Your home for UTSA football in San Antonio is...

[daypart]

92.5 The Patriot

PBP voice will be Andy Everett.

Coach's show will be on KTKR Ticket 760.

CC won the bidding war. Hope UTSA wasn't expecting big numbers for these games.

 

[1st of 5]

Who really cares? It is fitting for the games to be aired on a low powered station which no one can hear. Besides, UTSA football is classified in those smaller, rural, special needs middle school collegiate football leagues. Don't expect to see UTSA to be stomped by the UT Longhorns, SMU, Texas Tech, Rice, Baylor or Oklahoma. They will play against small community colleges and Mexican high schools that you've never heard of. UTSA will NEVER be allowed to compete or become a student/fiscal drain for that big burnt orange sponge in Austin. It was true 30 years ago and its still true now. UTSA seems to have $$$ to waste on a football program that the few fans will rapidly lose interest in, but never has any $$$ to offer the same curriculum as UT Austin.

 

[fredcantu]

The conference and UTSA Football are supported by ticket sales and corporate sponsors.

http://www.goutsa.com/

No community colleges or Mexican high schools on their schedule.

BTW-- Mexico doesn't have high schools. IIRC, They are all college prep schools although some do play "Futbol Americano."

 

[mmnassour]

Uh, yea. It's an open secret here in Austin that the UT System intends for UTSA to be the state's next Tier 1 university. Not Tech, not Houston, yes, UTSA.

Laugh if you will, but give it 10 years. People are going to be very, very surprised. And football is going to be a big part of it.

 

[gabigley1]

What happened to UT at Arlington and UT at Dallas?

 

[CTHank]

What happened to UT at Arlington and UT at Dallas?

They're too far away from Austin to be of any real help or importance to the UT system, they might as well be OU at Arlington or OU at Dallas. UTSA on the other hand is just down the road.

 

[mmnassour]

UTA and UTD are not really poised for expansion. The good thing about UTSA is that it serves the entire area south of San Antonio. That's a big deal for the state and university officials who want to see more Hispanics in the UT system. No kidding...UTSA is about to become a major institution.

 

[daypart]

Don't expect to see UTSA to be stomped by the UT Longhorns, SMU, Texas Tech, Rice, Baylor or Oklahoma. They will play against small community colleges and Mexican high schools that you've never heard of.

UTSA will play its first season in what used to be called Division II and move up to Division I in its second year, along with Texas State, to join the Mountain West conference. (The Mountain West conference is the current home of a little school with a football program you might have heard of... Boise State.)

 

[Kent]

Not to mention that I lived in Ft. Worth and worked in Arlington 15 years ago (I left 15 years ago this weekend, in fact), and UT Arlington had a terrible reputation. Even people in Arlington were down on the school, and no one I knew who went there was proud to say it. There was a big scandal of some sort going on there, though I can't remember exactly what it was.

I realize that was quite awhile ago, and I know staff in higher education turns over at an ungodly rate (I work in higher education today and see it happen on a regular basis). So, it's possible that reputation could have been rehabilitated, but I'm not sure it's ever recovered, and it seems like those problems really set the school back.

 

[Radio Hound]

92.5 The Patriot

You can hear that station on KZEP-HD3.

 

[cowboybud]

Don't expect to see UTSA to be stomped by the UT Longhorns, SMU, Texas Tech, Rice, Baylor or Oklahoma. They will play against small community colleges and Mexican high schools that you've never heard of.

UTSA will play its first season in what used to be called Division II and move up to Division I in its second year, along with Texas State, to join the Mountain West conference. (The Mountain West conference is the current home of a little school with a football program you might have heard of... Boise State.)

They're joining the WAC, not Mountain West.

 

[daypart]

Don't expect to see UTSA to be stomped by the UT Longhorns, SMU, Texas Tech, Rice, Baylor or Oklahoma. They will play against small community colleges and Mexican high schools that you've never heard of.

UTSA will play its first season in what used to be called Division II and move up to Division I in its second year, along with Texas State, to join the Mountain West conference. (The Mountain West conference is the current home of a little school with a football program you might have heard of... Boise State.)

They're joining the WAC, not Mountain West.

Thanks for correcting. I got confused between two conferences that I don't follow from a similar region of the country. :-[

 

[Leebo65]

I still think it is stupid for UTSA to have a Football program. Build a World Class Engineering Dept instead.

 

[salemjedi54]

Don't expect to see UTSA to be stomped by the UT Longhorns, SMU, Texas Tech, Rice, Baylor or Oklahoma. They will play against small community colleges and Mexican high schools that you've never heard of.

UTSA will play its first season in what used to be called Division II and move up to Division I in its second year, along with Texas State, to join the Mountain West conference. (The Mountain West conference is the current home of a little school with a football program you might have heard of... Boise State.)

Actually they are in the Football Championship SubDivision formally know as 1-AA ball.

 

[CTHank]

I still think it is stupid for UTSA to have a Football program. Build a World Class Engineering Dept instead.

A well run football program can help finance the building of a world class engineering department.