Whenever Powerball or Mega Millions have climbed over a billion I've thought of how much I would donate to UTEP athletics to help get us to the upper echelon of college athletics. Like would five million help? Ten million? Fifty million? Five hundred million if the lottery was over a billion?

How much would you donate to UTEP if you won a BILLION dollar Powerball or Mega Millions lottery?

Next up is a road swing to Kennesaw State and Jacksonville State. Last time we lost to Jax St at home and barely beat Kennesaw St in the Don. While I wouldn't be surprised if we swept this trip, given our ability to sometimes play well, I certainly don't expect it; a split or being swept are both more likely. I'm going to go with a split, with us barely beating Kennesaw St - again.

UTEP 72
Kennesaw St 71

The Miners are now 7-6 in league play. By any definition that is a mediocre record, and we play in a mediocre league. We are nothing more than a mediocre team.

The worst part is that this is Golding's peak here at UTEP. Among his main rotation are five seniors, seniors that he's been able to keep here for multiple seasons, including our best player, Frazier (even if he didn't play like it tonight). If Golding stays he will have to rebuild the team, and he has proven incapable of bringing in the required number of contributors in a single recruiting year. It won't get any better than this while he's the coach, and this just isn't good enough. He obviously gets to coach until the last game of this season, but after that I hope that this misery ends and he's sent walking.

As for the next coach, since Hasins left we're 3 for 4 when hiring a hot shot assistant, on 0 for 3 when hiring a proven coach. Maybe we should go back to the previous formula.

Shitty way to start the day with the news in Europe. Gas prices soaring at the moment, stocks crashing and a lot of uncertainty. Do y'all thing this has the potential to turn into ww3?

Here's the bottom line... all colleges have different themes for every home game so saying "don't do themes, just win" isn't an option.

I've seen many gripes here about military night and Chuco Night, etc.

Military/ Heroes night is always going to happen. Every team had done them since as far back as I remember.... but what theme nights do you LEGITIMATELY think would be successful? Are we just spoiled for "give me free stuff"?

So what are your ideas?

just curious to gage your thoughts what El Paso can realistically land in the future. the El Paso Chihuahuahus are now entering it's 5th season and has been a tremendous succes. Top Golf just recently opened as well. Mountians Star Sports also just announced a new pro soccer team in hopes of luring MLS down the road. Of course we know what's going with the quality of Life bonds and the Arena fiasco. Unfortunately we also had no chance in landing Amazon's second headquarters.

So with last night's split won/loss doubleheader in Albuquerque last night, the Chihuahuas will have their first losing season in team history. A disappointing season to be sure, coming off the cancelled 2020 season and an almost entirely new roster for 2021. Despite that, it's still an enjoyable atmosphere at Southwest University Park. I know the parent MLB clubs can care less about wins, losses, division and league championships in the minor leagues. It's all about player development for The Show. But hopefully the Chihuahuas will rebound in 2022.

Although the Chihuahuas have yet to release their 2022 schedule, they will begin the season on the road April 5th at Round Rock. The first homestand will be April 12th against Oklahoma City.

Would we be ok with UTEP jumping ship if the new MWC looked something like this? I have UNLV and Air Force leaving in this example.

New MWC:

West:

San Jose St

Nevada

Sacramento St.

Utah St.

Wyoming

Hawaii

East:

UNM

NMSU

UTEP

Texas St.

La Tech

N. Dakota St.

Carry on.

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Ok, hopefully the thread, and title, appease both NoWins and randaddy.

This so called USMNT B team is struggling. If Qatar could finish, they’d be up 3 or 4-0.

Did I mention Arriola doesn’t belong on the field right now. His technique has been rendered null and void by Qatar’s speed. It’s like he’s running in quicksand. Put Zardes in with Dike and move Hoppe over to replace Arriola.

Anybody else watching?

This thread could serve as a place to post any offers UTEP makes. I know there have been several since Dimel took over. If I’m missing any feel free to add them. As new offers go out we can post them here and see which ones commit when it’s all said and done.

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According to this article, Walden is expected to hire Montana State Defensive Coordinator Bobby Daly as our next Defensive Coordinator.

via @ESPN App http://espn.com/app

The only one who can fix this is Heather Wilson. Right now her athletic department is run by the worst AD in D1. Everyday Senter is employed the situation is only going to get worse. This is all on Wilson now. She has an AD who isn't a leader, can't fundraiser, thinks small and makes terrible hires. He's incompetent. She has to pull the plug and get somebody competent to start fixing this mess. The heat needs to be turned up on Wilson to make a move.

I know it's not officially over, but Donald Trump will be the 47th President of the United States. Not only that, but it looks like he will also win the popular vote.

This thread is for anything that is auspicious. Have fun!

I figured this would be a good ongoing thread. The football has been fun. The Patriots and Seahawks game was great of course.

My early Super Bowl pick is Chiefs v. Packers.

IMO Stefon Jackson and Antoine Gillespie should be no-brainers. Interesting list he compiled:

Last night we played against a team that was in 9th place in the conference. Tomorrow we play against the second place team, on that will be looking for revenge from their loss at home to us. I felt confident that we would beat FIU; unfortunately I feel no such confidence against Liberty. I hope I'm wrong.

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Liberty 79

Some early concerns:

Only 4RBs on roster and only 2 TEs??

Is Walden getting rid of the RB and TE position??

"Fall enrollment figures for the 2019-20 academic year reached a record high of 25,177, compared with 25,151 last year."

https://www.utep.edu/newsfeed/utep-fall-enrollment-increases-for-21st-consecutive-year.html

""I think when we saw UTEP designated as an R1 institution, the word really got out there about the academic quality of UTEP and more and more graduate students are coming here both at the masters level and doctoral level."

https://www.kvia.com/news/education/enrollment-reaches-record-high-at-utep/1129731189