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Utsa is lucky to be in football hungry texas in the right place with the alamodome at the right time
Unlucky though that the Power 5 are going to leave the others out.
Deserves its own thread.
Apparently USA Today (Myerberg himself?) was with Hickey and the team prior to the Houston game. He wrote a great piece chronicling the journey up to and after that UH game. The story has been told a bunch of times but there's a lot of great mini-stories and quotes from the players/coaches. Worth the read. If only the local media showed us this kind of love...how could the city resist embracing the program?
Utsa is lucky to be in football hungry texas in the right place with the alamodome at the right time
Unlucky though that the Power 5 are going to leave the others out.
Don't count out South Alabama. They're making a run at the Sun Belt crown and are 1-1 against UTSA.
But UTSA has the edge over my Jags at this time. I wonder if the two teams can meet in a bowl this season to break the 1-1 tie.
USA is doing good although yall have a year or two on us, no? Georgia State is the one that really fell off a cliff. Don't know wtf happened to them.
Hopefully it won't be this year since it would mean we didn't win CUSA. I'm sure we'll play in a bowl game pretty soon though--wouldn't be opposed to another series either.
Coker is looking pretty old, how much longer is UTSA looking to keep him around? BTW it was pretty smart of them to go after an old coach like him, no P5 school is going to to try and steal him so they can keep him long enough to really get a strong foundation with him.
BTW when it comes to the P5 conferences, they are going to figure out that if you can't own the entire state of Texas you can get small portions by taking some of the smaller schools like UTSA, UH, TSU, and SMU. If it were me and I wanted into break into the Texas market I'd take some of those schools then you can claim the bigger cities at lease. This is especially true if the P5 conferences are all going to go to 16 teams which some have predicted.
No startup program hasn't gotten the kind of interest from the national print media than UTSA has gotten. They've had original pieces written about the program in the New York Times as well.
They have a great chance of getting the G5 bid to one of the New Year's Six Bowl which would be an amazing accomplishment.
They just extended him through 2018. He probably retires after that.
That's my glass half-full thinking as well. Build the program into a dominant G5 program, average upwards of 40k at the Dome and with the 7th largest city in the country behind you hope a Power conference give you a shot. It's a longshot but so was reaching the level they're at in just four years.
I'd probably cry if that happened tbh.
They will definitely get a bid to the AAC. Question will be the Big 12. That's the only P5 conference they will get a shot. In fact, alot of the AAC teams will be shooting for that including UH, SMU, and even Tulane which can bring the New Orleans market (but I think that ship sailed years ago when they stopped trying after 1998).
Really difficult seeing UTSA as a fit in any existing P5 conference outside the big 12. Houston seems like an easier sell since it achieved tier one. And i really don't see the mothership inviting UTSA to compete directly with it.
It's such a mess if the P5 want to make that split permanent, and college football is such a perversion of "amateur" sport I won't shed a tear if UTSA is left out. Looks like they would have plenty of good company in a G5 that could have its own playoffs, etc.
Hickey failed so badly with BBall she's damn right when she said luck.
I really don't like the woman.
Really a sour sport from what I have seen.
Coker has done a of a job.
What have you seen that makes you say that?
Huh? Sour sport? Where have you heard this? I think she's done a great job. basketball is a disaster for many reasons, but the biggest is probably our b-ball facilities. They are completely non-compe ive with what we're aspiring to be.
Don't we have our only NCAA tourney win under Hickey as well? The bball program is a mess right now but it hasn't always been as bad during her tenure. Our chicken coop arena really puts her at a disadvantage.
Injuries completely ruined what was going to be a dicey transition for bball at best.
You take away the best player from any team at this level and the season is pretty much going to be a disaster.
As mentioned, facilities are going to hold bball back until some kind of 7-10k arena is built in Park West. They're still going to be relying on a bunch of juco transfers rather than picking up and developing most of their team from their start.
My niece playing against a team her daughter was on Boerne HS.
Watched the Boerne coach full court press up in 2nd half when it was like 68- single digits.
Let the a-hole of a coach know its time to call the dogs off. Think he coaches at Clark girls now.
Watched the big smile on her face and actually talked with her after the game.
Did not like her answer about pressing a bad small HS team that had no PG.
Game ended up like 90-small number.
Saw her later at another game at UTSA sitting with coaches I know. Really don't remember if this was a UTSA game.
She remembered me, I remembered her, and the coaches we both knew were astounded that we had a very unfriendly reacquaintance. I asked her if she had ever rolled a cripple down the UTSA stairs or some such statement. She was not happy. I told the coaches about the aforementioned incident and they were very surprised. I played for one of the other coaches and the others knew me because I played against them. Good people, good coaches. Conflict otherwise.
I really want UTSA to be successful. But this southern baptist sporting lady is not my favorite. I remember her daughter was a really good sport and had some sort of heart condition I believe. Can't remember it all.
lol big time high school sports
Sorry man, that's just not the thing I would use the "rolling a cripple" line over.
Has UTSA stopped with the revolving door faculty?
That was/is a pitiful thing.
Well I did and I would do it again.
Exactly with the bigtime HS sports, that's the whole point.
These are little kids, not college scholarship athletes.
No.
It was her grandma.
I asked her if she had tried pushing her grandma down the steps...
Is that worse?
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Jes sayin.
I can see getting mad at the moment when family is involved, but that sounds like an SBMesque grudge there.
Thats weak. If angry parents are yelling at my kid bc the coach is running up the score I'm gonna stand up for my kid's team regardless of whether the coach is wrong--it's human nature.
That's not what I posted fool.
I would never yell at a kid doing exactly what the coach ordered.
Read it again.
And I guess you answered my question about the revolving door professors at UTSA.
They produced a student like you.
Its her daughter's team regardless. She'll try to downplay it just like most other involved parents would. She's great at her job and anybody without a grade school-esque grudge realizes that.
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