Bet you a dinner at Great American than Senter isn’t going anywhere
Did I, or anyone else on this board, ever say that Senter
would be fired? I've never said that, nor have I seen anyone else on this forum say it. I, and several others, have said that Senter
should be fired. There's a huge difference. Senter will likely return as AD next year, despite the fact that he shouldn't, so I would be a sucker to take that bet.
I have realized, by reading several of your recent posts over multiple threads, what kind of fan you are. I originally thought that you were the overly optimistic fan who thought the Miners were always going to win and that our coaches were the greatest coaches to ever walk the Earth. This impression was wrong. Instead, your a fan who thinks little of the school ("we're just UTEP"), one who thinks that it's valid to use our conference as an excuse, and one who under estimates our position ("we don't have the resources"). I have a very different point of view:
- Have some damned pride in your school. This disdain you have for the school you cheer for is reprehensible. No wonder you call basketball victories over winless teams and NAIA opponents "good wins." You’re amazed that we can even compete with them. And "just UTEP" has had some fantastic basketball teams before, not only under Haskins, but under Gillispie, Sadler, and Barbee as well. While football success has been more rare, Stull, Nord (1st year), and Price (1st two years) were able to able to compete in conference.
- You could try to make the argument that our conference affiliation hurts us if we performed well in conference but struggled against OOC competition. But we struggle mightily against CUSA competition as well. The ADs of all the other CUSA schools have to hire to, and the coaches of all those schools have to recruit to, CUSA. Why is it, in your mind, only a handicap for UTEP? However, I don't even buy the argument that being in CUSA means that we can't be competitive against higher level competition. Just look at the FAU Men's Basketball Team a couple of years ago as an example.
- This whole "we don't have the resources" thing is BS as well. Please compare our facilities against those of the rest of the conference. Then compare our athletic budget against those of the rest of the conference. You'll find that our resources compare very favorably to our conference mates. Yet you don't have any expectations that UTEP should compete for championships. Instead you're satisfied with losing seasons in football as long as we have some good individual players, and, as stated above, consider basketball victories over weak competition to be "good wins."
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