Dell Morgan

Head coach, Texas Tech, 1946 to 1950

College career31-24

Program liftNo. 569tied · of 1,290 tenures since 1937

Now

Career arc

Stats

Big games

The big-game ledger

How he does in the games that matter most — rivalry record, performance broken out by real opponent tier, one-score games, and his toughest historical matchup.

2-7 against his rivals. Winless in 5 tries against Jess Neely.

Rivalry record

2-7

22.2% · 3 rivals

One-score games

11-4

73.3% · margin ≤8

Rivalry ledger

Baylor1-420%

Texas0-30%

Oklahoma State1-0100%

The toughest matchupNemesis

vs. Jess Neely0-5

5 meetings, 1946–1950

’46 L’47 L’48 L’49 L’50 L

Performance by opponent class

Power Program

4-8 33.3%

National Program

11-12 47.8%

Regional Program

13-2 86.7%

Building the roster

Two numbers on how he actually stocks a roster, from signing day to draft day.

1Roster ownership
2The NFL pipeline

Roster ownership

This coach's entire tenure (1946-1950) predates 2021, when transfer-portal tracking begins in this database. Portal usage cannot be measured for this tenure at all -- this is not the same as '0% portal'.

“His own” means the player arrived while he was head coach; “inherited” means a predecessor brought him in.

The NFL pipeline

at least2Drafted

players drafted into the NFL off his teams here (a floor — see the note below). None can be traced to who brought them in — there’s no roster record for these players here.

At least 2 — his 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950 seasons predate the modern 7-round draft, so this table’s pre-1994 pick counts are a floor, not a full count, for those seasons.

0 roster-verified · 2 estimated

Most recent picks first

Year	Pick	Player	Pos	NFL team	Note
1949	R5.39				Estimated
1949	R6.52				Estimated

A pick counts toward his tenure when the player’s final college season was one he coached, a checkable rule rather than a claim about who developed the player. A blank note means the player is on a verified roster and arrived on his watch. “Estimated” means no roster record, so the final season is assumed to be the year before the draft.