No way utsa keeps their HC. I don't think I have ever seen a team that bad. Especially at the FBS level.
Which makes it even worse that we only found the endzone twice.
Which makes it even worse that we only found the endzone twice.
Worst team to ever visit JCE
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Buffalo back in day, the SMU team that came here in 2005 (what I still consider the most boring game ever at the Joan, 16-13 OT "thriller").
The 2002 Buffalo game was ugly. From memory, I believe Leftwich had 402 passing yards at half, it was 52-0 at half, Marshall had about 750 yards of offense even though they called the dogs off very early, and Marshall managed to have almost 200 penalty yards.
I just looked at what Buffalo did that year: 1-11. They lost by double digits to Lehigh. They were still very new to FBS.
UTSA has a new AD which, by nature, leads to a quick turnover in coaches of major sports if they aren't successful. But they won't get rid of him this year. I think Frank Wilson is extremely overrated. He lucked into a legit DC last year who helped them survive. He lost that DC this year.
Last year, they had a ton of talent on offense. Their QB is with the Cowboys now and could run as well as he could throw. He had some big, fast receivers, yet their offense was awful last year. Wilson fired his OC because of it.
Wilson tries to act like he is just a good, down-home, country boy. But he's a pompous fool who carries himself like an idiot.
Last season, before he was playing at a Sun Belt stadium, he walked around the entire field with three police officers surrounding him. It was two hours before kickoff, there were 14 people in the stands at that time, and he felt the need to have three police officers surround him as he walked the turf. It wasn't like it was an SEC atmosphere where people would be verbally harassing him, let alone even recognize him to say one word.
Then, every once in a while, he would stop, point out a flaw in the turn or something about the stadium, shake his head and laugh, and act like he was too good to be playing there.
That Buffalo team was worse than UTSA yesterday... At least UTSA played some defense. If the coaches would have left Byron in the game through out we would have beaten Buffalo 80-0.
On the radio broadcast, Mark Martin and Steve Cotton mentioned UTSA's struggles and that this was only their 8th season of playing football. Mark then mentioned that Doc stated during the media visit, and I'm paraphrasing, "Remember, UTSA is in Texas. They'll be fine." This is in reference to the talent pool that UTSA can recruit from, just in their home state. I guess UTSA missed the mark on that talent for this season.
Well, their wins are against Rice and UTEP. Those two teams are a combined 3-44 over the last two years, so that's how bad.
And, since they are both in the West Division, 2 of those 3 wins come against each other.
They were definitely one of the worst 2-3 D1 teams to play in our stadium. No narrative here, just sad fact.
Buffalo may have been the worst in 2002.
Other than the previously mentioned Buffalo team, who have we played that was worse? This team is #115 in the country and their wins were against #117 and #118 I think in UTEP and Rice and Southern. They are ranked #175 in the Sagarin ratings which means that there are somewhere around 50 FCS teams that are ranked higher than them. There may be an argument that we played a couple of Kent or Akron teams that were as bad in the late 90s but that was almost 20 years ago.
Moral of the story, I don't think it has much to do with narrative. I haven't seen a team that bad since the aforementioned Buffalo team.
It's close regardless. -26 rushing yards is just crazy. I don't think we've ever held someone to negatove rushing yards at home. I know they said it was a record for us.
Giving them some credit, they had 20 scholarship athletes NOT dressed for the game. With only 65 available, they are equal in scholarship players as a FCS team. They were missing their top 3 QB's and 3 of their top 5 RB's
Relative to the long term potential of UTSA, time will tell, of course, but this whole venture looks like another one of these CUSA "they have so much potential" ventures. Yeah, after all of the big teams get their fill in Texas, there are enough players left for 20 more good teams, but what that really means is you are recruiting against teams that play Texas or Texas A&M who can sell the "you can show them" narrative. Look at the bottom feeder Big 12 rosters to understand, or even some of the lesser teams in the SEC west. Or look at how Nebraska has fallen since they lost that ability and started playing such rivals as Rutgers, Maryland, and Minnestota. And, yes, UTSA has over 30K students, and the UT system is the best funded college system in the country, equalling a 60% subsidy rate., and it is a metro of 2.5M people, but the real Texas is just an hour up the road. I really do not see the "potential" just like I never did with UNCC or ODU or any of these "they have X million within X miles of the campus" deals.
Anybody know how UAB is REALLY doing in gate? The 20K ish numbers they are listing see made up. Another "potential" in a big shadow.
Isn't UAB the team with like 40 seniors ? Half the roster?
