 The North Texas Mean Green hired Dodge on December 12, 2006 as the new head football coach of the football team, replacing former coach Darrell Dickey, who was fired on November 8 after going 2–9 in 2005 and 3–9 in 2006.During his first season as head coach, UNT went 2-10.Dodge's spread offense averaged 408.4 total yards and 24.8 points per game while giving up 39 sacks.