North Texas will play Friday at Tulane under future-former head coach Eric Morris for the right to play one or more games under its future-former head coach in the College Football Playoff, but the search to find Morris’s replacement is well underway.
Former Troy and West Virginia head coach Neal Brown was the initial favorite when the job opened last Tuesday, and remains so today. The Denton Record-Chronicle wrote Sunday that North Texas is intrigued by Brown’s head coaching experience up and down the proverbial ladder in FBS. He went 35-16 with a Sun Belt title and a division championship and a division championship from 2015-18 at Troy, and then 37-35 from 2019-24 at West Virginia. Brown has spent the 2025 campaign as a special assistant to Steve Sarkisian at Texas. Brown regularly played in the Lone Star State while at West Virginia and coached wide receivers at Texas Tech on Tommy Tuberville’s staff (although that was more than a dozen years ago now.)
Multiple sources tell FootballScoop that the North Texas search is targeted on candidates with head coaching experience, including one previously-unreported candidate. Sources tell FootballScoop that Drew Turner of CSA Search is handling the process for the Mean Green, and that Turner is also handling Tulane’s search for Jon Sumrall’s replacement.
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