KaneFan29 said:

Congrats on standing up for such a standup UTEP football player like Tyrin Smith. Tried to transfer once and then quit after 4 games before transferring again. Must be very proud. Back to the subject

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Vegas Miner said:

I just reread your archival thread and I'm actually kind of proud that I stood up for one of our student athletes. Whatever transpired after is moot because non of us were privy to the actual reason he went "missing'.

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KaneFan29 said:

Remember when Vegas Miner backed up Tyrin Smith?
Post in thread 'Tyrin Smith NIL @ UTEP?'
https://utep.forums.rivals.com/threads/tyrin-smith-nil-utep.12166/post-240269

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Vegas Miner said:

Realistic? Your stance is finding the dark cloud to any silver lining the fan base grabs onto in these dire times. And I might add, shooting off your mouth with as much negative "realisms" as you can pull out of your ass.

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KaneFan29 said:

Sure bud. I am realistic, sorry that you’re not. I’ve already explained my stance to people like you over the years. Sorry Mike Price and Tim Floyd don’t coach here no more.

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STexMiner said:

To be brutally honest, if we get invited to a new conference, it has nothing to do with market size or success. It's because some conference needs enough warm bodies to fulfill NCAA requirements.

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dementiajoe said:

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https://www.foxbusiness.com/politic...ld-more-than-500k-visa-stock-ahead-doj-action

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STexMiner said:

To be brutally honest, if we get invited to a new conference, it has nothing to do with market size or success. It's because some conference needs enough warm bodies to fulfill NCAA requirements.

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Vegas Miner said:

I'm referring to you pointing out that Utah State's Demo is bigger than UTEP's. Anything that we come in second to, gives you Trolls a hard-on.

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KaneFan29 said:

What is UTEP losing out on exactly?

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Vegas Miner said:

Makes you happy that UTEP loses out again, doesn't it. Keep on Trolling FakeFan29.

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KaneFan29 said:

Utah St is about an hour drive from SLC and you can imagine that a large number of USU grads end up living/working in SLC once they’re done.

What’s within an hour of El Paso? Juarez, Alamogordo and Las Cruces. Whoopdee doo.

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nattybry said:

Wondering why fans aren’t at least somewhat yet hesitantly optimistic.

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KaneFan29 said:

Miners need to be 7-1 or 8-0 going into the Louisville game and then not losing that game by more than 10 points for me to even think about getting excited.

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nattybry said:

The market size is based on tvs too and the Lee is a large number of spanish speaking families living in in one house and this reduces the number of tvs watching English programming. Or something like that I’ve heard. Also yes, it should be a region of almost 3 million, but they don’t count it like that unfortunately.

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nattybry said:

Wondering why fans aren’t at least somewhat yet hesitantly optimistic. Is it, because Golding didn’t get a quality 6-7 ish swing transfer and shooters or we just don’t believe in Golding anymore? For me I’m slightly excited, cause we made a run in the tourney. However im very cautious to have even the slightest bit of optimism.

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Hollywoodminer said:

what ever league we might get into must have other Texas teams to continue our recruiting efforts. If MW wants to "get" another Texas team then I would suggest getting very serious with them, however, if the PAC 8 can get another Texas team to join then "BINGO" that our new home.
Otherwise, stay in CUSA.

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Vegas Miner said:

When it comes to analyzing a school for Conference affiliation the numbers that seem to matter the most are probably Market size (El Paso is 98) and Brand. Our Market size unfortunately does not include Ft. Bliss (or Juarez and maybe Las Cruces) so we are probably automatically tossed out. Brand-wise we are historically pretty good but our brand is a bit tarnished because of lack of on-field and on-court success in subsequent years. That said, the Pac 12 picking Utah State contradicts everything!

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FiliUTEP said:

How is UNLV in debt? If it's in debt how can they still have sports??

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