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Jeff Traylor relaxed, motivated by life as UTSA head coach
UTSA head football coach Jeff Traylor using life lessons learned at Gilmer High School to help the Roadrunners to their best season in program history.
EL PASO – The UTSA football team is eating breakfast and head coach Jeff Traylor is holding court. He stops by most of the breakfast tables at the Radisson Hotel a mile from the El Paso airport to say good morning and exchange the occasional joke or jab. The Roadrunners, undefeated and ranked for the first time in program history, are in town to take on a surging UTEP program.
The moment lacks any stress. Traylor is relaxed, as most of us would be days after receiving a contract extension through 2031 worth $28 million. The players joke and smile at their tables organized by position. The university president walks by without much fanfare. This is a team locked and loaded on winning the day. One of the three pillars in Traylor’s 2-1-0 Triangle of Toughness.
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