The University of North Texas is bracing for a fight, not on the field, but in the high-stakes world of coaching retention. With Arkansas zeroing in on Eric Morris as one of its top candidates to replace Sam Pittman, powerful UNT boosters have launched an aggressive fundraising push to keep their rising star in Denton.
Veteran North Texas beat reporter Brett Vito, who has covered the program for more than 25 years, revealed that multiple influential boosters have gone on the record confirming their efforts to fortify the program’s financial defenses. Their target? Accumulating enough donor firepower to fend off interest from two major programs: Oklahoma State and Arkansas.