Category: Texas State Bobcats
On the Road to Success
San Marcos — If you walk through the Darren B. Casey Athletic Administration Complex, you will get the feeling something big is about to happen. There’s a certain excitement flowing through the air.
Boxes are piled high with packets containing infor… more »
Lamar's Grid Return Pleases SLC Boss
HUNTSVILLE — Southland Conference commissioner Tom Burnett said he was delighted to see Lamar University reinstating football after a 20-year absence.
Burnett remembered Lamar football from his collegiate days at Louisiana Tech. The league's commissi… more »
Small-School Perception Still Looms at Texas State
If Texas State wants to change its small-school perception, then it’s time it changes its small-school athletic department.
Texas State has some big dreams for its programs in the near future according to Dr. Larry Teis, Director of Athletics. The vi… more »
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 -… more »
Texas State Penalized by NCAA
The NCAA announced Tuesday that it penalized Texas State for its failure to live up to academic standards. Texas State was one of 123 Division I schools which were sanctioned.
Prior to the NCAA’s announcement Tuesday concerning Academic Progress Rate… more »
SFA, Texas State Football Receive APR Penalities
Stephen F. Austin and Sam Houston State were among the schools with multiple sanctions following the announcement of the NCAA’s multi-year Academic Progress Reports, which came out Tuesday afternoon.
The Houston women’s basketball team was also strip… more »
Commentary: The State Of The Union For Texas State
In Division I pursuit, Bobcats have work cut out for them.
SAN MARCOS — It's a warm Saturday afternoon in September of 2013, and Texas is taking the field at 100,000-seat Royal-Memorial Stadium for its season-opener against fellow Division I-A footba… more »
Bobcats Coming Together Offensively
San Marcos — As the Texas State football team prepares for its scrimmage today, head coach Brad Wright has been pleased with the Bobcats offensive execution and improvement on defense in their second week.
Texas State will hold its second scrimmage o… more »
Pain, or Gain, For Texas State?
The students at Texas State University approved a fee increase two weeks ago for the purpose of supporting big-time football, thereby encumbering future student generations with a feast or famine scenario.
It's not right or wrong. It's not bad or goo… more »
Texas State Makes Play to Move Up Football Ladder
BEAUMONT - Lamar University and Texas State University-San Marcos both had football items on the agenda Friday at the Board of Regents' meeting in Mary and John Gray Library on the Lamar campus.
But Texas State already has football, and its aspiratio… more »
Texas State Votes To Pay For FBS Move
The students at Texas State are willing to pay for big-time football.
Texas State students voted overwhelmingly to increase their athletics fee by $10 per semester credit hour in $2 per year increments over five years to help the university move its… more »
AAFL Draft Features 47 FCS Alumni
The All-American Football League, a for-profit, professional football league, held their inaugural draft on Saturday, January 26th. In that draft were 47 alumni of schools who played Football Championship Subdivision football (formerly known as I-AA fo… more »
Lamar Football: You Game?
BEAUMONT - In the last football game they ever played, the Lamar Cardinals came from behind in the fourth quarter to upset McNeese State.
But Lamar has never had a comeback to match this one.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Lamar University students wil… more »
Texas State players involved in assault
Bobcat football player accuses team member of attack
San Marcos — A Texas State University football player beaten in his San Marcos home early Friday was so badly injured he was taken to Brackenridge Hospital in Austin, police said.
Brian Quackenb… more »
McLaren keeping recruiting options open
High school prospect looks at Southland schools.
Friendswood's Matt McLaren has been one of the most sure-handed receivers in the Houston area over the last three years, earning first-team All 23-4A and the Galveston County Daily News' All-County tea… more »