Texas State’s 2010 football schedule includes six home games, including five within a span of seven weeks. The Bobcats will open at Houston and close at Sam Houston State, with their first home game on Sept. 11 against Southern Arkansas and their last coming on Nov. 6 against Central Arkansas.

Texas State announced Tuesday morning that it has signed head football coach Brad Wright to a three-year contract extension. The university also extended the contracts of four other coaches.

Texas State’s athletic department awarded 20 of its athletes with “T” rings in a ceremony last Friday in the end zone complex at Bobcat Stadium.

All is quiet on the public front between Texas State football coach Brad Wright and athletic director Larry Teis after the coach’s blow-up about his contractual situation started a round of media statements between them.

Texas State’s athletic department will hold its season ticket pick-up for fall sports on Aug. 1 at Bobcat Stadium.

Texas State’s athletic department has announced that only five of 15 luxury suites being built at Bobcat Stadium remain available for the 2009 football season.

With five conference championships this school year, Texas State was awarded the Commissioner’s Cup by the Southland Conference. The Bobcats have won the trophy for overall excellence within the league for the fourth time. Texas State also won the women’s All-Sports Trophy for the ninth straight time and for the 11th time overall.

Texas State Athletic Director Larry Teis published an open letter on the school’s athletic website touting the athletic department’s accomplishments this spring and, by extension, during the entire school year.

The NCAA Division I Committee on Athletics Certification announced that Texas State’s Department of Athletics has been certified as operating its athletics program in “substantial conformity with operating principles adopted by the Division I membership.”

Texas State has announced an 11-game football schedule for 2009, including six home games, a refurbished Bobcat Stadium and a tough stretch at the end.