uta's last football coach chuck curtis has passed on. he played quarterback for tcu and was once an assistant coach at smu. he was in the texas football hall of fame and once threw three touchdown passes as tcu beat syracuse and hall of famer jim brown. he was 11-10-1 at uta before the school dropped football.

(05-10-2016 03:09 PM)runamuck Wrote:  uta's last football coach chuck curtis has passed on. he played quarterback for tcu and was once an assistant coach at smu. he was in the texas football hall of fame and once threw three touchdown passes as tcu beat syracuse and hall of famer jim brown. he was 11-10-1 at uta before the school dropped football.

Did he coach in a cowboy hat and boots? Kind of like the old Oilers coach.

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Yes, that's him.

His 1986 team would have almost been fully his, with 11 offense starters returning, including the all-time, single-season passing yards QB, the conference leader in receiving yards and freshman fullback who ran for almost 700 yards in split duty (he would also go on the SMU). The defense would have returned eight starters that held opponents to offensive yardage that were lows for the last several seasons. Also, both kickers would have been back, including the place kicker who just set a single-season record for most FG's in a season, then would go on to stAte and set records there.

His 1985 team was seven points away from a SLC championship, losing by 1 to the SLC champs, stAte (coach Curtis swore up and down Roper made the GW FG as time expired), 3 to UNT and tied McNeese.

In total, six players would transfer to SWC schools and another 34 would transfer to I-A schools.

I really feel UTA, or more accurately President Nedderman royally F-ed him over. He worked hard to try and get in the collegiate ranks and finally gets a chance with UTA. He was hired with the plan to recruit primarily HS kids, a change from the previous coach, with the idea to identify local talent. He has the team primed for an SLC-title run in year three and is told instead he will have no team. He works frantically to get the kids that want to transfer to other programs and then never coaches again, at least in the college ranks.

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(05-10-2016 11:00 PM)FoUTASportscaster Wrote:  Yes, that's him.

His 1986 team would have almost been fully his, with 11 offense starters returning, including the all-time, single-season passing yards QB, the conference leader in receiving yards and freshman fullback who ran for almost 700 yards in split duty (he would also go on the SMU). The defense would have returned eight starters that held opponents to offensive yardage that were lows for the last several seasons. Also, both kickers would have been back, including the place kicker who just set a single-season record for most FG's in a season, then would go on to stAte and set records there.

His 1985 team was seven points away from a SLC championship, losing by 1 to the SLC champs, stAte (coach Curtis swore up and down Roper made the GW FG as time expired), 3 to UNT and tied McNeese.

In total, six players would transfer to SWC schools and another 34 would transfer to I-A schools.

I really feel UTA, or more accurately President Nedderman royally F-ed him over. He worked hard to try and get in the collegiate ranks and finally gets a chance with UTA. He was hired with the plan to recruit primarily HS kids, a change from the previous coach, with the idea to identify local talent. He has the team primed for an SLC-title run in year three and is told instead he will have no team. He works frantically to get the kids that want to transfer to other programs and then never coaches again, at least in the college ranks.

Roper has always said he never missed a field goal at Indian Stadium. We just smile at him.