How a bunch of Oklahomans helped UTSA build a football program from scratch shares email

UTSA President Ricardo Romo (center) is joined by football head coach Larry Coker (left) and athletic director Lynn Hickey (right) for a portait on Media Day for the UTSA football program at the Alamodome on Friday, August 19, 2011. Kin Man Hui/kmhui@express-news.net

When Lynn Hickey interviewed for the Texas-San Antonio athletic director job in 1999, UTSA President Ricardo Romo asked her if the school should consider adding football. Hickey told him no. “It was cost prohibitive,” Hickey said. She told Romo, “Be good at what you've got.” Hickey got the job. And a year later realized she had said the wrong thing.