I think the one thing we all have, especially on this board is hope. Us and those old school season ticket holders are suckers with our support and (sometimes) optimistic view of UTEP athletics. But the longer conference realignment goes and the more we get passed up this new dog eat dog world of college athletics is showing us that this Athletic Department, coaches and players aren’t capable of hanging. And you’re right… 60 years of futility and bad hires has lead us to this point. And the fact that presidents like Natalicio and Wilson accept it, and we as fans accept it is disgusting. We are getting what we deserve.
I’ve been trying to tell you guys for years, not to accept mediocrity and losing. Now it’s an issue? Golding would have been fired already if I were AD. Dimel would have been gone after 2022.
It’s not the coaches or players fault, only the athletic department. We kept Price, Floyd, Kugler, and Dimel too long because of fans that kept buying season tickets. “One more year”, “Wait until next year” “The Calvary is coming”. UTEP made the wrong hire, every single time. Even if UTEP made the correct hires, we still might be in the same situation.
