UTSA's Athletic Director talks straight!

"[W]e are a multimillion - dollar business..."

"Sponsorship deal at UTSA draws scrutiny"

Adapted from: Melissa Ludwig, EXPRESS - NEWS staff writer. Monday, August 27, 2007.

"In the lobby of the multidisciplinary building at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a Pepsi rumbled down the chute of a veding machine on its way to Gerardo Guillen, an 18 - year - old freshman from Roosevelt High School.

"On the machine, Guillen noticed a likeness of the school's mascot, Rowdy the Roadrunner, superimposed on a Pepsi can.

"That combination is the result of a $190,000 - a - year corporate sponsorship contract geving Pepsi exclusive rights on the 28,000 student campus.

It's weird because you come here for an education and you are being sold a bunch of different things, Guillen said.

But it doesn't bother me..."