As a future ex- donor I can say this
JC caliber players + incompetent coach and staff = UTEP football
So…
Senter and Wilson…pls change that formula….if your goal is to play in Lone Star Conference, count me out.

very interesting calls.

Does anyone know if there is anything going on? My brother is up there for the game and was asking

Verhoeven going pro in Europe:

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Have any locals or otherwise heard the excuse for why chimps were producing the ESPN+ coverage? It is so basic to film with a camera and have audio. Keep the camera on the game and turn up the volume. Some of these chimps need a remedial course in "Do your job" 101. Any explanation at all? I heard post-game coverage on the ESPN600 app and the host excused it because it was the first game of the season and wouldn't get into it further, what a joke.

Calls it aggressiveness and playing for the win:

https://kvia.com/sports/utep/2023/0...cision-to-go-for-it-on-third-and-fourth-down/

Nice 1st defensive series. Let's hope the offense can get something going

https://dailynorthwestern.com/2023/...ls-hazing-allegations-after-coach-suspension/

Coach Fitzgerald was already serving a two-week suspension related to the hazing allegations before this article in the student newspaper was released.

If these allegations are true, it's probably not going away quietly. Who knows what kind of fallout there will be.

I think this game will say a lot toward the upcoming weeks. Losing to UIW would be the 2nd loss to an FCS team in 5 years and will completely crush the off-season hype to where now we're looking at 2-10 or worse

Coming back from 2 games on the road on September 23 would mean attendance crashes as well

Okay let’s move on…..

UIW is stacked for a FCS team with all the transfers they have on the depth chart and roster and UTEP is facing a much more capable QB in Calzada who is certainly gonna have a chip on his shoulder. Don’t see a major level of adjustment with their new staff as their HC has been around there, but they will make week one mistakes the question is does UTEP capitalize like they were unable to do at all last week.

Don’t see a line anywhere.

UIW 24 UTEP 20

UTEP lost to an FCS level offense (or worse) on Saturday, don’t see things getting better in a week. Another close game and disappointing loss to start year 6.

How about Mack Leftwich's TSU offense putting up 28 points on Baylor
at halftime. Wish we had him here.

So it appears the general thought is Utep Football is doomed. Bad coaching, sub par QB Play, talented roster waisted etc.. Does anyone believe or think this talented team feels embarrassed from last week and responds in a Big way? Maybe not so much with UTEP over the years, but this has happened in College Football every year with teams who played below expectations especially the 1st game of the season on the road. Just wondering if anyone believes this has a chance to be the case and today Utep wins Big? I'm holding my breath 🫁, and am 50/50 about tonight's game, so we'll see what happens!

When you play in front of a national audience and the spotlight is on your team and you don't succeed, you can't dismiss these type of articles/perceptions:
Week 0 winners, losers

"Last year, they had a tremendous, tremendous football team. I mean, a team that would have finished in the upper level of Conference USA, a team that went deep, deep into the playoffs and was a really, really good football team."

I guess if UTEP loses, they would lose to a "really, really good football team".

I guess CUSA is really that bad if, according to Dimel, an FCS team would finish in the upper level of CUSA.

Threw for 3 TDs for Texas A&M in an upset win vs #1 Alabama.

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Women's volleyball and women's soccer. Can't do much better than our women are doing at 4-0 in volleyball. On the other hand the soccer girls just got Slammed by the California Baptist 6 to zip.

D forces a punt!

This is when Dimel should actually feel like the HVAC is not working as Darren peppers as to why UTEP is underperforming, again, to start year six.

This is not only a game UTEP should have won, but easily left victorious.

It has reached over $4 here in AZ. I've seen as high as $4.15. Sam's is at $3.95.

Will be interesting to watch Torrance Burgess today.
https://www.ourlads.com/ncaa-football-depth-charts/depth-chart/utep/92338

Watch the dumb penalties and boring offense on NFL Network

Tickets are selling fast and it is totally not GECU buying up loads of tickets! The hype is real! LFG MINERS!

UTEP is a 1 point favorite.

UTEP 34
Jacksonville State 30

This is as Dimel as it gets.