JCorona said:

Just because most teams in our conference play in outdated, run down arenas doesn’t mean we have to follow suit.

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Yeah but we are getting that 100 million $ face-lift 🤑

Check out the empty seats vs USAO. Nothing better than watching a game at the Don with 10,000 empty seats. Great atmosphere.

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The Texas Longhorns played a game in 2021 and 2022 in their volleyball gym, but yeah UTEP is too good to play a home game outside the DHC.

Minerinciter said:

The Miners did play some of their home games at the County Coliseum back in the late 1960s through mid 70s.

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I guess that's because back then the DHC (former Special Events Center) wasn't built yet.

MinerManiac said:

Pickles didn't get a chance to pass much, but when Scotty finally relented out of necessity, what i saw did not look good. Locklear has not played well at all this season, but based on the very small sample size I've seen from Pickles, Pickles is the better runner, Locklear is the better passer (which is sad). I do think that Locklear gives us a better chance to win, which isn't saying much. Hopefully Pickles comes out and looks spectacular on Saturday and makes me eat my words, but I'm not holding my breath.

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Pickles family went on Twitter/X after last week's game stating that's all he did in high school which explains his recruitment for CS RPO.

However, you have to be able to throw a decent contolled ball at the FBS level. I say controlled because we saw two opposite ends of the spectrum under Dimel with Locksley and Hardison. One was often off target and the other threw a 100 mph fast ball on a dink and dunk pass.

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I know it was only the spring game, but I did like some things I saw in Pickles. Maybe more real game time experience will help, but I would love to see "if" Shay can play.

Pickles didn't get a chance to pass much, but when Scotty finally relented out of necessity, what i saw did not look good. Locklear has not played well at all this season, but based on the very small sample size I've seen from Pickles, Pickles is the better runner, Locklear is the better passer (which is sad). I do think that Locklear gives us a better chance to win, which isn't saying much. Hopefully Pickles comes out and looks spectacular on Saturday and makes me eat my words, but I'm not holding my breath.

FiliUTEP said:

What do you think now??

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For the basketball hire I was all for either Golding or Tang, so I don't fault him for the Golding hire. But I think that he has given Golding too long a leash, I would have fired him after having a losing record against Div 1 competition last year. Golding has this season to prove me wrong, hopefully he does so. If Golding doesn't have an outstanding season this year he needs to get the axe.

I knew nothing of Walden coming in, but things did seem positive upon his hire. On paper he appears to be a good recruiter (the proof will be how well his recruits play on the field). So far I am very unimpressed with his offense and play calling. It is too early, in my opinion, to call for his head, but if things don't improve significantly each year he definitely shouldn't make it past year 3. Hopefully Walden proves that Senter made the right hire, but so far things don't look good.

One last, very important note: a key job of an AD is fundraising. From everything that I've heard Senter has done a terrible job at this. That is another reason to fire him and replace him with someone more competent.

I realize that the ultimate goal is for a school like us is to make the NCAA Tournament, and the only way to do that in a conference like ours, unless you have a season like FAU did a couple of years ago, is to win the conference tournament. That said, the only reason that conference tournaments exist is a cash and recognition grab. Otherwise it makes no sense that a conference champion is determined by which team gets lucky over a three or four game stretch rather than who has the best record after playing everyone home and away all conference season. Winning the conference tournament may be more important, but winning the regular season title is more impressive. Should Golding win the regular season title he certainly deserves to stay, and a case can be made if he finishes in the top two or three. Finishing with another losing record record against Div 1 competition again should earn him a ticket on the first bus out of El Paso, provided he doesn't pull off some miracle in the tournament.

Trump odds are now at -200.

The Miners did play some of their home games at the County Coliseum back in the late 1960s through mid 70s.

Another idea would be to play at Eastwood. It seats 2,000. It would be something different.

utep1966 said:

It was real cool when Arkansas and Texas played at Fort Bliss.

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What’s the size of the gym ?

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picks up said:

For me it's not about any of that. Not that Don is a modern day 5 star facility but the coliseum is an absolute dump.

If you're looking for something different, I would like to see something like this in Fort Bliss. I think they have a a small gym that they can pack 1000 soldiers in. This could maybe attract some of them to attend some real games. This could yield more potential than the coliseum in my opinion.

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It was real cool when Arkansas and Texas played at Fort Bliss.

KaneFan29 said:

But he made a bowl game last year! And the year before that!
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Baylor has a little more money than UTEP.

KaneFan29 said:

Unless you’re attending every single home game and walk to the games from Kern Place, I don’t see how trying something different, one time, is that bad of an idea.

There’s 3 non-D1 games, they’re going to be sparsely attended. UTEP could host one of them at the Coliseum. Some fans will still go, maybe some other fans will go because it’s something different. Would it work? I don’t know. UTEP could do all sorts of special things to make a normally drab game, an event.

Worst case scenario is that it’s a small financial failure. It’s trying something different. The atmosphere at the DHC is closer to the opera than a big time basketball game now.

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For me it's not about any of that. Not that Don is a modern day 5 star facility but the coliseum is an absolute dump.

If you're looking for something different, I would like to see something like this in Fort Bliss. I think they have a a small gym that they can pack 1000 soldiers in. This could maybe attract some of them to attend some real games. This could yield more potential than the coliseum in my opinion.

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TxRdKiller said:

60 million per year for a so-so quarterback. not to mention something like 34 million per year for a decent wide receiver. neither of which will get the cowgirls a super bowl win without tons more help.

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No worries. Jerry will fire Mccarthy when this is ALL his fault.

60 million per year for a so-so quarterback. not to mention something like 34 million per year for a decent wide receiver. neither of which will get the cowgirls a super bowl win without tons more help.