USA today UTSA article

Coach Bill Lewis · August 31, 2014

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nca...r135zk60mj

It's a long article but an amazing story. If you don't want to read it all scroll down toward the end and it discussed UTSA's pre game and post game. Nice quotes from Coker and staff.

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Harry · September 1, 2014

Lynn Hickey was one of three finalists for the open UTSA athletics director position in 1999, when the most popular shirt at the university's bookstore played on the lack of a football program: "UTSA Football," it read, "Still Undefeated."

Each candidate for the position was asked the question: Do you think this university needs football?

One finalist, current North Texas athletics director Rick Villarreal, answered in the affirmative. Hickey, on the other hand, said no – and got the job.

She understood the landscape. At the time, UTSA's budget for football was $1.2 million – enough to field a lower-level program, perhaps, likely on the Division III, non-scholarship level, with the supremely tenuous promise of future growth. There was no infrastructure in place to handle the endeavor, both on campus and in the San Antonio community. The timing simply wasn't right, Hickey said.

Besides, developing a football program had been bandied about on campus for more than a decade. It also had been discussed by Hickey's predecessor, Bobby Thompson, who ran into similar speed bumps in the early 1990s – money, for one, but also the lack of an institutional foundation.