San Marcos — Teenagers and young adults don’t like waking up early on weekends. If they had their way, they’d sleep until the afternoon, get up, eat dinner and then begin their night.
Football players don’t have that luxury — especially at Texas State.
Saturday morning, while most of their fellow classmates were asleep, the Bobcats took to the turf at Bobcat Stadium for their final spring scrimmage.
“We got used to practicing in the mornings last year, but it’s always different waking up in the morning and coming out hitting,” Texas State linebacker Bryan Iwuji said. “After you go through your warm-ups and individual drills, you’re ready to go.”
San Marcos — Something was wrong with Kyle Kubitza.
His swing didn’t just have a hitch, it looked as if a bungee cord was wrapped around his bat and attached to the backstop.
Kubitza wasn’t getting the necessary torque from his body to uncoil on the swing and his average dipped. In 12 non-conference games, he hit a meager .208 with no home runs and six runs batted in.
So the coaching staff recently went back to the drawing board with Kubitza and tried to figure out the culprit.
“We wanted to change a little bit about his launch position to get him into a better position to hit the ball,” Texas State head coach Ty Harrington said. “You could be the smartest coach in the world, but if the kids don’t take the information, then you have nothing to show for it. Kyle’s coachable and has made us look good.”
San Marcos — Since Doug Davalos assumed the position of head coach of Texas State, the Bobcats have been on a steady rise in the Southland Conference.
Davalos took over a team that went 3-24 in 2004-05 under Dennis Nutt. The program wasn’t only in trouble on the court, but off of it, as grades plummeted and NCAA sanctions were on its way.
Texas State turned it around the next season, tripling its win total (nine) and slowly crept its way out of academic probation. The Bobcats finished one game out of the SLC tournament in 2007-08, but have made back-to-back trips to Katy in each of the last two seasons.
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