OU's fall camp means special reunion for Seth Littrell and two former UNT standouts

[Jonnyeagle]

NORMAN — Jake Roberts and Febechi Nwaiwu are at fall camp with a familiar face guiding every step at their new home.

The Oklahoma players are reunited with former North Texas head coach Seth Littrell, who is the Sooners’ first-year offensive coordinator. Both played for Littrell at the American Athletic Conference school before transferring to Norman this past off-season.

“He’s real laid-back,” Roberts told reporters after Saturday night’s practice. “If you guys have been around him, you’d know. A man of few words. He’s not going to say a ton, but his words are meaningful and he’s a real personable guy. Our relationship was really strong at UNT.”

Roberts, a senior tight end, played for the Mean Green between 2020-22 before transferring to Baylor for the 2023 campaign. Nwaiwu was an offensive lineman at UNT from 2021-23. Littrell was the North Texas head coach from 2016-22 before joining OU’s staff as an offensive analyst last year...

It’s been awesome. He’s the same old guy. We’re running a lot of the same stuff and it’s just good to be back with him and kind of just picked up right where we left off,” Roberts said.

While playing for the Mean Green, he had 43 catches for 541 yards and three touchdowns. In his one year at Baylor, he had 23 catches for 231 yards and a score.

He’s looking to add depth to the team this season.

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[UNTLifer]

Who are these people?

[KingDL1]

19 minutes ago, UNTLifer said:

Who are these people?

I do not know. 

[NT80]

15 hours ago, Jonnyeagle said:

NORMAN — Jake Roberts and Febechi Nwaiwu are at fall camp with a familiar face guiding every step at their new home.

The Oklahoma players are reunited with former North Texas head coach Seth Littrell, who is the Sooners’ first-year offensive coordinator. Both played for Littrell at the American Athletic Conference school before transferring to Norman this past off-season.

“He’s real laid-back,” Roberts told reporters after Saturday night’s practice. “If you guys have been around him, you’d know. A man of few words. He’s not going to say a ton, but his words are meaningful and he’s a real personable guy. Our relationship was really strong at UNT.”

Roberts, a senior tight end, played for the Mean Green between 2020-22 before transferring to Baylor for the 2023 campaign. Nwaiwu was an offensive lineman at UNT from 2021-23. Littrell was the North Texas head coach from 2016-22 before joining OU’s staff as an offensive analyst last year...

It’s been awesome. He’s the same old guy. We’re running a lot of the same stuff and it’s just good to be back with him and kind of just picked up right where we left off,” Roberts said.

While playing for the Mean Green, he had 43 catches for 541 yards and three touchdowns. In his one year at Baylor, he had 23 catches for 231 yards and a score.

He’s looking to add depth to the team this season.

Read more:  https://tulsaworld.com/sports/college/ou/ous-fall-camp-means-special-reunion-for-seth-littrell-and-two-former-unt-standouts/article_78f041f2-5774-11ef-a0cf-4791d7c5d789.html

O-who?

[peanuts104]

[UNT86]

They are people who played in a conference championship game and a bowl game before they transferred out.

Be nice when we do that again, but I'm not holding my breath for it this season.  Might need a new DC first.

 

[southsideguy]

they moved on we should do the same

[Cr1028]

6 hours ago, UNT86 said:

They are people who played in a conference championship game and a bowl game before they transferred out.

Be nice when we do that again, but I'm not holding my breath for it this season.  Might need a new DC first.

Yep. Two great Mean Green players for us and one pretty good coach too.

[Cr1028]

3 hours ago, southsideguy said:

they moved on we should do the same

Back to “sittingathomeforbowlseasonville”

Edited August 16 by Cr1028

[emmitt01]

16 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

Back to “sittingathomeforbowlseasonville”

Yeah, I miss the days when 5-8 or 4-6 could get you to a bowl game.  

[peanuts104]

5 hours ago, Cr1028 said:

and one pretty good mediocre coach too.

fixed it

[Cr1028]

12 minutes ago, peanuts104 said:

fixed it

How many North Texas coaches in our lifetime were less mediocre?

[peanuts104]

9 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

How many North Texas coaches in our lifetime were less mediocre?

How many had the resources and support Seth had?

[Cr1028]

5 hours ago, emmitt01 said:

Yeah, I miss the days when 5-8 or 4-6 could get you to a bowl game.  

And trips to conferences championship games. Remember that thing we played in the year before our current coach got here to help us get worse. 4-6 was covid so throw that out. But I am sure you are right, we are much better off losing to the FIUs of the world who we absolutely destroyed during the last two seasons of Seth Littrell. Dude is the only coach to have 2 9-win seasons here since Hayden Fry. Yes he didn’t get us over the top but he was not mediocre. If Eric Morris ever wins 9 games in a season or makes the conference championship game, then you might change my mind. Until then, as far as I am concerned, we have downgraded our coaching staff in football.

[Cr1028]

2 hours ago, peanuts104 said:

How many had the resources and support Seth had?

So that excuses their poor performance? Why did we even bother paying them then? Why do people talk so much crap on Todd Dodge if he wasn’t expected to win because “resources”? What is the current guy’s excuse?

[peanuts104]

2 minutes ago, Cr1028 said:

So that excuses their poor performance? Why did we even bother paying them then? Why do people talk so much crap on Todd Dodge if he wasn’t expected to win because “resources”? What is the current guy’s excuse?

Seth got paid a helluva lot more than Dodge did.

[Cr1028]

58 minutes ago, peanuts104 said:

Seth got paid a helluva lot more than Dodge did.

Yea and I bet the $$ per win is similar too without needing to take 12 years of inflation into consideration.