UTSA coach hilariously tries to escape celebration shower, ends up in dogpile

UTSA caput manager Jeff Traylor astir had a cleanable nighttime successful his squad’s ascendant 57-20 triumph implicit Florida International astatine the First Responder Bowl astatine Gerald J. Ford Stadium connected Friday. 

Why wasn’t it a cleanable nighttime for Traylor? He couldn’t debar getting drenched. 

Traylor, 57, knew what was coming arsenic the timepiece was winding down successful the 4th quarter: He was astir to get doused with h2o from his players. So the caput manager took disconnected toward the extremity of the sideline, hoping to flight the oncoming shower.

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UTSA Roadrunners caput manager Jeff Traylor tries to tally distant from UTSA Roadrunners wide receiver Jamel Hardy (13) to debar a Gatorade bath aft the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl betwixt the FIU Panthers and the UTSA Roadrunners astatine Gerald J. Ford Stadium successful Dallas, Texas, connected Dec. 26, 2025. (Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The effort to flight was futile arsenic Traylor made it to the extremity of the sideline, turned around, and saw wide receiver Jamel Hardy Jr. coming aft him. Traylor was held up by a newsman and past got drenched. 

In a last-ditch effort to debar the water, Traylor fell down onto the Servpro mat by the sideline, which ended up being costly. Traylor was mobbed by his players and recovered himself astatine the bottommost of an impromptu dogpile, creating a hilarious scene. 

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UTSA Roadrunners caput manager Jeff Traylor gets a Gatorade bath from UTSA Roadrunners wide receiver Jamel Hardy (13) aft the SERVPRO First Responder Bowl betwixt the FIU Panthers and the UTSA Roadrunners astatine Gerald J. Ford Stadium successful Dallas, Texas, connected Dec. 26, 2025. (Matthew Pearce/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

While astatine the bottommost of the dogpile, Traylor got different bucket of h2o dumped connected him by antiaircraft lineman Kaian Roberts-Day. 

Aside from unsuccessfully evading his players successful celebration, Traylor had a bully night. UTSA won handily successful its sixth consecutive vessel appearance. 

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FIU went up 14-0 early, but UTSA stormed backmost to necktie astatine 14-all earlier the archetypal 4th ended, and they ne'er looked back. 

UTSA had a 310-93 vantage successful full yards successful the archetypal half. Quarterback Owen McCown threw 3 touchdown passes, and moving backmost Will Henderson III scored 3 times arsenic well. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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