North Texas Mean Green Coaching Staff 2023

cousin oliver · July 11, 2023

After losing Houston to the Big 12, the American Athletic Conference ended up trekking north in the Lone Star State to add its newest representative: North Texas. Here’s who comprises the coaching staff leading the Mean Green into the new realm for 2023.

Head Coach, Eric Morris

Morris takes over for Seth Littrell, who was fired on December 4, 2022, after seven seasons in Denton. Littrell’s teams were an even 44-44 overall with six bowl appearances. Last season’s 6-2 mark in Conference USA marked his best conference output since 2017. Littrell is now back at his alma mater, Oklahoma, as an offensive analyst.

While Morris comes over via Washington State, where he was the Cougars’ offensive coordinator, he’s no stranger to being a head coach in the state of Texas. He once led Incarnate Word from 2018-2021, where he guided the Cardinals to the 2018 and 2021 Southland Conference titles. He went 24-18 overall in San Antonio.

At Pullman, Morris guided Wazzu to ranking 10th nationally in red zone efficiency by scoring on 91.5% of its trips inside the 20. That production can help the Mean Green as they only scored red zone touchdowns in 36 of 56 attempts, giving them a 64.2% percentage.

He was with Houston for the 2010 and 2011 seasons, but that was during a time when the Cougars were in CUSA. He’s also part of the late Mike Leach coaching tree, serving as wide receivers coach and offensive coordinator from 2014-2017 at Texas Tech.

Assistant Head Coach and Special Teams Coordinator, Drew Svoboda

Svoboda was one of Morris’s first hires in December 2022. He’ll also handle the special teams unit while serving in the assistant role in Denton.

While Morris comes from the Leach tree, Svoboda gets plucked from the Nick Saban one, as Svoboda served as a senior special assistant to the multiple national title winner at Alabama from 2021-2022.

Svoboda additionally had a strong hand in the recruiting department at Tuscaloosa, which included identifying prep and transfer portal prospects. He also coached Cameron Latu at tight end before being drafted in the third round by the San Francisco 49ers.

While he had a prior stint at Memphis in 2021, Svoboda helps UNT with his own Texas roots, having coached high school ball in the Houston area at Caney Creek, Klein, and Oak Ridge High before moving on to Rice University from 2018 to 2020.

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NT80 · July 11, 2023

3 hours ago, cousin oliver said:

After losing Houston to the Big 12, the American Athletic Conference ended up trekking north in the Lone Star State to add its newest representative: North Texas.

I guess they forgot about the AAC adding Rice (in Houston).

However, still some nice writeups.