The idea that one day he would take over for the most successful coach he had worked with took a while to sink in with Omar Morales.
After Morales and Randy Waldrum met more than a decade ago, Waldrum invited Morales – then a graduate assistant at West Texas A&M – to work summer camps at Notre Dame.
Those invitations continued through the end of Waldrum’s tenure at the school he led to nearly 300 wins and two NCAA championships in 15 seasons. The same year Waldrum became the first head coach in Dash history, Morales got his first head coaching job at Division II Eastern New Mexico.