North Texas Athletics Hall of Fame
Andy Everest served as assistant head football coach under Hayden Fry from 1973 to 1978 before spending two years as North Texas State's athletic director from 1979 to 1981.
A member of the American Football Assistant Coaches Hall of Fame, Everest was instrumental in the football program's success during Fry's tenure in which the Mean Green posted a combined 40-23-1 record. In addition to NTSU, Everest was also an assistant coach at SMU, Stanford, Foothill College and the University of Utah. He was also the head coach for UC-Santa Barbara from 1970 to 1971.
Everest also spent time in the professional coaching ranks, working as an assistant with the NFL's New Orleans Saints, the San Antonio Force arena football team and three different clubs in the Italian professional league.
Among his accomplishments as NTSU's athletic director were the supervision of a fund-raising campaign and the coordination of a state-wide campaign for construction of a new facility that housed lockers, training and meeting quarters for both men's and women's athletics.