Game vs. Southern University is special for UTSA coach Frank Wilson

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Saturday's game against the Southern University Jaguars at the Alamodome will have special meaning for UTSA coach Frank Wilson.

A native of New Orleans, Wilson has a keen sense of history when it comes to the football programs at Southern, Grambling State and other historically black colleges that compete in the tradition-rich Southwestern Athletic Conference.

Three of Wilson's uncles and six cousins played for the legendary Eddie Robinson at Grambling.
Wilson, 43, often would attend preseason workouts at Grambling in the summers as a youth. He recalled going to his first Grambling game at Tiger Stadium at 6 years old.

Wilson said he was in awe of Robinson.

"I remember walking into Coach Rob's office he would say to me, 'Come on over here. Hey son, come on in here.'"

"He talked like that when he talked," Wilson continued, mimicking Robinson's Southern drawl. "I shook his hand and he put me on his knee. I was just like (wow)."

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