Dan McCarney is a portrait in resilience

Harry · September 22, 2015

“I have a pretty good perspective when you talk about going from the worst in college football (Iowa was 0-11 when McCarney played there in 1973), to the top of the mountain, and everything in-between.”

He is in his fifth season at North Texas of Conference USA, and it isn’t easy. His team is 0-2, having suffered double-digit losses to SMU and Rice. As you would expect, he calls the fans, students and administration at North Texas “phenomenal.”

“I just want them to be proud that they brought me here as the head football coach.”

He took over a program that was 8-40 over the four years before he arrived. The Mean Green are 22-29 since, including a 9-4 season in 2013 capped by a win in the Heart of Dallas Bowl.

“The day-to-day stuff is really no different than it is whether you’re in a Power 5 conference or not,” McCarney said. “You’re trying to leave the office at night and make sure your program is better than when you got there in the morning. You’re trying to teach young people how to win on and off the field.”

To learn about resilience and positive attitude, North Texas’ players need only to look as far as their head coach.

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DeepGreen · September 22, 2015

Oh boy. This should go well.

Ben Gooding · September 22, 2015

UNTexas · September 22, 2015

Get your popcorn ready.

meangreen08 · September 22, 2015

“You’re trying to leave the office at night and make sure your program is better than when you got there in the morning. You’re trying to teach young people how to win on and off the field.”

How about teach our athletes the fundamentals then if that is the case? not seeing it one bit. its worse week in and week out.

untjim1995 · September 22, 2015

If Resilience = stubbornness, then yes, this is dead-on, especially offensively...which he is resilient in sticking to, despite nobody worth a damn that wants to come play QB here.