In 1969, the Texas Legislature passed into law H.B. 1969-42, which officially authorized the establishment of a branch of the University of Texas to serve San Antonio. In 1981, UTSA finally began sponsoring intercollegiate athletics, becoming one of the last (if not the last) school ever to achieve NCAA Division I membership without having previously competed in varsity sports. Thirty years later, the school finally established football.
We mention this to let you understand just how young this school is, and how meteoric its rise to its current status has been. While some who judge the value of a school on the size of its trophy case may look at UTSA as a relatively insignificant program, it's worth placing it in the proper perspective; with its location, metropolitan population, and exponentially increasing alumni base, UTSA may be but a generation away from being a coveted property on the national state.