Morris Adds Five more to Football Staff

[Jonnyeagle]

DENTON, Texas – North Texas head football coach Eric Morris has announced the addition of five more members of his inaugural coaching staff on Thursday.

Joining Morris’ staff are Matt Caponi (Defensive Coordinator/Corners), Jordan Davis (Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers), Bryan Kegans (Head Strength & Conditioning Coach), Colby Kratch (Assistant Coach/Linebackers) and Justin Owens (Director of Recruiting).

A 17-year coaching veteran, Caponi spent the last four seasons mentoring the cornerbacks at Iowa State. In that time, he played a huge role in ISU’s success, as the Cyclones made three bowl games and ranked in the top-three in the league in scoring defense every season of his tenure.  The Cyclones finished No. 6 nationally (285.6 ypg) in total defense in 2022.

Caponi is a Mount Union (2005) graduate and has coaching experience at West Virginia, Arizona and Pitt at the FBS level. He was the defensive coordinator at Washington & Jefferson for three years from 2008-11.

A native of Arlington, Davis spent the last seven seasons coaching under Morris at Texas Tech, UIW and Washington State. He played a key role on the Incarnate Word staff as Assistant Head Coach and Wide Receivers coach and was an analyst at Wazzu in 2022.

Davis graduated from Texas Tech in 2014, where he was a three-year football letter winner prior to becoming a graduate assistant in 2016.

Kegans was on the football sports performance staff at USC in 2022 following four seasons at Oklahoma (2018-21), where he was assistant director of sports performance/director of sport science. He was also a strength and conditioning coach at Texas (2013) and TWU (2011-13). The Stephenville native has high school experience at Fulshear and Denton Guyer.

He was an offensive lineman at Texas Tech from 2002-05 and earned his degree in 2005.

Kratch has spent the last six seasons on staff at Iowa State, most recently as assistant director of player personnel for the last five seasons. He was a graduate assistant on defense in 2017. During his time in Ames, he helped ISU to five bowl games and the Cyclones became one of the Big 12’s top defenses. Iowa State’s last five recruiting classes were rated in the Top 50 according to 247Sports, including the 2022 group which is considered the best recruiting class in school history. 

He also spent two years as a graduate assistant at Michigan State following a two-year playing career at Toledo. He graduated from Toledo in 2013.

Owens, also known as ‘Coach O’, is a longtime Dallas-Fort Worth high school coach. He served as running backs coach, special teams coordinator and recruiting coordinator at Ferris High School for the past two years, and has more than 15 years of high school coaching and evaluation experience in the area.

He is also known for hosting exposure camps around the state of Texas for high school student-athletes where he helped garner exposure for thousands of young players. A Dallas native, Owens played at West Texas A&M and graduated in 2004.

The newest hires come following the previous announcement of Sean Brophy (Quarterbacks), Patrick Cobbs (Running backs), Chris Gilbert (Assistant Head Coach/Tight Ends), Rolando Surita (Chief of Staff/Assistant AD) and Drew Svoboda (Associate Head Coach/Special Teams Coordinator).

Additional names will be announced in the coming days.

[Greenrex]

Article citation? Just curious.

[Jonnyeagle]

31 minutes ago, Greenrex said:

Article citation? Just curious.

It came into my email from the AD