Taggart says players’ focus is North Texas, not Bowen

[Harry]

WKU players will be looking across the field at one of their old coaches when they take on North Texas on Saturday.

Mean Green defensive coordinator Clint Bowen is in his first season with North Texas after spending the 2010 season in the same position with the Toppers.

Head Coach Willie Taggart said his players’ motivation for the North Texas game will come from their chance at continuing a march for the Sun Belt Conference championship, not from trying to prove anything to a former assistant.

“Our football team is not playing Coach Bowen. We’re playing North Texas,” Taggart said. “He left to go to North Texas, and that’s fine. Everybody has their reasons for doing things. 

“And we like our players, and we like our university here. Our guys will be fired up about North Texas and getting to (win) No. 6.”

Under the watch of Bowen, a former Kansas assistant, the Topper defense improved from a No. 118 national ranking in 2009 to a No. 68 ranking in 2010.

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UNT 34

WKU 20

[UNT Mean Green]

Can we kick off yet? Someone said it earlier...this is going to be a very fun, chippy ballgame.