that there is so much talk about universities outside of San Antonio and UTSA gets no play. Its a division I school and the very people that diss it about being small time dont even talk about it or mention it. AND, these very same people are born here and never even set foot on some of these other universities campuses.
All Im saying is dont DISS UTSA about being commuter and small time, IF you dont support it AND if you have never graduated from another university that you claim........thats BULL if you ask me.
Have a great day.
I have a ton of relatives that wear UT and A&M gear and have never even set foot on the damn campus.......how can you claim that??? Also, who gives a about USC or Notre Dame since those schools arent even in Texas. I thought this was Spurstalk?? Not Cali or Michigan talk?
Sorry to vent, but I hate bandwagon people who claim FLORIDA as their school and they have never left Texas.......
Cant yall support your local Div I school even though it not where you want it to be yet???
this is a USC and A&M forum...sorry bra.
No journalism school, therefore no support from me.
No Arenaball team. Austin has one.
No Triple-A baseball team. Austin (well, Round Rock) has one.
No D-1 football team. Well, Austin certainly has one of those.
Hockey? OK, but that's like 4,000 fans a game...but still, more than three times what UTSA basketball averages at home.
There's as many undergrads at UTSA as Tech. Or Texas State, for that matter. And more than OU has enrolled.
And yet no football team, despite being in a huge town that hosts a bowl game and a HS All-American game. Obviously there's room for a team just based on the sheer enrollment and citywide population, but there's some sort of huge sports apathy in San Antonio toward any team besides the Spurs. Of course, SA has enough Dallas in her to out and show up en masse to hosted championship-caliber sporting events, but supporting any other team just doesn't happen there.
I believe that the lack of support for anything behind one of the most successful NBA franchises in history is part of the reason the NFL hasn't made its way there yet. You can scream and cuss about only wanting to support a winner, but there's 30 other cities all with NFL teams that want that every year. The Houston Texans are 24-56 in their five years in the NFL. There's no way San Antonio is selling out an 80K stadium with a 2-7 home team facing a 3-6 opponent. Even when the only other game in town is the NBA.
D-1's a harder sell. They won't be able to beat the Aggies or the Longhorns of the world, and nobody cares about a gritty win over Northwestern State when people can watch either A&M or Texas play major college ball in HD on their couches.
The U Runs This Place!!!!!!!!!!!!! Usc And A&m
wait for it...its not long now.
Hey! SA had the Force! (God, were they horrible!)No Arenaball team. Austin has one.
Oh...and....uh...where is Austin's WNBA team? Huh?
As someone who was born and raised in SA and lived there for 34 years, I love San Antonio. It has a lot of wonderful things about it. However, when it comes to sports, J-6 is pretty dead on. I do know that there have been talks about getting an Arenaball team for the ATT and I think that an Triple A team would work here. D-1 football maybe...you have so many UT and A&M fans and alumni here that maybe because its football they might go but unsure. The sad thing is I think fans would embrace these sports however we are not blessed with the best leadership in the people that could make all this happen. UTSA has no one but itself to blame for their lack of success. For years Bobby Thompson was the AD and didn't do to help the school. Lynn Hickey is better but she had to spend so many years cleaning up Thompson's mess. Like it or not, UTSA is a commuter school....can they change that perception? Yes. Have they? No.
I apologize everyone for going off yesterday. I just dont get it. San Antonio is the 7th largest city in the US......and our OWN population treats it like Seguin. We have a D1 school right here in our own backyard and it gets "0" run. I mean there is almost 29K students out there......the 5th largest school in Texas.
I think UTSA should change its name to University of San Antonio........grab its own iden y and get from under UTs nutsack.
Im done.......everyone have a great day and weekend.
FIESTA TIME!!!
There are other medium-size cities without a major D-1 sports presence.
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Sacramento
you do realize there are major benefits to being a satellite school of a major university, don't you?
Yes I do.....but, sometimes I think it harms a universities individual iden y. I mean San Antonio is twice as big as Austin, yet UTSA is like the lil red headed stepchild of UT. No seriously it is......really.
Keep in mind UT-Austin has 50,000 students while UTSA has half that number.
Yep....but it took UT 100yrs to reach 50K......UTSA is at almost 30K in 36yrs.....doesnt mean much, but UTSA is a major college any way you look at it. At least population wise. Many colleges have only 8-10K students. That MUST mean something???
UTSA needs something that sets it apart from Austin and A&M and the rest of the BCS-level DIA schools in Texas. Whether that's academics, basketball, baseball, they need something to "put them on the map" so to say.
They had the baseball team going pretty well when Jimmy Shankle was there in the mid-90s. But he had other interests and Mickey wasn't able to keep it going.
I agree 200%
Actually the baseball team is pretty dayum good!
I admit that I haven't followed them since a couple of rough years not too long ago.
Isn't UT-Austin slightly more selective in its admissions than UTSA?
Yes.......that is true. But WTF does that have to do with starting a football program???
Also, Isnt Stanford and Duke more selective than UT???
hmm....pretty intersting perspective and well thought out. im surprised mookie hasnt made any comments yet
as for me...well if ut or utsa had the #1 aeronautical school inthe country theni would have gone there. i would have even considered going to a&m if they had a good program, but probably not. so even thoug i would hvae like to go to austin, it wasnt in my cards
and what baout the dad from the movie "Rudy"? is he not allowed to like ND bc he was too poor,dumb or just never had the chance to go to college?
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