GJ Winne

Big fan of our throwbacks.

Thanks for the name. Big week for the Bobcats on the recruiting trail - already got 3 former aTm commits as well. Pierce hire is paying off.

Apparently TXST has a commitment from a SS previously committed to Texas. Anyone have a name?

Fuck right off with that nonsense. Why would TXST want to go to a MWC that just lost 5 of their 6 best schools? Go from a very solid and stable conference with 14 teams to a shaky 8 team conference where it's best remaining program is being targeted (AFA) and the others aren't wanted by anyone else? As stated previously: location, location, location. Being the only school in a major media market with a stadium and hotels 10 min from an international airport holds a lot of weight. Having shit leadership the last 20 years didn't help. Posted in the UTSA thread last week:

I'd like to keep my coach for at least another year, please and thank you. Also, fuck Neon and Neon Jr. Hunter is a fucking stud though.

The only way I would have wanted to move would be if we ended up w/ the right combination of teams. I really like the Sun Belt, and not just for football. 12 teams in bowl games last year; Baseball, Softball, Volleyball were all 4 bid NCAAs. Hoops is weak - 1 bid ea for M/W. We are on an island in Texas, but that doesn't bother me as much as it does others. We have UTSA schedule through like 2031 and I'd think that continues in perpetuity.

I don't know about anything official, but the fans certainly talk about it. AFAIK, they get the Alamodome for free, and the dome gets the on-prem revenue (feel free to correct me on that), so I don't know that the school is trying to spend more money there. They do have a nice new athletic training facility on campus: https://goutsa.com/roadrunner-athletics-center-of-excellence The rest of their facilities are ass, my dude. Baseball, softball, basketball, volleyball - all HS level.

SBC! SBC! SBC!

I knew the beeps were soft, considering they need aircon and other teams to get any kind of crowd, but damn! Can't wait to see pics from the dome later today.

Watching beepbeep fans cope w/ damn near the whole team in Austin and Manu firing the cannon was incredibly entertaining this morning.

This was absolutely awesome, btw. Singer from our mariachi band solo'd during a timeout and just CRUSHED the whole time. Towards the end as the teams were coming back onto the field, the production person was trying to usher him off, but dude had his eyes locked on the officials w/ the countdown timer at the other end and belted out his song until that thing hit zero. Dude was straight up money and he had the crowd HYPED as we returned to play.

GJ Kinne continues to build something special in short time at Texas State In between the mascot riding a motorcycle onto the field and a mariachi break sometime during the second half, there was a football game on Thursday night. Texas State lost its first game of the season, falling 31-28 at UFCU Stadium to an Arizona State team that was picked to finish last in its first season in the Big 12, but has won three straight to start the season. It was a battle of the party schools, and it’s clear that, regardless of the result, Texas State head coach GJ Kinne is building something in San Marcos. “The message afterward was just to stay together,” Kinne said. “We’re going to go win a bunch of ballgames.” In less than a year and a half, Kinne has turned Texas State from a laughingstock into a sleeping giant. In three seasons under Everett Withers, the Bobcats failed to win more than three games. That was followed by four years with Jake Savaital as the head coach, where the Bobcats took a small step forward by winning four games in back-to-back seasons, but failed to really break through. Texas State brought in a different kind of coach when they hired Kinne before last season. The son of a former Baylor linebacker and coach built Incarnate Word into the top offensive team in all of college football in his one year in San Antonio. He brought in 49 new players in his first year, about half of which came from the transfer portal, beat Baylor in Waco in his first-ever game and led Texas State to their first bowl game in school history, where it beat Rice in the First Responders Bowl. Thursday night felt like a culmination of everything. With a Power Conference school coming to San Marcos for a standalone Thursday game on national television, the Bobcats didn’t disappoint. Thanks to 268 passing yards and four touchdowns by former Sun Belt Player of the Year quarterback Jordan McCloud, Texas State put up 400 yards of total offense in the loss to Arizona State. The Bobcats built a two-touchdown lead in the first half only to see the Sun Devils storm back with a pair of touchdowns in the final four minutes of the first half to tie things up. McCloud was about to get rocked by an incoming Arizona State defender late in the third quarter but stayed composed in the pocket to throw a 44-yard dime to Jaden Williams and reestablish the Texas State lead. Arizona State forced a pair of fourth-quarter turnovers, and reigning Big 12 Offensive Player of the Week Cam Skattebo rushed for a touchdown and Ian Hershey kicked the game-winning field goal with under three minutes to go. “When a good team like that, a Big 12 team, comes to your house, and you have an opportunity to capitalize, you’ve got to be able to capitalize,” Kinne said. “Most of the time, we’ve done that. We didn’t get it done and it’s just part of football. “We’ll learn from this, we’ll be battle-tested. Sometimes you don’t realize why, but it’ll play itself out.” Texas State has more than a week to figure out what went wrong in the second half on Thursday before taking on Sam Houston in its final non-conference game on Sept. 28 in Houston. Until then, the party in San Marcos rolls on. “I hate it for the kids that we weren’t able to get that win, but I think we earned a lot of respect around the country tonight," Kinne said.