First of all, I would like to thank God. All glory be to him. I'd also like to thank my family, friends, and the fans for putting up with me being a UTEP fan for these past 40+ years. It's been great. However, after much thought and prayer, I've decided to enter the transfer portal and continue my fandom elsewhere. Much love!

Are there not enough players for the practice squad? Seems kind of odd. Reeks of desperation? Maybe we'll find a new QB.

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Let's just get this out of the way. I'm not sure who was the closest, but not sure it matters with the blow out that most didn't expect.
Dimel is allegedly going to make changes to put the offense and Hardison in better situations. I'll believe it when I see it SMH 😒
Arizona somehow is only 17 pt favorites at home. I don't know who believes in Utep still in Vegas, but that line is generous to say the least.
Utep plays better, but still loses Big

UTEP Talented, but Flawed Miners 14
Arizona moving to Big12 Wildcats 45

According to new rankings by U.S. News & World report, it’s FIU at #124:

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

This was Dimel's fifth year. The year the program was going to make a leap. It didn't. To make it worse we probably played the most manageable schedule in UTEP history. A coach in his fifth year couldn't ask for an easier schedule. There is no excuse for not winning this season. He has to win one more game to match Kugler's five year win total. That fact in itself should get him fired.

Next year the schedule is harder. We start at home with fcs UIW who beat Nevada 41-14 this year. That's no gimmie. At best its a 50/50 game. We then get two power five's on the road @Northwestern and @Arizona. Then we get a very improved UNLV at home. I could see us going 0-4 in non conference. In conference the only two schools I would favor us over are the two transitioning FCS squads SHSU and JSU. Even those could be toss ups. If Dimel can't win this year with this easy schedule he won't win next year. He should be fired but I'm afraid we're going to see a repeat of 2017.

Seems like a sure win.

We're going to have our hands full with them.

I was going back and forth watching both games, then gave up on UTEP at halftime and focused solely on the CSU-CU game.

Everyone is dickriding Deion but what I saw is that CSU has something special brewing. Kids have grit, never gave up. Their WR’s can catch! Their QB didn’t pout and quit after that pick-6. Their LBs have their fundamentals down on how to tackle.

CSU was on the road vs the world, and they took it to CU. (Blah blah dirty plays etc, CU was doing the same shit but the media is all over their balls.)

Of note, Norvell is the 74th highest paid coach in FBS at $1.6M. Dana Dismel is the 97th at $804k. Jim Senter makes $350k, Joe Parker CSU AD $440k.

Anyhow it’s a damn shame UTEP continues to regress, and we keep paying this clown $800k a year for bogus football while other schools, former conference mates, continue to leave us in the dust.

First off I've been watching the whole game and just turned it off after Franklins fumble after getting rocked. I hope he's ok, cause that was a shot. Stinks, cause he got the 1st and made a great effort. That play was a microcosm of the whole game. UTEP fought, but it was never in doubt, not once. I liked the fight, and think if Utep played this way against NW last week for the whole game they may have won or at least kept it close. This one just felt like a slow constant bleed, but the result was clearly inevitable. Now here are the key points.
-Hardison played decent, but our receivers did him no favors whatsoever. It was sad to see so many big pass plays missed, cause they simply can't catch anything SMH 😏 Hardison was clearly frustrated and I'm sure it effected the whole team.
- Defense showed flashed and surprisingly made adjustments to their Electric QB in the second half, but forgot to defend the run. It was definitely a bend, but try not to break attempt by Dimel.
- Overall better effort, but this team will have a losing season, because they simply cannot score!
-Tuned back into see Hurley and the 2nd team offense drive down and throw a Lazer for a TD. I don't know if that was, cause Arizona had already put their second team in, but that was impressive and I like that kid Hurley alot at least on that drive.

After Boise St. Lost to us last year, they made changes to their coaching staff and their quarterbacks. They became better.

What changes have we made?

Now being credited to the Philly Eagles. Miners can't catch a break.

I want to thank God,family ,and my fans. I had many great offers. But I committing to pro boards. I will talk about kaps pay and my pay, and other things over there. This thread will probably also be deleted. 🤪🤪🤪

UTEP 13
Northwestern 27

It’s the best we can hope for, unfortunately.

GO MINERS!

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Endured the game today and met a couple of fellow Miner fans. We all commented about how poor Northwestern’s Ryan stadium is compared to the Sun Bowl. It’s 97 years old and looks it. The Sun Bowl blew it away, even with all its deficiencies.

GO MINERS!

Great offensive play calling and execution by the Miners to go up 7-0.

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