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Courtesy: University of North Texas Release: 01/11/2007 |
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Spencer Leftwich is in his third year of return duty as offensive line coach for the Mean Green. Lefwich inherited a very young offensive line in 2007 and has molded the unit into one of the strongest and most experienced in the Sun Belt Conference headed into 2009. Upon his arrival in 2007, Lefwich had only two returning offensive linemen with any career starts to their credit. Heading into 2009, Leftwich will have eight offensive linemen who have started multiple games returning. Leftwich has done an exceptional job of building depth, as seven returning offensive linemen have started at least 11 games. Over the past two years, the offensive line has helped the Mean Green offense to unprecedented statistical accomplishment. In 2007 Leftwich developed four offensive linemen who had never played a college game into fulltime starters and North Texas broke the school single-season record for total offense and passing offense. Because of injuries in 2008, he had to cultivate three new linemen and by the end of the season had two freshmen, two sophomores and one junior leading the attack in the trenches. Prior to his return to North Texas, Leftwich spent four years at Tulsa, where he took Jeff Perrett (2006), Jesse Stoneham (2005), Derek Warehime (2004) and Austin Chadwick (2003) to all-conference first-team honors. Chadwick’s honor in 2003 was the first time since 1998 that a Tulsa offensive lineman had been named all-conference. In his first term at North Texas, he had at least one lineman earn all-conference honors in eight of his nine years, including Phillip Armour pulling in the honor in three consecutive seasons. In 2002, his line helped open the holes for a rushing attack that finished 38th in the country. When he originally arrived in Denton in 1994, he saw the Mean Green offense set a school record for offense with 4,670 yards and capture the Southland Conference title. That record was broken this year when his offensive line helped the team post 4,901 yards of offense. Leftwich and his wife LaTonne have three sons, Mack Hays, Cutter, and Gage. |
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