Category: Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners
UTSA names Shane Elder as Director of Football Operations
SAN ANTONIO — UTSA head football coach Larry Coker announced Tuesday that he has hired Shane Elder as Director of Football Operations.
Elder’s appointment is effective immediately and he will be responsible for coordinating team travel, on-campus recruiting visits, the walk-on program and housing and meal programs for student-athletes, assisting with summer camps, overseeing the program’s compliance paperwork, scheduling and organizing community service outings and serving as the NFL and high school coaches liaison.
- 239 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners First-ever UTSA Football guide now available online
SAN ANTONIO — The first-ever UTSA Football guide is now available online at goUTSA.com.
The 36-page book features photos and information about the football program, UTSA, Alamodome and San Antonio, and it is presented in flip-page technology through Issuu.
- 99 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners USA Football to Face Three Fellow Start-Up Programs in Future
MOBILE, Ala. - The University of South Alabama football team will be able to test itself on numerous occasions against three other schools that are just starting their program with Friday’s announcement of future opponents.
The Jaguars will play home-and-home series against Georgia State, Lamar and Texas-San Antonio over the next three seasons, with two of those contracts set to begin in 2010.
- 494 words - Southland Conference, CAA, We Want FCS Football, Lamar Cardinals, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners, South Alabama Jaguars 2009 Southland Conference Football Media Day Quotes
The following is a compilation of quotes from coaches and players at Southland Conference Football Media Day:
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For the last few years, both Texas State and UTSA have been involved in conversations related to conference expansion.
For the first time, a Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) coach commented publicly in regards to adding the two Southland Conference schools to the Sun Belt Conference, doing so during a chat with fans on his school’s web site.
- 149 words - Southland Conference, Texas State Bobcats, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners Southland Announces 2009 Media Day Participants
The scheduled participants for this year’s Southland Conference Media Day event on July 29th in Lake Charles, La. were announced by the league today.
- 137 words - Southland Conference, Southeastern Louisiana Lions, McNeese State Cowboys, Sam Houston State Bearkats, Central Arkansas Bears, Nicholls State Colonels, Texas State Bobcats, Northwestern State Demons, Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks, Lamar Cardinals, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners UTSA hits the ground (road) running
UTSA recruiting coordinator Eric Roark excused himself in midsentence to answer his cell phone. It was a potential recruit, checking in to see what Roark and the Roadrunners had to offer.
Roark ticked down the list — an opportunity to start a new college football program, to play for former Miami coach Larry Coker, to start for four seasons, to live and study in one of the largest cities in the country.
- 595 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners UTSA football progress report
Month 2
Having started in April, Roadrunners coach Larry Coker and his three assistants completed their first official recruiting efforts this month, cramming in four weeks of campus visits throughout San Antonio and the state. Though they weren’t permitted to make face-to-face contact with the players, they were still able to extend a handful of scholarship offers, even landing the first three commitments earlier this week. Coker believes it’s the first step on a journey that could carry the Roadrunners, who doesn’t kickoff until 2011, into the Division I-A ranks by 2014.
- 1112 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners East Central running back commits to UTSA
Only days after earning its first batch of commitments, UTSA’s football program landed a splashy follow-up on Friday by luring East Central running back Chris Johnson away from a growing list of suitors that included two Big 12 schools.
“It’s so close to home,” Johnson said following the Hornets’ spring game. “A lot of people wanted me to go there so they could see me play — family, friends.”
- 340 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners First recruits commit to Coker, UTSA football
Brackenridge teammates Malcolm Greer and Earon Holmes and Altair Rice Consolidated defensive tackle Chris Dorsey have become the first players to commit to Larry Coker’s fledgling football program at UTSA.
- 385 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners UTSA's Coker Names Three Assistants
SAN ANTONIO — UTSA head football coach Larry Coker announced Wednesday that Mike Menefee, Eric Roark and David Ross have been hired as assistant coaches and all three will begin their appointments immediately.
“I’m very excited about completing phase one of assembling our coaching staff,” said Coker, who was introduced as head coach on March 6. “All three of these coaches bring an enormous amount of experience to UTSA. More importantly, they are high-character people who carry that hard-hat, lunch-pail mentality to work with them every day and that is important as we begin our recruiting processes.”
- 969 words - Southland Conference, Illinois State Redbirds, Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners UTSA: No Decision on Coach Yet
Officials are saying that reports the University of Texas-San Antonio has hired former University of Miami coach Larry Coker are premature. That means that Northwest Missouri State University coach Mel Tjeerdsma is still in the running for the head coach post.
A San Antonio television station News 4 WOAI is reporting that the UTSA has chosen Coker to start the Roadrunners football program. News 4 reporter Don Harris quoted unnamed sources “close to the process.” However, the school’s sports information department is saying that no decision has been made.
Why Tjeerdsma should, but won't, be the new coach at UTSA
Unless you’ve been living in a cave the past two days, you no doubt have heard Northwest Missouri State football coach Mel Tjeerdsma is a finalist for the Texas-San Antonio head coaching position and will interview with the Roadrunners next week.
The announcement surprised many of us who just assumed Tjeerdsma, 62, would retire a Bearcat. And he still might because I believe the Roadrunners will hire former Miami coach Larry Coker over Tjeerdsma.
- 359 words - Southland Conference, We Want FCS Football, Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners UTSA Roadrunners Name Three Football Coach Finalists
The search for UTSA’s first football coach has come down to a three-way race between a coach with a BCS national title, a coach highly regarded for his defensive expertise and recruiting skills, and one of the country’s most successful Division II coaches.
Former Miami head coach Larry Coker, Tulsa associate head coach Paul Randolph and Northwest Missouri head coach Mel Tjeerdsma were invited to San Antonio for another round of interviews after meeting with UTSA athletic director Lynn Hickey and her staff last week in Dallas.
UTSA Gets Green Light to Add Football
The University of Texas System Board of Regents today approved UTSA’s Athletic Initiative Business Plan granting the university permission to expand athletics and add a football program.
The plan calls for UTSA to develop an $84 million competitive athletic complex over the next several years and add an NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS / formerly Division I-AA) football program with the intent to advance the athletics department’s existing 16 intercollegiate sports programs plus football to an NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS / formerly Division I-A) conference.
Southland Coaches Not Worried About West Dominance
West is best in the Southland Conference. At least, it has been.
In the two years since the SLC split into divisions, the West has clearly had the upper hand.
In the four divisional sports – baseball, men’s and women’s basketball and volleyball – eight overall championships have been decided the last two years. Six have gone to West teams, with two shared between East and West teams. West teams have won all seven postseason tournaments in those sports (the 2008 baseball tournament is next week).
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