UTSA leading 21-0 over Houston

[untjim1995]

Larry Coker can coach. He's in an area with solid recruits. It's a good combination for UTSA.

Unlike many here, I never laughed at the Coker hire.

McCarney is similar: experienced, knows what he's doing, and in a good area of the country for recruiting.

Congrats to UTSA. And, here's to hoping we can pull an even bigger upset tonight.

I, too, felt the same way about Coker at UTSA. Always thought they hit a home run on that hire and they have used every single advantage they have as a school in San Antonio to get built very quickly. I still feel like they are the second version of USF.

I love Dan McCarney, too. He has enthusiasm and a great presence about him. But he is facing the hardest enemy to beat--a culture that accepts losing and mediocrity. He has done a great job so far in trying to beat it down, but there is still a long way to go. I just hope that over the course of the next 12 games (yes, including a bowl game) that we can duplicate our success from last year. I have us at 8-9 wins this year and I still believe we will ge there. But this past weekend's effort at Texas was just Dickey-esque in its patheticness--just run out a vanilla gameplan to run out the clock and collect $875k with as few injuries as possible so as not to show the rest of the schedule anything on tape--so that has me questioning that prediction. But I'm gonna assume we will do what we did back in 2006--lose bad to Texas in the opener and then beat SMU at home in the next game.