aren't worried about the future yet
DENTON, Texas -- North Texas coach Eric Morris (played and coached for Mike Leach) -- the 40-year-old Air Raid virtuoso who launched Baker Mayfield, unleashed Patrick Mahomes and found Cam Ward -- likes a process.
This fall, he has catapulted No. 22 North Texas into the CFP mix with the nation's No. 1 scoring offense (45.3 points per game) and emerged as a fashionable name in a scorching coaching cycle with help from his latest and most absurd discovery to date: redshirt freshman quarterback Drew Mestemaker.
Mestemaker hadn't started a game at quarterback since his freshman year of high school ...Mestemaker ranks fifth nationally in passing yards (3,000) and seventh in touchdowns (23), lifting the 9-1 Mean Green into the AP Top 25 for the first time in program history with more completions of 20-plus yards than all but two other FBS passers.
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DENTON, Texas -- North Texas coach Eric Morris (played and coached for Mike Leach) -- the 40-year-old Air Raid virtuoso who launched Baker Mayfield, unleashed Patrick Mahomes and found Cam Ward -- likes a process.
This fall, he has catapulted No. 22 North Texas into the CFP mix with the nation's No. 1 scoring offense (45.3 points per game) and emerged as a fashionable name in a scorching coaching cycle with help from his latest and most absurd discovery to date: redshirt freshman quarterback Drew Mestemaker.
Mestemaker hadn't started a game at quarterback since his freshman year of high school ...Mestemaker ranks fifth nationally in passing yards (3,000) and seventh in touchdowns (23), lifting the 9-1 Mean Green into the AP Top 25 for the first time in program history with more completions of 20-plus yards than all but two other FBS passers.
Portal? Coaching carousel? North Texas' QB whisperer and his latest protégé aren't worried
Eric Morris has tutored QBs from Patrick Mahomes to Cam Ward and John Mateer. How he mentors them is key to their successes and his.
