The most important recruiting for new North Texas coach Neal Brown is trying to retain the players that have been part of the school's first 11-win season, and still have a bowl game to play after just missing out on the College Football Playoff.

Brown met with the team before being formally introduced as coach for the No. 23 Mean Green (11-2) on Monday, a week after being announced as the successor to Oklahoma State-bound Eric Morris. Neither will coach North Texas in the New Mexico Bowl against San Diego State on Dec. 27.

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"My approach on this is this 2025 season is not done," Brown said. "So that's their team, I'm not part of that yet. All I want to do is I want to be around them. And my main goal with those players right now is building

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