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Like I said, screw it lean into the cholo angle. HBCUs have their thing and they embrace it. Let’s go ahead and be the cholo school. I’d honestly prefer some Kid Frost instead of lame ass Journey.
I mean it is part of El Paso's culture, I'm good with "El Chuco" I wouldn't use the term, but there is nothing wrong with it IMO.

Report: UTEP on the precipice of joining the Mountain West

Where else does the admin get money other than from the community which plays a part. Can't all be relying on major doners/boosters like a broke kid asking for a handout.

Support ($$ to buy tickets even if the product sucks) goes both ways. It's an investment. It seems like a poor investment to most, but you want something nice? Put the time and money into it.

Regular alumni don't care, no one wants to buy tickets because "the product is poor". If this isn't an advertisement for "you get what you pay for" as in having a Dimel or Walden, idk what is
I agree to a point and really feel the community supports, 40k to watch FCS vs FCS?? The community is not the problem, it’s UTEP’s job to put a product worth investing in. (We’re talking football)

It’s the fact that UTEP has put such a poor product that Senter has messed this up by not adding more major donors or boosters or corporate sponsorship and has had two major chances to entice fans to come but his coaches suck and get whipped in front of big crowds so yes they need to keep asking for handouts because honestly Senter doesn’t deserve any support from the fans with the products he puts on the football field and completely ignored the fans and hired who he wanted to hire instead of the guy fans wanted.

You’re asking a community with a median income of $44,431 to support an inferior product priced super high in both basketball and football, the average EP UTEP fan will pick going out to eat or go get drunk at a family members crib before picking to go to the SB to watch mighty Sam Houston State or Kennesaw State. All end zone tickets could be 10 bones. We are not Austin, Houston, Dallas when it comes to income and alumni base here in EP. El Paso is not a legit sports town anymore like it was in the early 2000’s, it’s a family event and chill at the crib or bar to watch sports town. UTEP has to earn that back in my opinion.

I think the fans do their part, this admin and previous admins haven’t done shit and that is a big concern I have going forward.

Report: UTEP on the precipice of joining the Mountain West

The community steps up when they can that’s a non issue for me, it’s not the responsibility of the community but the responsibility of the administration to step up and support the coaches and athletes with money.
Where else does the admin get money other than from the community which plays a part. Can't all be relying on major doners/boosters like a broke kid asking for a handout.

Support ($$ to buy tickets even if the product sucks) goes both ways. It's an investment. It seems like a poor investment to most, but you want something nice? Put the time and money into it.

Regular alumni don't care, no one wants to buy tickets because "the product is poor". If this isn't an advertisement for "you get what you pay for" as in having a Dimel or Walden, idk what is
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Report: UTEP on the precipice of joining the Mountain West

Time for the Administration and the community to step up their support of UTEP athletics.
The community steps up when they can that’s a non issue for me, it’s not the responsibility of the community but the responsibility of the administration to step up and support the coaches and athletes with money.

Everyone is popping champagne over this, but yet no one in the media will press Senter about committing resources and money. to becoming legit in football which is the only way success will happen in a new conference. Basketball is in a good place and Golding is primed to do well this year, but football is close to 1990’s UTEP football production and desperately needs cash pumped in so we don’t hire the Dimel’s and Walden’s of the CFB world and if we do make terrible hires like these at least we have cash to hire legit assistants instead of bringing along FCS level assistants. UTEP is way behind most in MWC in terms of football and will be swimming upstream if Senter doesn’t do his job better.

New MWC Possibility:

UNLV just missed the tournament last year and has a better team this year. They always schedule OOC extremely tough. Their net ranking and SOS will be very high. They will most likely make the tournament this coming year. They will be strong even with the departure of the others. One could argue they may be better than Nevada right now.

Secondly, they may be the best non P4 football team and may make the playoff. The MW is very lucky they did not leave for the PAC 12.
We are lucky they didn’t. The MWC would have been fine without them

New MWC Possibility:

SDSU, Boise State, Utah State and Colorado St. definitely were big loses Basketball wise. UNM and Nevada are really all that’s left Basketball wise and UNLV is middle of the pack. It could be a 2 bid type of league though, we’ll see.
UNLV just missed the tournament last year and has a better team this year. They always schedule OOC extremely tough. Their net ranking and SOS will be very high. They will most likely make the tournament this coming year. They will be strong even with the departure of the others. One could argue they may be better than Nevada right now.

Secondly, they may be the best non P4 football team and may make the playoff. The MW is very lucky they did not leave for the PAC 12.

New MWC Possibility:

Mountain West will still have 3 solid basketball programs that should be in the NCAA tournament with the departures:
UNLV- has been building a solid team and has a tough OOC schedule
New Mexico- should be a top 15 program with the recruiting
Nevada

The issue will be the strength of schedule will go down not playing the 4 strong schools that left, and playing UTEP twice.
Yeah, but NET and computer rankings don’t account for bias and history. If those schools and UTEP have good OOC, that’s all that matters. UTEP sucks because they go on multiple 6 game losing streaks during the season.
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New MWC Possibility:

Mountain West will still have 3 solid basketball programs that should be in the NCAA tournament with the departures:
UNLV- has been building a solid team and has a tough OOC schedule
New Mexico- should be a top 15 program with the recruiting
Nevada

The issue will be the strength of schedule will go down not playing the 4 strong schools that left, and playing UTEP twice.

New MWC Possibility:

Don’t think the basketball will suck this year and still believe Walden will get it going next year, but I get your apathy for sure!
A couple of guys I know have said good things about what they have seen in practice. Really Golding has a veteran team, so expectations should be fairly high. Bynum and Barnes are key in my opinion. CUSA is set to be tougher than last year overall. Hopefully, the league can pull off some early season wins, but realistically it will all come down to the tournament again.
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