Utsa Fall 2023 Calendar

Utsa Fall 2023 Calendar – UTSA drives to the field for its 2021 meeting with Southern Miss, a game on the Roadrunners’ 2022 schedule, though the Eagles plan to leave C-USA by then.Ronald Cortes /

Just four days after Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Miss announced they would not compete in Conference USA this fall, the league released the 2022 schedule Tuesday, which includes dates for all three programs.

Utsa Fall 2023 Calendar

The rift between the league and its members leaves at least one match on UTSA’s schedule open, with the Roadrunners scheduled to play at Southern Miss on Oct. 29.

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“Conference USA plans to hold the 2022-23 athletic year with all 14 organizational members intact,” the league said in a statement released Tuesday. “The C-USA Board of Directors will exhaust all necessary legal actions to ensure that all members fulfill their contractual obligations as defined and agreed upon in the Conference USA Bylaws.”

The uncertainty is the latest step in a restructuring process that will see most of the league begin new relationships in the coming years.

UTSA was one of six schools to announce future transfers to the American Athletic Conference in October, making the jump from C-USA along with Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, North Texas, Rice and UAB. This migration is planned until July 2024 at the latest, with the possibility of migration in 2023.

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Marshall, Old Dominion and Southern Miss announced in late October that they would switch to the Sun Belt by July 2023 at the latest, and on Friday afternoon the three programs released statements announcing plans to withdraw their membership from C-USA, which is effective as of June 30, 2022

According to statements from the program, the departure dates were sent to C-USA in early December, and the league declined to participate in finding a solution to fill the schedule for other members.

“The conference declines to discuss the resolution with the university,” Marshall’s statement read. “Our student-athletes, coaches, staff, fan base and the rest of Conference USA deserve clarity on this matter, hence the need for today’s message.”

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Marshall’s interim athletic director Jeff O’Malley tweeted after the league’s announcement Tuesday that the program stands by Friday’s statement.

With projected rankings of 14 teams and eight divisional weeks, each Conference USA school is projected to play six divisional opponents and two divisional games. For UTSA, the two games are against Eastern Conference schools in Middle Tennessee on Oct. 1 and at home against Western Kentucky on Oct. 8.

The Roadrunners also have road games scheduled at Southern Miss on Oct. 29, at UAB on Nov. 5 and at Rice on Nov. 26, as well as home games against Louisiana Tech on Oct. 22, North Texas on Nov. 12 and UTEP on Nov. 19 (TEXAS TRIBUNE ) – The University of Texas at San Antonio has criticized the UT System administration for its recent decision to stop displaying the famous “Come and Get It” flag at football games after some in the university community claimed the slogan contains racism.

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Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife said in a statement last week that he was disappointed by UTSA President Taylor Eighmy’s decision to end the six-year tradition, which included hanging a large banner with the slogan over the student section during the fourth quarter. and fire a cannon.

“The Board of Regents does not support abandoning the traditions and history that mean so much to students, alumni and other Texans,” Eltife said. “I am deeply disappointed by this decision and will immediately ask our board to establish a policy that ensures the UT System board has the opportunity to consult in the future before important university traditions and practices are changed.”

UTSA began flying the flag in 2011, the school’s first football season, and in 2016 it became an official tradition to cheer on fans and challenge opponents on the field.

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The origin of the flag, which includes a slogan and an image of a cannon under a star, dates back to the Battle of Gonzales during the Texas Revolution in 1835. As the story goes, the Mexican authorities lent a small cannon to the town of Gonzales for protection against Indian tribes. When Mexican soldiers demanded that the cannon be returned, Gonzales residents responded by raising a hand-made flag with the words “Come and take it.”

The flag has long been a symbol of Texas pride and has been widely adopted by groups that send a message of defiance or protest government overreach, such as Second Amendment supporters and abortion rights advocates.

Opponents of the tradition at UTSA expressed concern that versions of the motto, placed atop the Confederate flag and flown during the Jan. 6 riots, were adopted by groups expressing anti-Mexican and anti-immigrant sentiments.

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Nearly 60% of UTSA’s student body of nearly 35,000 is Hispanic, and the school has been designated a Hispanic institution by the federal government. The university also emphasized its desire to be a “Hispanic Success Institution.”

Some historians have said that this particular moment in history sparked a feeling of rebellion against the Mexican government, but also led to anti-Mexican sentiments that carried over to the Republic of Texas. The eventual establishment of the Republic of Texas also led to the re-legalization of slavery in the area.

“Tejanos lost land, lost political office, lost economic power,” UTSA history professor Omar Valerio-Jimenez said of this period in history. “This is not a time where Tejanos have done well.”

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Eigmy declined an interview request, but said in a statement to the Texas Tribune Monday that he appreciates the board’s point of view.

“We look forward to continuing our work together to advance education, research and service for the public good,” Eigmy said.

UTSA administrators began changing the tradition in August when the school unveiled a new $40 million athletics facility, called the Roadrunner Athletics Center of Excellence, or RACE, and decorated it with a flag and slogan.

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A former UTSA professor started a petition, which has garnered about 960 signatures, arguing that UTSA should remove the term because it is “anti-Mexican and pro-slavery.”

Sarah Zenaida Gould, executive director of the Mexican American Civil Rights Institute in San Antonio, said she thinks a piece of history has been lost over time for some and praised the university for its decision.

“I think the more the public starts to understand the context of things like the Battle of the Alamo and the racial politics of the Texas Revolution, I think the flag will only become more problematic if they let it stay,” she said. He said.

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Originally, Eigmy said in early August that the meaning of the flag could be different for different people, and announced plans for a task force to investigate current and future traditions.

But last week, in a letter to the UTSA community, he said he was breaking tradition and not continuing with the task force.

Eighmy said in the memo that an Internet search revealed that many groups have adopted the slogan for special purposes in recent years, many of which have values ​​and policies that differ from UTSA’s mission as a public university.

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“The organization — however well-intentioned in its inception and adoption — has become increasingly inconsistent with UTSA Athletics and the mission and core values ​​of our organization,” he wrote. “For our athletic program and our university — each with so much promise and upward momentum — there is no benefit to meddling in a divisive issue that could carry far into the future and negatively impact our progress.”

He tasked the vice president of intercollegiate athletics with working with football players, students, faculty, staff and alumni to create a new fourth quarter tradition to begin with the fall 2022 football season.

Since Eigmy announced his decision, a new petition urging the school to uphold the tradition has circulated online with more than 3,000 signatures by Tuesday morning. Lindee Fiedler, president of UTSA’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter, said there is confusion among students in her organization about how using the flag is offensive. She wished the school community had voted on what to do.

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“We’re very careful about erasing history,” Fiedler said. “We do not want to free ourselves from this historical context of our country and our schools. … It brings great pride to most students. And everyone I expect to be offended by that is probably a little person.”

This is not the first time that the UT System Board of Trustees has interfered with university tradition.

Regents upheld the University of Texas at Austin’s decision to keep the song “The Eyes of Texas” after students and faculty at the flagship university called on the school to stop singing the song over concerns about its origins during a campus performance. at the turn of the 20th century where students probably wore blackface.

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Eltife worked closely with UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell on the development