Mark Soto leaves a second home in San Marcos

There were only a handful of jobs in San Antonio that Mark Soto would have taken. The Johnson Jaguars were one of the few.

Soto drove about 100 miles a day to commute to and from his job as athletic director and head football coach of the San Marcos Rattlers for eight years. He lives in San Antonio but never wanted to take a job there unless there was a place with just as much potential for growth as San Marcos.

“There are some really good families (in San Marcos),” Soto said. “The community is really good here. You could tell these were good kids, that they were being raised the right way.”