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UNT president Lane Rawlins announced today that he is retiring.


While Rawlins was only around a short time — and he will stay on for a
few more months — his impact on UNT’s athletic program was pretty
significant.


There were several people who played a role in helping UNT get out of
the Sun Belt and into Conference USA, and there is little doubt Rawlins
was one of them. He helped found C-USA in 1995 when he was at Memphis
and had the connections in the league that helped UNT make its case that
it belonged, especially after SMU left.


He also played a role in bringing in Dan McCarney as UNT’s football
coach. UNT contracted consultant Chuck Neinas to study the overall
athletic program and then brought him back to help conduct a search for a
new coach after UNT finally got rid of Todd Dodge. McCarney has already
won more games in two years than UNT won in the previous four years
combined.


UNT opened Apogee Stadium during his watch and moved closer to bringing a baseball program back to UNT.

Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2013/03/thoughts-on-the-departure-of-lane-rawlins.html/




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