Kansas Football: Potential head coach candidates to replace David Beaty
By John McCarty
POTENTIAL HEAD COACH REPLACEMENTS
Seth Litrell (North Texas)
Seth Litrell is overseeing the North Texas program and has done quite a job with the Mean Green since taking over a 1-11 program in 2015. Since that point, North Texas has a 16-13 record.
Litrell is a native of the Midwest and his first coaching job was at, you guessed it, the University of Kansas, which is why he should be on this list. Litrell spent time as a position coach with Texas Tech, Arizona, Indiana and North Carolina as the Assistant Head Coach.
Litrell not only has experience as a head coach, but has that experience in Texas and recruited that area often for the various programs he’s coached at. That will be important for whomever takes over the Jayhawk job in 2019.
He also, at least at North Texas, runs an offense that while maybe not exactly the same as what KU does now, which could allow for an easier transition from one regime to another.
Is Litrell ready to be a head coach at a Big 12 level school? He’s young, having just turned 40 with only two years of head coaching experience, so if the Jayhawks want a coach such like this, they will may have to move on a guy a year or two earlier then where other programs would want to make that move to beat other schools to the hire.
Also, who’s to say Seth Litrell would even be interested in the job?