The issue is not the conference. It is definitely an upgrade for UTEP. The issue is that it is a better conference and we finished 9th and 8th in a crappy one. We have the same coach, which either knows he is a lame duck, or was given a 3 year extension that was not publicly announced because the Athletic Director would be thrown out on his ear in any normal world. (well it's UTEP so he would probably be given a 3 yr extension as well).
If Bronzing was given the extension, we will win less than 10 games every year in the MWC till he is gone. If he is gone after this year, his only incentive is to try and build a team to win CUSA (which he can't because he has never proven he can) to try and get an extension, then get pummeled in the MWC with an undermanned terribly prepared team.
The smartest thing UTEP could have done was get rid of him now, and have a coach that is preparing for the move. Bronzing is going to bury us so deep that this team will take forever to recover. We will be a permanent bottom dweller for years to come.
If you look at it rationally, this is quite depressing. There is no good way to look at this besides the fact that we are in a much better conference, but so badly prepared for it, that the basketball team is going to be at its lowest at any point that I can ever remember in the last 50 years or so. Of course, Bronzing, Senter and Wilson have led us to this nadir, but this is not the lowest it’s going to get. That is the most depressing part of this whole thing.
