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As a UNT alum, I would like to personally thank you for leading us to our first victory against UTKFC tonight. This has been a tough season, but you came in and did a very good job turning this program around the last couple of weeks. Thank you for understanding this is an important game for the program. Thank you for your hard work on behalf of the program and Go Mean Green!

Don't get me wrong, I really want to beat them every chance we get. Losing to them 2 straight years was one of the lowest points I have felt since becoming a fan. I never really felt like Mac understood the importance of this series. We;re Texans dammit! This is state pride. This is an important game no matter what the records are. But looking at their current situation, a part of me feels a little sorry for them. So much initial excitement with a new program. Former national championship coach, rising AD, Media coverage, leap frogging conferences, beating teams they weren't supposed to beat. Getting big teams at home. Great attendance. Then, after some setbacks they find themselves in a place all too familiar to us. I remember when we moved back up to I-A how visions of sugar plums danced in my head. Every game was on national television, we were playing big time schools. We were coming off of a great season in I-AA. With every loss and every year that passed the excitement and hope started to dwindle. The realization that our facilities were crap and the impact on recruiting became evident. When I saw the UTSA's initial enthusiasm on the internet it reminded me of when we moved up and how naive we were as to what a hard road it would be. Sure you get an initial boost when you show up on the scene, but as the losses pile up, the enthusiasm starts to fizzle. The realities of facilities and funding start to creep in. The beloved coach starts getting criticism from the fans. The schedule, which initially looked so impressive, starts to look more like a funding mechanism more than anything else. Friends, neighbors who were so interested in the program initially start to spend their time doing other things. UTSA fans were quick to point out to us how much they had accomplished in a short period of time, and compared against us that is certainly true. But competing at this level for the long term with limited funding is tough. They seem to be making strides in that area but as we know it can take time. I think we have the makings of great rivalry and hope that both programs will soon rise up from the doldrums we find ourselves in now.

SAN ANTONIO — Sophomore Bob Sturm is expected to make his third straight start at quarterback for the struggling UTSA Roadrunners this week. UTSA coach Larry Coker said the walk-on from Goliad would get the call as the starter at North Texas in a Conference USA West Division game, as No. 1 Blake Bogenschutz continues his recovery from concussion symptoms. Bogenschutz suffered the injury on Oct. 3 during the fourth quarter of a UTSA victory at UTEP, and he hasn’t practiced since. Asked if the redshirt freshman from Carthage could be out for the season, Coker declined to speculate. “I don’t know that,” Coker said. “It’s going to be up to the physicians. It’s totally out of my hands, and it should be.” The game will be played Saturday night in Denton, a Halloween night match between two struggling, Texas-based FBS programs. Wracked with injuries, UTSA (1-6, 1-2 in C-USA) is off to its slowest start in five years as a football program, while North Texas (0-7, 0-4) has already experienced the trauma of a coaching change. read more: http://blog.mysanantonio.com/utsa/2015/10/utsa-prepares-for-north-texas-sturm-projected-to-start-at-qb/

UTSA is in a rebuilding mode after losing 36 seniors, including 18 players who had been in the program since the Roadrunners' first workout in 2010. "It's kind of the computer term – reboot," UTSA coach Larry Coker said. "We're going to reboot. We've got some young guys coming in. We lost a lot of guys, but I like our talent. I like our energy. I like our coaching staff. We've got a lot of work to do. We're a work in progress, but I like where we are. "It is a fresh start, guys trying to prove themselves and earn positions, guys trying to earn positions, guys trying to earn playing time. There's no entitlement this year. We've got to earn everything we can get." Redshirt freshman Blake Bogenschutz, who missed most of last season with a broken hand, will start preseason workouts as the Roadrunners' No. 1 quarterback. Senior Russell Bellomy, a transfer from Michigan, and sophomore letterman Austin Robinson, who started four of eight games he played in last year, are listed as the team's No. 2 and No. 3 quarterbacks, respectively, in the team's first depth chart of the preseason. "I like all those guys," Coker said. "Russell coming in is going to add some competition. I'm excited about our competition at quarterback." read more: http://www.kens5.com/story/opinion/contributors/david-flores/2015/08/02/coker-utsa--reboot-after-losing-season-last-year/31040201/ Hmm that is interesting...