome aboard and let's kick some ass!!!!  I hope I am proven wrong and that coach Harrell, along with Littrell, really is the offensive guru we all want him to be. 

 

GMG.    Fire RV

I kinda had the same thought at first.  It seems like an awfully quick promotion.  I hope that's because he's qualified and not just for name recognition.  Although Littrell can probably afford to have a less seasoned OC since he's the offensive guru.  But I agree with others - I would like to see a much more seasoned DC, just to balance everything out.

[TheReal_jayD]

 

Yeah, its worked out horribly for Sonny Cumbie.

2011-2012	Texas Tech (IWR)
2013	Texas Tech (Co-OC)
2014-present	TCU (Co-OC/QB)

 

 

Harrell stats

Year	School	Conf	Class	Pos	G	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Y/A	AY/A	TD	Int	Rate
Career	Texas Tech					1403	2011	69.8	15793	7.9	8.4	134	34	154.3
*2005	Texas Tech	Big 12	FR	QB	6	37	55	67.3	422	7.7	8.8	3	0	149.7
*2006	Texas Tech	Big 12	SO	QB	13	412	617	66.8	4555	7.4	7.8	38	11	145.5
*2007	Texas Tech	Big 12	JR	QB	13	512	713	71.8	5705	8.0	8.5	48	14	157.3
*2008	Texas Tech	Big 12	SR	QB	13	442	626	70.6	5111	8.2	9.0	45	9	160.0

 

Cumbie stats

Year	School	Conf	Class	Pos	G	Cmp	Att	Pct	Yds	Y/A	AY/A	TD	Int	Rate
Career	Texas Tech					461	704	65.5	5116	7.3	7.0	33	19	136.6
*2002	Texas Tech	Big 12	SO	QB	2	5	6	83.3	34	5.7	5.7	0	0	130.9
*2003	Texas Tech	Big 12	JR	QB	6	35	56	62.5	340	6.1	5.6	1	1	115.8
*2004	Texas Tech	Big 12	SR	QB	12	421	642	65.6	4742	7.4	7.1	32	18	138.5

 

not to mention Graham was a little more successful running the offense for center..

[philtex]

All the gloom and doom on these coaching hire decisions threads/posts is really quite hilarious. The reality is why would an established coordinator from a major successful program want to come into the nightmare that has been UNT football for most of our recent history? There was an article in today's USA today that outlined how the power conference program's assistant coaches are making a ton of money now- and how it is becoming more and more difficult for the lesser programs to hire away assistants to become HC in places like ours! It used to be easy, but the money and security has become too large at the top. The article listed about 5 recent examples (Seth included) where smaller programs were able to land an HC from those ranks. If we have a young head coach with a background in a specific system, then it makes total sense that he would go with coaches that are familiar with that system either as players, coaches or both. (and that he trusts based on the time he was associated with them) I understand that there is a bit of rolling the dice here, but if you want to feel better with a safer, older OC to bring in who has his own system, count me out. If you are taking a chance with the young HC, then I say surround him with as many guys that have worked within that frame work before. I agree with most posters that when you take this younger hiring approach,  if we are lucky and we see success, we are really hoping to get what, 2 or 3 seasons out of this regime? At the moment, UNT is the perfect environment for a new system to come in, find success, and then move on to greener pastures. At least if this happens, a system will be in place and it will be much easier to make a transition at that point. I realize this approach cannot win any fear arguments: these guys don't have the track records yet that will ensure success. But one must realize that if they did, the last place they would be headed right now would be to join the Mean Green.

Edited December 11, 2015 by philtex

[Aldo]

I'm more comfortable with an experiment at OC than one at HC. 

Particularly bc said HC has a long track record of success with his offense, and said OC has long experience playing in, and working with said offense. 

[JesseMartin]

Regardless of how it works out, my initial reaction was, "HOLY $#!+!"

I'm impressed with the coaches we've landed.  I'll be even more impressed if they turn out as awesome as I'm hoping.