UNT's Summer sales pitch

Harry · June 9, 2013

Tommy Perry wasnt expecting to be impressed last fall when he visited North Texas for the first time as an assistant coach at South Alabama, not after what he had been told about the school and its football program for pretty much his entire life.

Perry grew up in East Texas before going on to play at Texas A&M and heard about UNT during its days playing in a rapidly deteriorating Fouts Field as a member of the Southland Conference.

Coming out of high school, North Texas, to me, was so far down there compared to A&M, said Perry, who is entering his first season as an assistant at UNT. When I came back with South Alabama for the game last year and saw the new football stadium and the dorms right there, I could see its a great situation.

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