The Roadrunners may have started the season with a loss, but the Alamodome atmosphere was...
UTSA fans make fun of Houston coach Dana Holgorsen’s comments about fake noise being piped in at the Alamodome.Before the UTSA Roadrunners twice came meep-meeping back from the dead Saturday afternoon, before they ultimately fell just short of doing it again, and before a somber Jeff Traylor hurled himself into a fire of blame and self-flagellation, there was a scene at the Alamodome remarkable enough to make an old-timer laugh in wonder.
But Saturday? It had the look and feel of an honest-to-goodness tradition — a genuine part of a program that looks and feels more and more permanent every day.s to No. 24 Houston in triple-overtime?That doesn’t mean others can’t marvel at how much he’s gotten right. In that sense, this season will be seen by some as a step back from last year’s 11-0 start that vaulted the Roadrunners into the Associated Press poll and the mainstream college football consciousness. But that’s a simplistic way to gauge the progress of a program trying to prove, to use another Traylor motto, that it’s “built to last.”
Less than a week before Saturday’s season opener, some around the program nervously speculated about whether locals would embrace the Roadrunners the way they did last year. But in the final few days ticket sales picked up enough to fill the lower bowl of the Alamodome and require one side of the upper deck to be opened.
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