appears like it’ll end up being our 3rd sub .500 record in pitiful CUSA in a row. Wow.

Thank gawd Senter meant what he said when he uttered the words that “UTEP will compete for conference championships”. I mean, thank gawd!

Flashback to his opening press conference upon being hired (11/27/2017):

"The third thing that I talked about is this idea of accountability... am I going to sit around and go 'Oh woe is me, I didn't get the recruit, I didn't get the win, I don't have what I need to get my job done.' You're going to own it, right?"

"...I'll tell you, probably the biggest ingredient of all is winning. Winning drives people to come in and watch. Being exciting drives people to come in and watch. And so we've got to hire the right kind of coaches who do that and get it done."

Is Golding "getting it done"? Does .500 equate to "being exciting" or "winning"? What does "owning it" mean exactly?
Is the Basketball program being 106-108 since 2018-2019 (your first full season in charge of Athletics) considered "winning"? Who is accountable, do you own it?

MTSU comes into today, with a better overall and conference record than we have. Hopefully we can regain that late season magic that we had last year, but I'm not betting on it.

MTSU 75
UTEP 68

Either Golding couldn't recruit the right players for his system, or his system has too many vulnerabilities for UTEP to overcome; I don't know which. We consistently get outrebounded. We too often have lapses in defense (WKU shouldn't be making 50% of their shots on our court). I do think the players give a good effort every night, but that's not enough.

okay i will jump on firing tim floyd bandwagon. This is always fun looking for a new coach.

My candidates would be

Dan Majerle: Grand Canyon HC

Tim Jankovich assistant at SMU
http://www.smumustangs.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/tim_jankovich_799079.html

Chris Caputo assistant at U of Miami
http://www.hurricanesports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=28700&ATCLID=205555812

Kenny Payne assistant at Kentucky
http://www.ukathletics.com/sport/m-baskbl/2015/roster/559d90bce4b01c7eefd5eec6

John Robic assistant at Kentucky
http://www.ukathletics.com/sport/m-baskbl/2015/roster/559d90fae4b01c7eefd5f0ec

A few names id get behind: Kyle Keller, Jerome Tang and Jason Hart. Thoughts?

Golding in the month of Feb 10-20 (33.3%)
Home record in conference 18-16 (52.9%)
Overall conference record 31-37 (45.6%)
Record vs WKU 1-7 (12.5%)
Record vs NMSU 3-5 (37.5%)

Jim Senter: "We need your money in order to have a winner" - so that's on me?

I think we lead the county in Quad 13 wins, so that's gotta help in getting an at-large bid.

That's just awful. I guess the home court advantage isn't what it used to be.

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 Haskins left we're 3 for 4 when hiring a hot shot assistant, and 0 for 3 when hiring a proven coach. Maybe we should go back to the previous formula.

Congrats to the Chapin HS Boys basketball team for advancing to the Elite 8. This is more impressive considering the transfer of KJ Lewis.

Great article

What’s Tyler Ebell been up to?

What are they? Not specific to any coach that is coaching or will be coaching in the future. Just asking what everyone’s expectations are for the program.

If you’re expecting Gonzaga or Kansas type results, not sure this post is for you.

Discuss...🤔 🤔

Twitter/X fans are just trolls not real fans. So my expectations are low for those fans .

My expectations for the student fans are high.

I think for what Utep has put out there the fans and support have been good. I think El Paso could do better but Senter needs to produce winners.

games in progress:
LA Tech vs Rice 24-21
FIU vs Charlotte 27-0
FAU vs UTEP 7-6

Liberty up on BYU 34-14

games done
WKU beat UAB

I didn't think that we would sweep this road trip, though I thought it was a slight possibility, but I hoped that we would at least split, and feared a sweep. With our performance on Thursday I believe that the latter is by far the most likely possibility.

Jax State 86
UTEP 71

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

Carry on.

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

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