have no fear, Mountain Mamma Miners by 12 ...

UTEP should win. No let up. Keep some consistency. Play tough and keep scoring.

UTEP 75
SHSU 65

KaneFan29 said:

Due to UNLV’s location, they can be bad at sports. I don’t think the majority of them feel entitled. From what I have read, UNLV chose to remain in the MWC, due to economic reasons. The Pac 12 would definitely take them at this point, assuming it were possible.

What if UTEP had told the MWC, “we can’t afford it, no thanks”? We would be upset about it too. There’s not 1 smart UTEP fan that wouldn’t want to be in the Pac 12. It’s clearly better than the MWC.

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Wait, what? Chose to remain for economic reasons? True.

But "take them as this point"? No.

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Wonder what share UTEP would get if this holds true.

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UNLV fans biatching will be quietly silenced by this solid MAC program. Scotty and Golding need to up their game and no more boilerplate excuses that UTEP has relied on for 15 years.

Dmanminer said:

Fili, think of it this way: You are renting a house, throwing a party, do you have to invite your landlord?

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Can I use this for my real estate reports?😆

kickballpro said:

The Haskins Center once hosted NCAA Tournament games. Now it’s completely obsolete for that purpose.

Once the NCAA expands the playoff, which they will, it will eventually go to 14, then 16, 24 and 32. There is just too much money to be made.

I agree with you on 100%, which is why they need to start planning their survival strategy now.

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If they do expand it will just be with more on campus games. They really can’t expect fans to keep traveling to multiple sites with short turnaround times.

There are several bowls ahead of the Sun in stature. Having a supped up Sun Bowl is highly unlikely to draw a hypothetical game. Even then, you think it’s a wise move to throw money at it to get 1 game? Which would just be replacing the bowl game.

The Sun Bowl is successful because it’s on NYE or so every year. A playoff game would be a few weeks before that. Would it affect attendance? I don’t know.

I’m all for being proactive, I just think it’s ridiculous to think El Paso would jump bowls in San Antonio, Orlando, or LA.

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SHSU 57

UTEP 68
SHSU 56

FiliUTEP said:

The only junk I'm hearing is people saying Utep has nothing to do with the Sun Bowl. Those are the trolls. That's like saying the Cinderella Castle has nothing to do with Walt Disney World.

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Fili, think of it this way: You are renting a house, throwing a party, do you have to invite your landlord?

kickballpro said:

The Sun Bowl needs to look into the future and see how they can position itself to host the opening round of the College Football Playoff.

Eventually, it will be ultra monetized like March Madness. There will be bidding for host sites, brackets will have regions for Travel purposes of fan bases, seeding and selection will get figured out, it will expand teams, the dates will be moved, etc…

The 12 team playoff is the tip of the iceberg.

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The only way the Sun Bowl would host is if UTEP was in it. The first round is held at the higher seeded host. There would be no change if they expanded, there would just be more teams that would be able to play at home for the 1st round.

One day we will talk about (again) El Paso missing out on opportunities by not being forward thinkers

dementiajoe said:

Unless the playoffs are expanded beyond 12 teams, there’s no way in hell El Paso hosts a first round game, and not until the Sun Bowl undergoes a major renovation or rebuild.

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The Haskins Center once hosted NCAA Tournament games. Now it’s completely obsolete for that purpose.

Once the NCAA expands the playoff, which they will, it will eventually go to 14, then 16, 24 and 32. There is just too much money to be made.

I agree with you on 100%, which is why they need to start planning their survival strategy now.

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Wonder what share UTEP would get if this holds true.

kickballpro said:

The Sun Bowl needs to look into the future and see how they can position itself to host the opening round of the College Football Playoff.

Eventually, it will be ultra monetized like March Madness. There will be bidding for host sites, brackets will have regions for Travel purposes of fan bases, seeding and selection will get figured out, it will expand teams, the dates will be moved, etc…

The 12 team playoff is the tip of the iceberg.

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Unless the playoffs are expanded beyond 12 teams, there’s no way in hell El Paso hosts a first round game, and not until the Sun Bowl undergoes a major renovation or rebuild.

FiliUTEP said:

The only junk I'm hearing is people saying Utep has nothing to do with the Sun Bowl. Those are the trolls. That's like saying the Cinderella Castle has nothing to do with Walt Disney World.

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The Sun Bowl needs to look into the future and see how they can position itself to host the opening round of the College Football Playoff.

Eventually, it will be ultra monetized like March Madness. There will be bidding for host sites, brackets will have regions for Travel purposes of fan bases, seeding and selection will get figured out, it will expand teams, the dates will be moved, etc…

The 12 team playoff is the tip of the iceberg.

LOL I always confuse Reno with Utah St. I stand corrected.

Crickets from all the aggy fanboys on this site.

NMSU moves as fast as a geriatric pistolero.

picks up said:

I'm pretty sure that we know exactly the way they're feeling as it has happened to us about 3 or 4 times already. It sucks for them but they're loss is our gain.

One thing that I find amusing on X is that Washington State and Oregon State fans are constantly crapping in the new MWC now. They're the UTEP of G5. They were left behind and now think they're the coolest G5s on the country. It must suck for them to go from eating steak to eating bologna.

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I think the difference is UNLV said no, or allegedly “couldn’t afford to”. We here, were never invited anywhere when the others left.

Yeah, the OSU and WSU are a funny bunch. They both sucked against new MWC teams in football this year and I think I saw OSU lost to Loyola Marymount in WCC play by 20 the other day.

KaneFan29 said:

How would you be feeling if we were all UNLV fans at this point? All the “good” teams left and basically “we” decided not to follow them.

The MWC replaced San Diego, Boise, Fresno, Colorado St, and Utah St with Hawaii, UTEP, GCU, UCDavis, and NIU. 1 group is clearly better than the other. Not to mention the other group added Gonzaga.

Instead of playing Gonzaga and San Diego St in basketball, they’re playing UC Davis and Hawaii in 2 seasons.

The way that we felt when CUSA was down to 5 teams and added all the schools there now, is how they all feel

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I'm pretty sure that we know exactly the way they're feeling as it has happened to us about 3 or 4 times already. It sucks for them but they're loss is our gain.

One thing that I find amusing on X is that Washington State and Oregon State fans are constantly crapping in the new MWC now. They're the UTEP of G5. They were left behind and now think they're the coolest G5s on the country. It must suck for them to go from eating steak to eating bologna.

utep2step said:

Dear UNLV fans, you had two good seasons in football, congrats. Your basketball is nowhere the perennial top program it once was. Now settle down.

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Due to UNLV’s location, they can be bad at sports. I don’t think the majority of them feel entitled. From what I have read, UNLV chose to remain in the MWC, due to economic reasons. The Pac 12 would definitely take them at this point, assuming it were possible.

What if UTEP had told the MWC, “we can’t afford it, no thanks”? We would be upset about it too. There’s not 1 smart UTEP fan that wouldn’t want to be in the Pac 12. It’s clearly better than the MWC.