The early 2000’s were a good time for North Texas, where they won four conference championships from 2001-2004. The very next year was not so good, and 2006 less so, and at the end of that, the architect of those titles, Darrell Dickey, was let go.
Also in 2006, the the University of Texas-San Antonio approached Carr Sports Associates, Inc to do a feasibility study about maybe, if it was cost-effective, possibly expanding their athletic department to incorporate a football program.
UTSA received the results in November of that year, and from that day forward, UTSA athletics has improved steadily, while North Texas football got bad and stayed bad until very, very recently.