
Catching up with Roadrunner legend Frank Harris.
SAN ANTONIO — I launched a fun new little segment this summer called a ‘Vinnie Visit’. The idea is hopefully simple, but effective. We want to catch up with a local sports face each week for a quick interview and visit. We’ll discuss life in general, mixed in with some fun facts, too! Hopefully, from the San Antonio Spurs to college sports to the high school ranks and everything in between, all sports-related. That’s the goal anyway!
My first ‘Vinnie Visit’ was with a face and name that surely most everyone around San Antonio would recognize. And that’s former UTSA Roadrunner QB Frank Harris! Here we go!
Vinnie: Frank update everyone on what you are doing these days?
Frank: Now I’m commercial real estate working with Llano Realty Partners. We’re a commercial brokerage firm right here in San Antonio by the airport. I’m enjoying what I’m doing and loving every minute of it.
Vinnie: Let’s talk some football. The guy that replaced you, Owen McCown, he looks like he’s got this thing well under control. What have you made of his effort so far?
Frank: He’s doing a great job, especially when he first came in. I tried to take him under my wing, and he listened. Of course his father and his uncle, he has lots of football in his family. I always respected how much he listened. He never tried to bicker back. He’s a great guy, great player and I’m excited for him.
Vinnie: But you’re still better, right?
Frank: (Laughing and smiling at the camera).
Vinnie: You made so many great plays, and I remember many of them, but is there one play in your career that stands out over any other?
Frank: For sure! I would probably say my cousin, my primo, Oscar Cardenas. The tipped pass (against UAB) or the one against North Texas where he caught it one handed. You could literally name any Oscar play and it is going to be everybody’s favorite in San Antonio if you follow UTSA Football. He’s a legend for that. It will probably go down as the greatest ever in UTSA Football history as a play, and it turned our program around.
Vinnie: And the tipped pass was for the conference championship, right?
Frank: That is legendary right there. It literally won us a conference championship. We went in there and said we’d have a snap go down low, and I’m gonna throw it short and it is gonna get tipped and he catches it like that. Everything was planned out like that. (Laughing and smiling).
Vinnie: Love it, love it, love it. Frank, thanks for the time and congratulations on everything.
Frank: Yes sir!
And that is my first ever ‘Vinnie Visit.’
Vinnie Vinzetta is a sports multimedia journalist and anchor for KENS 5 in San Antonio, Texas. He joined the KENS 5 Sports team in July 2011. His previous six years were spent at KENS 5’s sister station KMSB in Tucson, Arizona, where he was sports director. Before that, Vinnie spent eight years in Lubbock working for the NBC affiliate, and then, in his last three years, at the FOX station, where he was sports director as well.