Two weeks ago Texas State Athletic Director Larry Teis accomplished something I didn’t think was possible. Typically after an athletic director fires a head coach with a 7-28 record, the fan base will rejoice and look forward to change.

In Texas State’s case, Withers’ exit only has fans more riled up and mutinous than ever.

While it’s always hard to justify keeping a coach with a 20 percent winning percentage through three seasons, Withers’ team was beginning to show some serious improvement and potential when he was axed.

There’s certainly a debate to be had over whether or not Withers was fired prematurely if we’re looking at the decision in a vacuum, but the situation in San Marcos muddies the waters.

Over the span of the season, public pressure on Larry Teis hit a real tipping point. Teis has been an.... unpopular... figure in San Marcos for many years, but when highly-respected Austin Statesman sports columnist Cedric Golden revealed that Teis has never once answered or returned one of Golden’s phone calls it struck a match that eventually erupted into public protests against Teis.

Despite another losing season for the Bobcats, boosters weren’t flying plane banners on game day asking for Head Coach Everett Withers to be fired — Athletic Director Larry Teis held that honor.

Texas State students protested Teis during a nationally-televised Thursday night game by wearing gold and maroon ties that had been horizontally cut with scissors — a plea for Texas State to “cut ties with Teis”.

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Dr. Teis can obviously sense the rampant anger among the Texas State fan base. Perhaps he thought offering up Withers as a sacrificial lamb would appease Bobcat fans. Instead, the calls for Teis’ resignation have only grown louder and more frequent.

Keff Ciardello, Texas State beat writer at the Austin Statesman, has done a terrific job of covering the aftermath of Withers’ outing. Many sources have come forward with information that makes Teis and Texas State seem so incompetent, it’s hard to understand how the football program is still operating.

Here are a few of the more notable reports Ciardello has tweeted recently.

This list could go on and on if we include other allegations from former Texas State student athletes and former employees in the athletics department.

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If even half of the list above is 50% true Texas State is, bar none, the worst run major college football program I have ever heard of. Every high school in Texas is able to correctly budget to provide proper nutrition for their athletes but Texas State, with the largest operating budget in the Sun Belt conference, can’t find a way to make ends meet? Bobcat boosters and students sure aren’t getting much bang for their buck.

This tapestry of incompetence may be news to those of us outside college football programs, but I guarantee that it isn’t a secret to anyone within the college football coaching fraternity. Coaches love to gossip and word of a stingy athletic director or a disinterested school president spread quickly.

Ladies if he:

-prefers the status quo

-tells you he loves you but doesn’t know your name

-is trying to kill the GOAT tailgate

-makes $330k while accomplishing nothing



He’s not your man. He’s Larry Teis. #FireTeis — dk (@youngdeezy0926) November 26, 2018

With all of this dirt now out in the public domain, Teis will have an even further hill to climb while attempting to hire a replacement for Withers. Only the most desperate coaches will be willing to come work for a man who can’t communicate, can’t handle criticism, and doesn’t prioritize the care of student-athletes.

Texas State is one of the most underrated jobs in college football. From a beautiful campus and stadium to a large student body and access to recruits in every Texas metropolitan area, the Bobcats have a ton of positives to offer. But that enticing potential will never be realized until Texas State can stop tripping over its own feet.

Once the proper leadership is in place the Bobcats should have no shortage of suitors lining up for the opportunity to lead Texas State to its first bowl game. But until Larry Teis is no longer calling the shots in San Marcos, don’t expect the next Scott Satterfield or Neal Brown to come knocking on the Bobcats’ door. Smart coaches don’t commit career suicide by placing their future in the hands of a clueless boss.