Former ISU and current North Texas football coach Dan McCarney has been hospitalized and is being treated for a stroke, according to a source close to the family.

McCarney was admitted to a Dallas-area hospital Sunday, according to the source, who also confirmed that the former Cyclone coach is in the intensive care unit of the hospital and is listed in stable condition.

The source said a neurologist checked McCarney’s vitals, memory and speech Monday morning and he did “well.”

North Texas Director of Athletics Rick Villarreal released a statement Monday but did not confirm McCarney had suffered a stroke in that statement.

“[Sunday] afternoon after returning from Miami, I spoke with Margy McCarney who said that her husband, Dan, had experienced some medical difficulties significant enough that he was taken to the hospital,” Villarreal said in the statement. “The details that we know at this time are that he was admitted and is currently undergoing a battery of tests and will continue to be under observation.

“The exact cause and nature of the symptoms of his illness are not immediately known by [the North Texas athletics department] at this time,” Villarreal said. “The family has asked until a complete diagnosis and a course of treatment is established that their privacy be respected. We can’t comment any further at this time and will release information as it becomes available and approved by the family.”

ISU women’s basketball coach Bill Fennelly first revealed McCarney had suffered a stroke in a tweet, which read, “Please keep Dan McCarney in your thoughts and prayers after a recent stroke-no better people than he and his wife Margy!” In his weekly news conference, Fennelly declined to comment further on his tweet, saying he wanted to respect the privacy of McCarney and his family.

“We don’t know much,” Fennelly said. “We know he’s got a little health issue. It’s kind of a family matter for them, so I think we’re going to leave it at that.”

McCarney coached at Iowa State from 1995 to 2006. During that time, he led Cyclone teams to five bowl games, including the program’s first bowl win in the 2000 Insight.com Bowl.

Since leaving Iowa State, McCarney served as the defensive line coach at South Florida in 2007, then held the same position at Florida from 2008-10 before becoming head coach at North Texas in 2011.

McCarney has always been known as a “tough” individual, and the source told the Daily that he is already “asking when he can go back to work.”

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