Heard on another forum that Texas San Antonio is getting a FB team, and will be part of the Southland Conference at some point.
EDIT:
Apparently I'm way behind the times on this one.
http://www.utsa.edu/today/2009/03/coker.cfm
UTSA introduces Larry Coker as first football coach
By Kyle Stephens
Sports Information Director
(March 6, 2009)--Officials at The University of Texas at San Antonio today introduced Larry Coker as UTSA's first head football coach. Coker was selected from a field of three finalists to build an NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision program from the ground up. The announcement, attended by more than 500 students, faculty, staff and friends of UTSA took place just before students were heading off campus for their annual spring break.
"This is an exciting time for athletics at UTSA and we had a great group of finalists," said UTSA President Ricardo Romo. "We are exceptionally pleased that Larry Coker has accepted our offer to organize and lead the first Roadrunner football program and we all look forward to starting a new tradition at UTSA."
"We are extremely thrilled to be able to announce Larry Coker as our first head coach," said UTSA Athletic Director Lynn Hickey. "To be able to bring in somebody of his caliber and with his resumé to start up our program is a wonderful thing for the university and the community."
Coker, who has been a college football television analyst for ESPN the last two years, is the former head coach at Miami, where he compiled a 60-15 record and three Big East Championships in six seasons. He guided the Hurricanes to an undefeated season in 2001, capturing the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) title with a 37-14 win against Nebraska in the Rose Bowl.
A 28-year coaching veteran at the collegiate level and two-time National Coach of the Year, Coker has served on staffs at five different schools. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Miami from 1995 to 2000. Before his tenure in Coral Gables, he spent three seasons at Ohio State, where he was the quarterbacks coach in 1995 and the defensive backs coach from 1993 to 1994. Coker spent two seasons as the offensive coordinator at Oklahoma in 1990-92 and also served in the same capacity at Oklahoma State from 1983 to 1989 and at Tulsa in 1980-82. He began his collegiate coaching career at Tulsa as the running backs and quarterbacks coach in 1979.
A native of Okemah, Okla., Coker was a three-year letterman at Northeastern State University, where he received his bachelor's degree in history in I970 and a master's in guidance counseling and physical education in 1973. He and his wife, Dianna, have a daughter, Lara, and two grandchildren, twins Daniel and Dillon Goldmann.
The University of Texas System Board of Regents approved UTSA's Athletic Initiative Business Plan on Dec. 18, which grants the university permission to add a football program. The plan calls for UTSA to develop an $84 million competitive athletics complex, add an NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS, formerly Division I-AA) football program with the intent to advance football and the athletics department's existing 16 intercollegiate programs to an NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS, formerly Division I-A) conference.
The Athletic Initiative directly supports UTSA's academic mission as outlined in its strategic plan, A Shared Vision UTSA 2016.
The University of Texas at San Antonio is one of the fastest growing higher education institutions in Texas and the second largest of nine academic universities and six health institutions in the UT System. As a multicultural institution of access and excellence, UTSA aims to be a premier public research university providing access to educational excellence and preparing citizen leaders for the global environment.
UTSA serves more than 28,400 students in 64 bachelor's, 47 master's and 21 doctoral degree programs in the colleges of Architecture, Business, Education and Human Development, Engineering, Honors, Liberal and Fine Arts, Public Policy, Sciences and Graduate School. Founded in 1969, UTSA is an intellectual and creative resource center and a socioeconomic development catalyst for Texas and beyond.
UTSA sponsors 16 intercollegiate sports at the NCAA Division I level and recently added football, which will field a team in 2011. The school is a member of the Southland Conference and captured the 2007-08 Commissioner's Cup for the best overall athletics program.
>> Read more about UTSA Athletics at the StepUpUTSA.com Web site.
