Just days away from the spring football game, UTSA went through its next-to-last practice of the spring season on Wednesday morning at the UTSA Practice Fields.UTSA will hold its final team spring practice on Friday before hosting the UTSA Football Fiesta Spring Game on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Dub Farris Athletic Complex. Admission and parking are free and gates to the stadium will open at noon. Fans are asked to enter the facility through the northwest gate and fill the west side of the stadium first.Fans can listen to a live broadcast of the game beginning at 12:30 p.m. on Ticket 760 AM in the San Antonio area, online at ticket760.com and via the free iHeartRadio app. Andy Everett (play-by-play), Jay Riley (analyst) and Pat Evans (sideline reporter) will call all the action.The Roadrunners will open the 2019 season on Saturday, Aug. 31, against UIW at the Alamodome. Other home games on the slate include Army West Point (Sept. 14), UAB (Oct. 12), Rice (Oct. 19), Southern Miss (Nov. 16) and Florida Atlantic (Nov. 23).Season tickets are on sale now by calling or texting 210-458-UTSA (8872) or visiting goUTSA.com/tickets.A special edition of TheShow is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, at Walk-On's Bistreaux & Bar (11075 IH-10 W) and the hour-long show will air live on Ticket 760 AM, online at ticket760.com and via the free iHeartRadio app.Opening statement …"Coming into the back end of a spring season where the intentions are to develop your team. To develop the quality depth. To break in a new play caller from an offensive standpoint and to build on year two of a defensive coordinator. To be build the depth to allow this team to withstand the rigors of a season, a preseason camp, of a fall football season, is our intentions. For the most part, we've been extremely healthy and able to do that at respective positions. No different than any other year, you have bumps and bruises and guys with those types of things, but we are very fortunate that we are in a position to be able to go through a spring relatively healthy. In a day like today, you want to be able to start cumulating different aspects of the game. Today, we did that. The competitive nature, throughout the practice, from an offense, from a defense, from a special team standpoint, was outstanding. We're a better team today, then we were in spring practice No. 1. We're a better team today then we were at the back end of last season. I like our team. I like our development. I like our explosiveness from an offensive standpoint. I like our tenacity and eagerness from a defensive standpoint. I like our young kickers that have stepped in and kicked the ball through the upright to give us some stability at the kicking game. Very pleased with where we are at right now."On what he'd like to see from the spring game …"I'd like to see our guys compete. It's one of those things where it's the first time we're able to display who we are to our fans, community, city and our state. We'd like to go out and play fast, play clean and play the style of ball that they've been trained to do so. To put on a good display for our faithful. It's worthwhile, we owe it to them, to show the due diligence that we've been putting forth to develop our football program."On the format for the spring game …"The best way to do it, is to allow guys to have a starter on one team and a starter on another team and then compete. The best way to do it is to play teams against each other, in my opinion, opposed to offense against defense. It'll be a Blue team and a White team and we'll compete, have regulation 10-minute quarters and keep score as normal. As opposed to a defense vs. an offense and trying to manufacture points based on a tackle, sack, etc., which sometimes you have to do when your depth doesn't allow you to be able to play traditional. We'll play traditional and I think it gives us our best players on the field competing against one another in a spirited manor."On if Saturday is a chance to showcase the team for the fans …"We're the flagship program of our city. It's important that our city, our fans, our boosters, our alumni base, are able to see what we have in store and upcoming. Certainly not a finished product, we still have 20-plus young men who are not here right now that will report June 1, so our identity will continue to evolve for the better. But we're excited to go out and play and have some fun."On if the spring scrimmages have resembled the spring-game setup …"We try to emulate it as much as possible, what would be a spring game in our every Saturday scrimmages. So, normal, but yet not normal because of the attendance. It should not make a difference but it always make a difference because there is family and friends. Human nature dictates that you want to perform well. It will be good for our team to start getting used to that, especially our mid-year enrollees and first-year players, to play in front of a crowd."