Former North Texas Coach Jerry Moore receives award

[Harry]

Moore is a Hall of Fame football coach who won 215 games at App State from 1989-2012. He led the Mountaineers to three straight national championships from 2005-07, directed the historic 34-32 road upset of Michigan to begin the 2007 season and helped Appalachian capture 10 conference championships in 24 seasons.
 
“The thing that happens to you when you stay some place for as long as we have, it becomes dear to you in a lot of ways — a lot more than wins and losses,” Moore said. “There’s so many things that happen in your life, so many things you have memories of that are everlasting, more and more so with 34-32 in front of 109,218 people.
 
“My family and I can’t thank you enough for an honor like this. It truly is an honor.”

Long-time Yosef Club member Robert Fox presented the award to Moore, who was greeted by hugs from family members and friends as the sold-out crowd stood to applaud. Moore first arrived in Boone following stints as a coach at five colleges, including time as the head coach at both North Texas and Texas Tech in the 1980s.
 
He has been inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame, the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame, the Southern Conference Hall of Fame and the Appalachian State Athletics Hall of Fame.

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[drex]

Good for Jerry...always liked him.  He got better with age and experience.

[GrandGreen]

A good coach that NT hired too early in his career.  

[ttunt1970]

Jerry was a good guy, but took a finesse team and tried to run Nebraska power running attack and wasted that Jordan Case senior class. To his credit after left NT and Tech learned to adapt scheme to talent. Happy for him.