Hlas: McCarney goes from savior to unemployed in two years

[Harry]

IOWA CITY — The coach who led North Texas’ football team against Iowa three weeks ago got fired Saturday night.

The coach who was supposed to lead Maryland’s team against the Hawkeyes two weeks from now got fired Sunday afternoon.

This is major-college football today. Coaches of all teams stress to their players to never quit, to see things through. But those same coaches leave their schools for other jobs in mid-contract.

Two years ago, the Mean Green won nine games and a bowl. But they couldn’t compete at Iowa three weeks ago in a 62-16 loss, and looked like FBS bottom-feeders.

“We had it rolling and couldn’t sustain it,” he told the Denton Record-Chronicle. “That is really hard to swallow.”

So North Texas, which hadn’t won more than three games in the six seasons before McCarney’s hiring there, wants to start over again. It has a 5-year-old, $78 million stadium. It has 37,000 students. It wants to be somebody, and schools at so many places feel they need to be good at football to be somebody.

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Edited October 14, 2015 by Harry

[letsgiveacheer]

Pulitzer Prize worthy.