Are you forgetting the success this one bid league had I believe 4 years in a row … didn’t one of these teams from this one bid league make the final 4? Cusa is an average league but not a bad one…
Can we stop pretending that this is a good team?
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This post has a chance of not aging well. We currently have 17 wins, are .500 in conference, and have four games left. If we split those four games, which we have a pretty good chance of doing, we will finish with only 19 wins, and would require at least one win the CUSA Tournament to get to 20 wins. If we do worse than split, it would take more wins to get to MinerFan79's 20 wins. Obviously winning at least three of the four gets us there, but, as others have noted, winning 20 games with our easy OOC schedule is nothing special.
To be clear, I don't want the Miners to fail to win 20 games. My fondest hopes would be for them to win their next 13 straight games (yes, I know that there is no way this will happen).
I'll close with a question for MinerFan79: if Golding fails to win your predicted 20 games, will you admit that he needs to go? Even though I believe that this team probably represents the best that Golding will be able to do at UTEP, and that it just isn’t good enough, I'm already on record as saying that if Golding wins the CUSA Tournament that he's earned his chance to return.
They’re not in the league anymore.
3 tournaments ago, a small school made the Elite 8. Who were they and what conference are they in? Is anyone saying that conference is any good?
Yes, the year FAU made the final 4, CUSA had a strong year (and UTEP was awful). But FAU, UNT, UAB, Charlotte are in the AAC now.
Look what it took to get two bids that year though. FAU had to win 35 games.
When was the last time before 2022-2023 that CUSA received multiple bids? 2009-2010?
Look ass, don't give me your Kaneesque crap, I was responding to previous post, jack@ss.
Maniac, train and I and a small few others are typically the only ones commenting each play during game time while all you can do is hurl insults and pile on when a coach is in the crosshairs of fans.
Most on here would have been hanging Sadler along with Golding now as well if he was on staff.
My point exactly I said it was an overlooked league and those tournament wins prove that…. And he is the one that was talking about how bad the league was going all the way back to the Memphis days when they even made it to the Championship game if I remember
We had middle Tennessee state
Uab and Fau win some big games and those teams if I remember right weren’t even our top teams … that’s league was way underrated during those years and the ncaa proved tgat
E. Anyone else but those 4
And can we please quit saying that we need to give a coach top dollars; you see what better coaches are doing than ours that get paid less and have less support attendance-wise than ours. We just need a hungry, up and coming coach. We will be happy with a coach that takes us to the big dance and then leaves. At least we’ll be winning. Then the next hungry coach can see the opportunity and take it too
And can we please quit saying that we need to give a coach top dollars; you see what better coaches are doing than ours that get paid less and have less support attendance-wise than ours. We just need a hungry, up and coming coach. We will be happy with a coach that takes us to the big dance and then leaves. At least we’ll be winning. Then the next hungry coach can see the opportunity and take it too
How do you define a hungry, up and coming coach? Golding would seem to be one off the heels of his NCAA upset over Texas.
Bronzeing had a losing record his first 6 seasons at ACU, and was .500 his 7th. Years 3 thru 6 were ACU’s transition to D1. In year 8 he went 27-7 went to the NCAAs. Year 9 went 20-11 and T-2nd in the league. COVID year. Year 10 went 24-5 and beat Texas in the tournament.
So Golding is a slow learner and we should wait until year 8 to see a little success? Ok, why not. I mean, we've all waited 14 years already to get back to the NCAAs; what's another 4 years at this point? 18 years to return to the NCAAs seems reasonable, does it not?
I like it. Like cooking up a really good spaghetti sauce. Takes hours and constant stirring and tasting to make sure you have the right amount of salt, basil, etc. The pointer sisters wanted a man with slow hands too.
Patience. It's a virtue.
Times were different though and he’s not going through a transition of levels here. No school is giving 8 years. At least ones that have the pedigree and coaching salaries that UTEP does.
