This. We need to win consistently and we need continuity. Since I've been following, nothing about the UNT athletic program ever transcends a class of players or one coach and sustains into the next set of players or coaches. We did that to ourselves by knee-jerking our coaching hires with a 180 degree opposite coach (or schematic philosophy) every time we ran someone off. We cleared out long-time, loyal, assistants and others who would stick with UNT. I didn't much care for the Eric Morris hire when it was announced. However, this is the first time in 30 years that the AD has actually given us a chance to carry forward momentum from one staff to the next and build some continuity...and more importantly, an identity. Now we need Morris to continue to win. And if he doesn't, keep guys like Pat Cobbs around, and any others like him who just love the school, want to be here and are doing a good job. As others have said, we absolutely need alums who bleed green to be the backbone of what we do. We can't allow outsiders to come in and wipe out everything to start from zero with "their people". There has to be a balance.
Mosely did the same thing by making sure we kept Hodge around when Mac left. It's a really positive sign that this AD understands what it takes to build a program. Something we've never actually done in the almost 30 years I've followed.
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