Seth Littrell has withdrawn from consideration for Kansas State job & is staying at North Texas, source told @WatchStadium. Great news for Mean Green — Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) December 7, 2018 Put away your pitchforks — unless you have bales of hay to move — and let us resume normal complaining. Seth Littrell has withdrawn… Read more »
Other reports: Nothing Happening. What It All Means There are a few things happening here. Let us go through all of them and we can process this together: 1. Seth Littrell’s Agent Is Working The Phones Littrell is good at coaching. His agent is good at finding Littrell gigs and more money. In fact, he… Read more »
Whenever Seth Littrell coached up his Mean Green Football team to a bowl, he was going to get some attention. Improving North Texas football in 2015 seemed impossible to the lay internet person, and with back-to-back 9-win seasons, a high-scoring offense, and three straight bowl-appearances Seth Littrell is on some short lists. This is unsurprising… Read more »
Forget the hot takes. Like most things, winning is the answer. Doing the little things in practice, recruiting, developing, and building relationships is how you win. This has all been documented and proven over and again. There is a bit of luck involved, and sometimes some coaches get more luck than others and people rate… Read more »
Kevin Sherrington wrote a column praising North Texas the other day. He touched on the usual, including the reasons for the way things were. Too many reasons to cram into such a small space, but you could start with the fact that it’s never been affiliated with a major conference, and the facilities were modest,… Read more »
Mac Engel talked with UNT President Smastresk about the hire. The juicy bit was this part: “I’m not going to throw (former UNT athletic director Rick Villarreal) under the bus on this because he wasn’t opposed to it,” UNT President Neal Smatresk said in a phone interview. “TCU was on fire then, and still is…. Read more »
Sports fans in the DFW area mostly listen to the Ticket, but Jim Rome is still a national radio legend. Today on the Jim Rome Show, head coach Seth Littrell talked about Mason Fine, Barry Switzer, and growing the program in Denton. Here is a bit of that conversation.
This is a big game. These money games are usually perfunctory for Mean Green fans. While there may be some hope at the start, the goals usually are to remain healthy and come out looking impressive to friends. The coaches usually say the right things, but privately dislike the depressing odds. Every once in a… Read more »
North Texas beat Incarnate Word 58-16 on Saturday Night in front of a paltry crowd that mostly was concerned with staying warm and dry. There is some kind of lesson there about remembering that what happened last week was no accomplishment worth dwelling on. SMU has proved to be a bad team, and in front… Read more »
Seth Littrell held his weekly press conference and was pretty excited about the situation (for him). He praised the atmosphere and called it one of the better ones he’s seen across the league. People have called NT a sleeping giant — most famously Dan McCarney saying Why Not North Texas? back in his initial press… Read more »
