ROGERS -- Chad Morris is the Arkansas Razorbacks' football coach, but he made it clear Thursday as the keynote speaker at the Mercy Coaching Summit he's never forgotten his high school roots.
"I am a high school football coach," Morris told a roomful of high school coaches at the John Q. Hammons Convention Center while emphasizing the present tense. "That's what I am. I take an extreme amount of great pride in saying that."
For 16 seasons Morris was a high school head football coach in Texas at five different stops. He broke into college coaching as Tulsa's offensive coordinator 2010, then had the same position at Clemson from 2011-14 before becoming SMU's coach for three seasons.