No it’s not. Curt Cignetti took 3-9 Indiana to the CFP in year 1. He recruits and plays against Ohio St, Penn St, Michigan and other Big 10 schools.
I’m not saying it’s impossible to turn a football program around in one year, but highly improbable. You’re describing two success stories compared to maybe 10 failures. Yeah, kudos to those coaches for turning their programs around in one year. The reality is, it’s not that easy. If it was that easy, everyone including you would be a football coach.
In today's NCAAF? Probably 9 or 10.
Indiana is a bad example…. They got crushed by Ohio state and barely beat a mid Michigan team …. They didn’t play anyone good in the big 10
They won 3 games the year before and made the CFP. Sounds like a great example to me.
Rarely, if ever. What school has gone from zero to being a consistent power in your lifetime? I was looking at the NCAA Football national Champions and it’s the same schools that win: Bama, LSU, one of the three Florida schools, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio St., Clemson. You have to go back to 91 with Washington and 1990 with Colorado/Ga Tech before you got some weird outlier teams. The super elite teams have enough money to keep the competition down. They can spend more money than anyone else. TCU and Boise State have tried but they can’t shatter the glass ceiling.
Who cares? NMSU lost their coach. Do you think they would have been 3-9 if Kill would have been there this year?
I’m talking about sustainability. There’s a really really good chance UTEP will never sustain it because of history. If Walden wins and moves on, time for the next guy to come in a win ASAP. Not wait 4 or 5 years to appear in the NM Bowl.
Just to play devil's advocate, you do have a legit point. Let's take Boise St vs UTEP and why I pick these two. A color commentator pointed out during a BSU game some weeks back that Boise has built upon the legacy of legendary coach Dirk Koetter who HC's there from '98-2000 (who just announced he is officially retired after a 42 year career) and he was a coach at UTEP early in his career. Both schools went in opposite directions. There was a Lee/Bailey/Nord/Kugler (played under Stull) UTEP connection but it did not yield much success but to mirror Koetter, Boise has become the best mid major in college football.
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I hope the 3rd party contractor that sells season tickets for UTEP is ready for an influx of calls! Once this article is read, phone lines are gonna be jammed with ticket buyers!Malachi Nelson, Jaden Rashada stand as cautionary tales for ultra-hyped QBs who fall into transfer portal trap
Figuratively speaking, Nelson is about as far from USC as humanly possible after two years
And? You said Mario McKinney coming here would sell tickets because he had a lot of instagram followers.
This is totally different. Do you even understand how big this could be for Utep? He was the number 1 recruit on ESPN. He doesn't get in trouble and has no issues, all he wants is to start. If Uteps wins with him at starting QB then Utep has hit the jackpot.
It doesn’t matter who the QB is, or the RB is, or the DE is, wins are the only thing that matter. Not one person is going to the basketball game tomorrow to see Otis Frazier or KJ Thomas. They’re going because the team is 12-3, on a “streak”, and playing NMSU.
This is totally different. Do you even understand how big this could be for Utep? He was the number 1 recruit on ESPN. He doesn't get in trouble and has no issues, all he wants is to start. If Uteps wins with him at starting QB then Utep has hit thejackpot.
I think they are having a lot of visits today. Hopefully the big crowd for the basketball game intrigues some recruit.
I think it’s an image thing. You see the cars, the new locker room, the Sun Bowl and they get to take photos in the UTEP uniform with the staff hyping them up it just adds to the experience.
And then they get a Corrola hatchback
Those were the pre-NIL rules. You get the full sedan these days.
He never had the enthusiasm that Walden has nor did he have this level of recruits. There were no Malachi Nelson’s under Terry
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, we don't yet know how good a recruit Nelson will be. It's possible that he could play like an All American next season. It's possible that he could be a complete bust. Obviously, everything in between is possible as well.
