The Tuesday before the final week of the regular season felt like a surprising time for a sitting coach to be announced as taking another job.
But, as detailed by Oklahoma State athletic director Chad Weiberg in a chat with Robert Allen on the radio Wednesday morning, it was Eric Morris’ call to make the early announcement and get out in front of any rumors that could linger throughout his remaining days in Denton.
“It becomes very difficult, especially in this day and age to keep it quiet,” Weiberg told RA. “And once it became pretty evident that it was picking up some significant steam nationally, as well as locally, Coach Morris just made the decision that, ‘Look, I’d rather at this point just be up front and honest with my team, address it with them,’ which is much better than trying to get to the weekend with all the speculation and rumors and all that.