Oklahoma State to hire North Texas’ Eric Morris as new football coach

Oklahoma State has chosen North Texas Eric Morris as its new head football coach the school informed Tuesday Morris has been the head coach at North Texas since The plan went - his first season but now is - and contending for a conference championship and College Football Playoff berth The Mean Green are No in the AP Top Morris has a reputation for helping quarterbacks having coached developed or recruited Patrick Mahomes Baker Mayfield John Mateer Cam Ward Chandler Morris and Drew Mestemaker For a great number of reasons including the kind of person he is and the lasting relationships he builds with his players Coach Morris is the perfect fit as the next leader of Cowboy Football Oklahoma State athletic director Chad Weiberg explained The future is bright for OSU Football and I look forward to introducing him and his family to our association our former players and all Cowboy fans The hire is pending board approval North Texas leads the country in scoring offense and total offense this year and the organization has reached the AP Top for the first time since Mestemaker a redshirt freshman walk-on leads the FBS in yards passing North Texas commented in a news release that Morris will coach through this season On behalf of the University of North Texas I want to express our deep gratitude to Eric for everything he has done for Mean Green Football over the past three seasons North Texas athletic director Jared Mosley revealed Morris will step in for Mike Gundy who was fired in September during his st season Doug Meacham is - as the interim coach Oklahoma State is - heading into its season finale at home against Iowa State on Saturday Morris was head coach at Incarnate Word for four seasons then was an assistant at Washington State before becoming head coach at North Texas He was offensive coordinator at Texas Tech his alma mater from to and has been an assistant at Houston Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top throughout the season Sign up here and here AP News mobile app AP college football https apnews com hub ap-top- -college-football-poll and https apnews com hub college-football Source