I appreciate this young man. He's been through a lot in his life and now he's got to play for the Miners. Tough break.

I must admit, I liked what I saw out of him on Saturday. He made plays, didn't just run them. He was able to find yards where non-existed. He gave us the best chance to move the football. If we can find someone to block for him he may give us a chance to win some ball games.

First game in D-1 having had to split time with Metz all Summer and I think he did okay given the talent he's having to deal with. He found his playmakers in Wadley and Dawn.

We need to put the team in his hands and let him lead us whereever we're going to go.

This you man will be the backup before the season ends. I also, think he'll be in the fight to be the starter next season. He's the best runner on the team and makes no mistakes with the ball. Only thing left for him to show is accuracy on the deep ball and it's over.

Not sure why no one's talking about this transfer. Pretty big pick up for Golding I think. The off season has been pretty uneventful, but this a major get for next year at the most important position. Welcome Zid!

Haven't seen anything posted on her. Are you guys aware of how well she's going in THE WNBA? She's averaging 11.8 ppg for The Dallas Wings which is second on the team. Proud of her.

Despite not having any support from the government sports entity CONADE, Mexico's Artistic Swimming Pool Team wins the Word Cup Gold Medal in Egypt https://www.worldaquatics.com/news/...de-the-artistic-swimming-world-cup-in-somabay Login to view embedded media

UMass is building a Calipari statue but we still don't have a statue for Haskins at the building that uses his namesake. Still doesn't make sense to me.

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Yes, this post may overlap a similar thread about Stull vs Senter, but I digress.

I saw a question posed somewhere, someone asked about another school - Do we have a team or a program?

Yes, the obvious answer is "a program", but think deeper and UTEP really has a football team, a basketball team. We cant rely on a championship from 57 years ago or a Sweet Sixteen from 31 years ago. Does it help telling a recruit, "Hey about 15 years before you were born, we beat Kansas"

In Senter's tenure we have a collection of teams, that play each season, try to win as many games as possible (usually unsuccessfully), and then look to the following season - and the cycle renews. They are individual teams that come and go.

Look at Twitter, people think the football team might go 7-5 or perhaps 5-7 next season - wow "we may go just above .500", show me a tweet where anyone thinks UTEP will compete for the championship. Do you think Men's Basketball will be predicted to go anywhere higher than perhaps 3rd next season (coaches pre-season or any publication or platform) - and in a watered down league.

We don't have programs that consistently build upon itself, that are devoted to winning championships (yes I know that's the goal at UTEP), and bringing positive national attention to the athletics department.

Senter was hired 11/22/2017, so since the 2018-19 season the 4 most visible sports/window to the university are as follows:

Football 17-40 (29.8%) - No Conference Championships, 1 Bowl Appearance (New Mexico)
Men's Basketball 71-80 (47%) - No Conference Championships, No NCAA Appearances, No NIT, 1 Basketball Classic
Women's BB 76-71 (51.7%) - No Conference Championships, 1 WNIT Appearance
Indoor Volleyball 69-64 (51.9%) - No Conference Championships, 1 National Invitational Appearance

So basically, women's sports are just above .500, Football is horrendous, men's basketball is semi-horrendous.
NO CHAMPIONSHIPS, NO PROGRAMS
Went from playing UNT, So Miss, Marshall, to Kennesaw State - yeah thats going to be huge draws, 3-4 UTEP vs 2-5 Kennesaw State on a Wednesday night in October. We will schedule more mercy games at OU, Texas, Tennessee and get decimated and be on ESPN with a score of 51-6 - that will most certainly help recruiting while App State goes out and beats A&M. Again, App State has a nice program.

Does anyone think his departure is strange? He redshirts practices and sits. Now what was the point of wasting a year and then transfer.
Is this on Golding? His high school resume was impressive.

It might make the game a bit more difficult.

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UTEP still needs to approach this as a winnable game.

Thought this would be an interesting discussion brought over from Twitter. Someone on there brought up how David Latin isn’t on the list which surprised me. Thoughts??


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His dad played basketball at Utep.

anyone remember him??

Must have missed it on Twitter, but he's on Jeff Goodman's list.


Mario McKinney Jr., 6-1 ,185, G, Jr., UTEP (8.9 ppg)
Ze’rik Onyema, 6-8, 230, F, Soph., UTEP (7.1 ppg)
Jamari Sibley, 6-8, 185, F, Soph., UTEP (3.7 ppg)
Carlos Lemus, 6-3, 190, G, Soph., UTEP (3.1 ppg)

Check out this article from El Paso Times:

El Paso businessman Russell Vandenburg, fighting cancer and fraud charges, dies at age 75

Another Texas Western College legend is gone

Now he's after the Trolleys https://diario.mx/el-paso/definira-cabildo-futuro-del-tranvia-en-el-centro-20230410-2044113.html

Interesting that even with the incentive of additional funding from Microsoft, football or basketball (either men’s or women’s) isn’t in the top 3
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