UNT hired Washington State offensive coordinator and former Incarnate Word head coach Eric Morris to take over its program on Tuesday

[Mean Green 93-98]

5 minutes ago, Hunter Green said:

Mattress Mac better be sending us A LOT of money. This is his guy.

No, Kenny Perry was his guy.

[Mad Hatter]

I like it. He's the reason I've EVER heard of UIW. Remember thinking how awesome it was that they got a young guy who put them on the map. 

[Cr1028]

2 minutes ago, L Ron Studdard said:

https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4688380/cameron-ward

 

Hmm

He’d have to sit a year if he transferred again.

[TripleGrad]

Not the marquee name we needed to make a media/recruitment splash, but we shall see how it works out.

Let me welcome him to the board:  "Fire Eric!"

[El Paso Eagle]

Morris Info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Morris_(American_football)

 

[Uncle]

All I can say is  - Welcome Coach Morris! Let's go win some games!!

[MrAlien]

Im not sure if this is an improvement, he has not coached or recruited at the G5 level.

[Hunter Green]

1 minute ago, Mean Green 93-98 said:

No, Kenny Perry was his guy.

My bad. Thanks.

[El Paso Eagle]

Just now, Cr1028 said:

He’d have to sit a year if he transferred again.

Could always ask for a waiver???

[zenhuddy]

He’s got my vote - let’s see who he can attract and how fast - he passed the test of been an HC and is a excellent offensive mind ! Can develop QBs  too. 

[laxtonto]

Just now, Jason Howeth said:

Here's hoping he proves something to us in his press conference. This came so far out of left field that we want to think it makes no sense, but if I'm honest, I think I have too much faith in Smatresk and Mosley to not hire the right guy here. 

That is, unless Fuente and Riley turned us down...

I think Riley turning down A&M for 3yrs at 2M per took him off the board early this week.

So the real question is what made them pivot from Fuentes to Morris?

[MeanGreenTexan]

I don't know why we would move on from Seth Littrell to hire someone who's resume isn't as strong as his.

Initially, I'm not a fan.    But, willing to give him a try.

[Mean Green 93-98]

1 minute ago, laxtonto said:

So the real question is what made them pivot from Fuentes to Morris?

I have to wonder . . . is it because Fuente would have been Wren's guy, whereas this is clearly a Jared Mosley hire?  Just wondering if that couldn't be a factor.

[Mean Green 93-98]

Just now, MeanGreenTexan said:

I don't know why we would move on from Seth Littrell to hire someone who's resume isn't as strong as his.

Initially, I'm not a fan.    But, willing to give him a try.

Pretty much my feelings.

I'll be rooting for his success, regardless.

[herewego]

Such a bad hire.

Underwhelming ✔️

Non QB Position Coach HC ✔️

Wasting Money on Buyouts✔️

Non Recruiting OC to HC✔️

AD Underperforming (ill start a gofundme for the banner this time around)✔️

Linear move at best, waste of money should have stuck with seth for a year.  

Get ready boys feels like 2016 again, except the uniforms are worse now. 

[NT80]

6 minutes ago, Jason Howeth said:

Here's hoping he proves something to us in his press conference. This came so far out of left field that we want to think it makes no sense, but if I'm honest, I think I have too much faith in Smatresk and Mosley to not hire the right guy here. 

That is, unless Fuente and Riley turned us down...

I agree.  Seems like a reach.  I like him better than Perry but not sure he has the experience we need to elevate our program??

[MrAlien]

4 minutes ago, laxtonto said:

So the real question is what made them pivot from Fuentes to Morris?

was it money??

[MeanGreen4Life1998]

Well that’s underwhelming

[NT93]

When SL was fired, Morris was one of my top choices.  I hadn’t heard his name mentioned so I wrongly assumed he wasn’t a candidate. Time will tell, but I think this is a very good hire.

Edited December 13, 2022 by NT93

[meangreanmick]

It’s a bit of a risk, but he has a lot of positives.    Strong Texas Ties, been a head coach, successful coordinator at P5 level.   I think he can bring a lot to the table (I hope) - he needs to recruit better and he needs to get engaged with/get the fan base excited.   If he does that, he is an upgrade.

[Jason Howeth]

2 minutes ago, herewego said:

Such a bad hire.

Underwhelming ✔️

Non QB Position Coach HC ✔️

Wasting Money on Buyouts✔️

Non Recruiting OC to HC✔️

AD Underperforming (ill start a gofundme for the banner this time around)✔️

Linear move at best, waste of money should have stuck with seth for a year.  

Get ready boys feels like 2016 again, except the uniforms are worse now. 

Step out of the bunker every once in a while, dude.

[MGNation92]

I guess they're really banking on his ability to find a quality QB.

Hope y'all are looking forward to some explosive shootouts every game. At least we won't be bored

[Moobs]

16 minutes ago, CaribbeanGreen said:

This came out of nowhere. Never thought I'd learn about the hire from an ESPN push notification. 

Same.  

I guess we're big time now! 

[outoftown]

I tend to think this is a good hire. Nobody ever knows for sure (Hiring Frost at Nebraska also looked good to almost everybody). Yes its not a name everybody knows, but he has done head coaching at the FCS level. Probably will actually need less on-the job training than SL did. Is young, and I sure hope he'll bring the necessary energy and understanding of the portal and about how to recruit with 18-23 year olds. As a Texas and FCS guy he will also know what he is getting into and not be thinking that the resources here are not enough. In fact I think NT doesn't have that much less than WSU did.

I also think that this hire ought not to break donors bank, so that all of those big money donors can then funnel some money into NIL instead. At NTs level i think this probably actually the more efficient way to win.

Color me cautiously optimistic

Edited December 13, 2022 by outoftown

[gordo nation]

Sad day for UNT... It is embarrassing and it shows we're incapable of conducting national level searches outside of Texas. You'll hear in the next few days that he has "great connections to Texas" but many of us are too stubborn to understand that the true talent in Texas does NOT want to play at a school like UNT. You're fighting for scraps when you've got a program like UNT, and you'll see in the next few years that this hire will do absolutely nothing to push UNT forward

 

Justin Fuente was the homerun hire here but for small minded reasons, they went to their "good ol boy network" and picked someone like this. Extremely sad