{"id":313590,"date":"2025-11-25T22:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313590\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T22:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T22:32:07","slug":"oklahoma-state-hiring-north-texas-head-coach-eric-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/313590\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma State hiring North Texas head coach Eric Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma State is hiring North Texas head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/eric-morris-42281\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Morris<\/a> as the Cowboys\u2019 next coach, sources told On3.<\/p>\n<p>In October, Oklahoma State athletic director Chad Weiberg said his goal was to \u201cbe in a position to move\u201d on replacing former coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/rivals\/coach\/mike-gundy-134562\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Gundy<\/a> by the end of the regular season. He did that on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sources tell On3 that a deal has been signed between Morris and Oklahoma State. Morris will remain with North Texas through the end of the season, including the playoffs. <\/p>\n<p>Morris, 40, has led the Mean Green to a school record 10-1 season. With two more wins \u2013 Saturday against Temple and in the American Conference title game \u2013 the Mean Green likely would earn a berth in the College Football Playoff as the highest-ranked Group of 5 conference champion.<\/p>\n<p>Morris is 21-15 in three years at UNT. He was also the head coach at Incarnate Word from 2019-21, compiling a 24-18 record.<\/p>\n<p>Morris, who played at Texas Tech under Mike Leach, was the offensive coordinator at Texas Tech and Washington State. In his career, he has coached quarterbacks\u00a0Baker Mayfield, Patrick Mahomes, Cam Ward, John Mateer and Chandler Morris (no relation).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe gives you confidence to go out there and be yourself and play the game the way you\u2019re supposed to play,\u201d Mahomes told ESPN about playing under Morris. \u201cAnd he\u2019ll change the offense for that. It\u2019s not surprising to me that he\u2019s had so much success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oklahoma State is hiring North Texas head coach Eric Morris as the Cowboys\u2019 next coach, sources told On3.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[161573,399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-313590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-eric-morris-04-shallowater","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-ncaafootball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}