SAN ANTONIO ? UTSA Director of Athletics Lynn Hickey announced Monday that Larry Coker, Paul Randolph and Mel Tjeerdsma are the three finalists for head coach of the school’s newly-created football program.
Coker was the head coach at Miami from 2001-06 and is a current television analyst for ESPN. Randolph just completed his third season as associate head coach and co-defensive coordinator at Tulsa. Tjeerdsma (pronounced CHURCH-mah) recently completed his 15th season as head coach at Northwest Missouri State.
“We were blessed with great interest from a wide variety of qualified candidates,” Hickey said. “It was a tough decision to narrow the field down to these three finalists, but our search committee has done a committed and thorough job throughout the interview process. We feel very comfortable with our selections.
“Our plan is to interview these three finalists over the next 10 days and then come to a decision shortly thereafter. As I have said previously during the search, it would not be appropriate for me to make any comments from this point forward until the announcement is made.”
