Not starting this thread to bang on my chest and say my guess was right, but to express major concern...
1) If Veliz left Montwood to become UTEP's video department whatever he was, then promoted to WR coach, I'd be okay with it as its a true promotion. The douche was basically canned for being accused of stealing funds from the Montwood program and now has a job here at UTEP. He shouldn't be nowhere near this program due to Kugler building this thing with character, and integrity, something I think Veliz lost when he was constantly throwing temper tantrums at refs and winning at the high school level.
2) There is no way in hell he is qualified. The ole Franklin coach Tony Grijalva might have been a better hire, hell even Julio Lopez (HC at Eastwood) who played under Veliz at Montwood and Price at UTEP. Someone even commented on here that they didn't feel he was qualified when I mentioned him in the previous thread. If I remember right, Montwood was blessed with talent due to the Eastside population boom but he was always pegged as a bad gambler and terrible game manager in playoff situations (was on the good side of one of his stupid moves when I played for Andress in '03 that cost him a District Title), and he never made it past the area round despite a string of district titles (five to be exact at Montwood). He dominated at Del Valle winning 3-district titles in a row before leaving to coach Montwood, but this is a terrible hire for a FBS program. This isn't El Paso High school football who hasn't had a team reach anything noteworthy in terms of coaches winning past the area round in 6A football. What recruiting ties does he have? Can he relate and gain respect of established college kids? Can he go into a house hold and sell UTEP's offense to potential WR's? Is he the answer to improve a position group that desperately needs to take a huge step with almost UTEP's entire 2016 offense heading to the NFL? I think not.
3) UTEP couldn't afford an FBS or FCS level coach and/or the market wasn't there, or we can't pay assistant coaches decent money to pry someone from lets say New Mexico, a Sun Belt school, or a small college. Aych I'm sure wasn't paid very highly coming from D-II, but Veliz is probably a cheap hire.
Overall, I hope I'm wrong, and not overreacting, but this hire could spell the beginning of the end of the Kugler era. A lazy hire....
1) If Veliz left Montwood to become UTEP's video department whatever he was, then promoted to WR coach, I'd be okay with it as its a true promotion. The douche was basically canned for being accused of stealing funds from the Montwood program and now has a job here at UTEP. He shouldn't be nowhere near this program due to Kugler building this thing with character, and integrity, something I think Veliz lost when he was constantly throwing temper tantrums at refs and winning at the high school level.
2) There is no way in hell he is qualified. The ole Franklin coach Tony Grijalva might have been a better hire, hell even Julio Lopez (HC at Eastwood) who played under Veliz at Montwood and Price at UTEP. Someone even commented on here that they didn't feel he was qualified when I mentioned him in the previous thread. If I remember right, Montwood was blessed with talent due to the Eastside population boom but he was always pegged as a bad gambler and terrible game manager in playoff situations (was on the good side of one of his stupid moves when I played for Andress in '03 that cost him a District Title), and he never made it past the area round despite a string of district titles (five to be exact at Montwood). He dominated at Del Valle winning 3-district titles in a row before leaving to coach Montwood, but this is a terrible hire for a FBS program. This isn't El Paso High school football who hasn't had a team reach anything noteworthy in terms of coaches winning past the area round in 6A football. What recruiting ties does he have? Can he relate and gain respect of established college kids? Can he go into a house hold and sell UTEP's offense to potential WR's? Is he the answer to improve a position group that desperately needs to take a huge step with almost UTEP's entire 2016 offense heading to the NFL? I think not.
3) UTEP couldn't afford an FBS or FCS level coach and/or the market wasn't there, or we can't pay assistant coaches decent money to pry someone from lets say New Mexico, a Sun Belt school, or a small college. Aych I'm sure wasn't paid very highly coming from D-II, but Veliz is probably a cheap hire.
Overall, I hope I'm wrong, and not overreacting, but this hire could spell the beginning of the end of the Kugler era. A lazy hire....
