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North Texas Looks To Establish New Standard
DENTON, Texas – The Heart of Dallas Bowl trophy sits in North Texas coach Dan McCarney's office on a coffee table near the door. It's impossible to miss. All two-plus feet of it tall, it takes up most of the table's surface.

Its prominent location isn't on accident either. North Texas' 36-14 win over UNLV on January 1 was the program's third bowl win. When something happens for just the third time in 100 years, you get the right to soak it all in.

The win gave North Texas its first nine-win season since 2003 and solidified the program's first winning season since 2004, a season that seems much further away than 10 years ago for North Texas fans.

"We set a goal last January ... and all we said was 'hit six' (wins). But what the hell is that, hit six?" McCarney told Yahoo Sports. "We said this, let's hit six, and we talked to our football team about it. Frank Winter, my strength and conditioning coach and I were the two that really kind of came up with it."

"If we can hit six, which means you're bowl eligible in Conference USA, anything after that is going to be gravy and it's going to be really, really good gravy."

It must have tasted like mom's homemade Thanksgiving gravy.

2013 was McCarney's third season at North Texas. When he was hired at the school before the 2011 season, the past six seasons had produced 13 wins. Total.

After winning five and four games respectively in his first two seasons, McCarney's 14th win at the school was, coincidentally, also the Mean Green's sixth win of the season. It came on Halloween against Rice. The original goal was accomplished before the calendar had flipped to November.

To drive home the goal of reaching a bowl game, McCarney and members of his staff who had been to bowl games before brought all their swag to the football complex after a session of two-a-days in August. With a roster full of players who hadn't gone to a bowl, he wanted them to see some of the incentives up-close.

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04-17-2014 03:17 PM
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