Frank Harris has been the quarterback of Texas-San Antonio for a long time.
Tuesday night’s Scooter’s Coffee Frisco Bowl against Marshall will be his swan song, an 8 p.m. kickoff on ESPN at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas, and Harris and company will face a Marshall team that’s won two of its last three, but has some questions (A Frisco Bowl win would carry extra meaning for Marshall, UTSA – Field Level Media – Professional sports content solutions).
The Thundering Herd lost their starting quarterback, Cam Fancher, and then coach Charles Huff threw the kid under the bus, saying that the Marshall fans hated Fancher and he was “miserable.”
Huff tried to walk back the comments, but like I tell my kids, once you put something out there, it’s out there. “I was asked a question by a reporter and I inserted my opinion over facts about a situation, which ultimately created a little bit of a sandstorm,” Huff said. “It was truly based on my opinion of a small minority of fans, and I actually generalized the entire fan base. That was wrong. I take full responsibility for that.”
Now, Harris and the Roadrunners will meet the son of a Marshall legend. The new quarterback is none other than Cole Pennington, the son of former Marshall quarterback Chad Pennington.
Pennington hasn’t had a lot of experience this season – it’s been mainly Fancher getting the bulk of the playing time. But Pennington does have running back Rasheen Ali, who has 1,043 yards and 14 touchdowns.
The Roadrunners (8-4) are back in the Frisco Bowl after an appearance there two years ago – they’d like to forget that one. They lost it to San Diego State, 38-24. UT-SA moved from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference this year.
Harris threw for 2,506 yards, had a hand in 22 touchdowns this year, and ran for 323 yards. One of his primary targets is Joshua Cephus, who had 82 catches for 1,049 yards and nine scores.
UT-SA is coached by Jeff Traylor, the former Texas high school coaching legend who was a candidate for the coaching vacancies at both Texas A&M and Mississippi State.
Traylor said his team needs to finish strong. “It’s important for us,” Traylor said. “There’s only a few things left in this program that we haven’t done, and this is one of those things we haven’t done, so for us it takes on a level of importance that’s probably more than most programs.”
