Ok that’s great it’s easy to bag on someone when they are down but what are your solutions? Obviously you want sender and Golding gone but who are your replacements ? And we have a terrible fanbase how would you fix it ?
Golding and Coaching Contract
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NMSU played their home games at Eastwood HS a few years ago. Then they ended their season prematurely because of all kinds of mess. That is being down. UTEP is not that.
You have to spend money to make money. That includes firing poor performing coaches. That is UTEPs problem. Overpaying for coaches like Terry and Bronzeing, then giving them contract extensions or not firing them is their only problem. You could have hired an assistant somewhere and achieved the same results or better, for a lot less money.
When Bronzeing is the 2nd highest paid coach in the league, that is not something a “poor” school does. A “poor” school wouldn’t be able to afford to do that.
“Terrible fan base” but consistently leads CUSA in attendance. The solution is hiring the right people. That’s it.
If I am Senter, I am swinging for the fences and calling Will Wade, Kimani Young, Ben McCollum, and Craig Smith. Then working the way down the line.
The fan base is slowly dying from the mediocre results. Football has always been bad with a few bright seasons, but basketball has been what most fans look forward to. Not having made the tournament in 15 years is absurd, getting blown out by NMSU by 30 is absurd, getting swept by Jacksonville St/MTSU/WKU is absurd but I am expected to still spend over $800 per season ticket on a team that ended the season on a 1-8 skid?
Make it back to the tournament consistently is how you fix these problems and it is becoming apparent that the current admin and coaching are not the ones to get it done.
You'd think we could get a good/decent hire occasionally. Good lord, I think I could do better using darts.
All you have to do is look at the runner ups for our past cycles and you can see that UTEP has always attracted talented coaches. We are not a damaged brand. From Tang to Jans with a bunch more in the mix. All have shown they can coach at the highest level. It's just that Senter has been making the wrong hire consistently as well. So I think the problem is pretty clear. Fool me once, fool me twice...here at UTEP you get to fool us half a dozen times I guess.
If he wasn’t fired today he wouldn’t be fired this year. What a shame.
Right. They had to fly back first. Gotta get ducks in a row.
I still say by tomorrow
Hoping? Praying? Begging?
Stop trynna delegate. That’s your department dude.
Steve is saying on sports talk that UTEP might not be able to afford a buyout. Which is bs. The only way that's the case is if there's been an extension signed and we owe 3 and not 1 year. Which could very well be the case. Might be time for someone to file a PIA.
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I'm only responsible for 1st shift. We need people for 2nd and 3rd shift. Are you interested?? I looked earlier today if Senter still follows Golding and he does .
Honestly this is a ridiculous question. Off the top of my head I would like Kimani Young to replace Golding, but if he's not interested - I don't know. It's not my job. I don't really follow whom the best head coaches at smaller schools are, nor the hottest assistant coaches. I certainly have no idea about quality ADs or Associate ADs. Again, I'm not in the business of hiring those positions. What I do know is that since Senter has been here we've had exactly one winning season each in football and basketball. In basketball, that season came when Golding was coaching Terry's recruits, and it was hardly an impressive season. With his own recruits Golding has yet to have a winning record against Div 1 competition. That's enough to tell me that neither guy is performing well at his job. It's the University President's job to hire the AD and the AD's job to hire the coaches.
Give any of us random posters 6 years at the job and I guarantee we won't do much worse than Senter and some of us much better.
I couldn't care less about how annoying our coach is. If he's the most annoying coach in the country but can win then I'll take him. We've had too many nice guys around here and they have done nothing.
Exactly. Barbee wasn’t a people person but he was a great recruiter and got us to the tournament and won a conference title. I’ll take that any day.
What’s annoying is, not winning and never competing for a conference championship.
I liked having Barbee as coach. I thought he was solid all the way around. I do think his recruiting "ability" was skewed, though. I think he recruited well to UTEP because of his ties to Memphis. It is my opinion that his recruiting was sub par at his next couple of stops as head coach, because his Memphis pipeline had dried up. Just my .02 worth.
I may be wrong here, but it seems to me that in both sports a lot of the success of HCs comes down to the quality of the assistants they are able to put on staff. The assistants seem to do a lot of the recruiting.
It is the collective. You could have put the dream team behind Kugler, but if your head coach wants to run a 1970s offense, recruit El Pasoans and doesn’t care about special teams you’re still going to be a disaster.
Fran McCaffery is out at Iowa. I think they're delusional; I would snatch him up in a heartbeat.
That's a false rumor that people actually believe. He did have an extramarital affair that resulted in a child. The mistress was not a cheerleader
I think with the lack of news this past week, it's a good indication that Golding will be back next year, meaning next year will be a lost year. Lord forbid he actually received an extension. I am tired of Senter, Golding and their continued mediocrity and plan to give up my season tickets next year. I hate to do that bc I have great seats and am surrounded by other great fans but I can't keep supporting this trash.
Don’t worry. There will be plenty of other great seats available if and when you decide to come back.
How is Golding still UTEP's coach? I'm literally baffled. There will be no other perfect time to turn the team over.
The ONLY thing I can imagine is that Wilson is waiting to fire both he and Senter after next season and before heading to the MWC. Just do it now.
The ONLY thing I can imagine is that Wilson is waiting to fire both he and Senter after next season and before heading to the MWC. Just do it now.
Facts fellow Miner Fans and myself have to face. Golding wasn’t going to get fired with back to back winning records. We had hoped this year would be the year and the 7 game losing streak and blow out by Liberty killed that hope. Either way Golding was not in jeopardy of losing his job sorry to say as much as we wanted it to happen. I don’t know how the extension will look or if this will be a lame duck year or what. I’ve heard the rumors that I’ve mentioned, but the only thing I believe is that he’ll be here next year and am starting to accept it. There’d have to be a drastic upgrade in talent via transfers for me to get any hope. Texas Tech turned over a whole team after Beard and was good the next year, but Utep and Golding haven’t showed us anything remotely close to have those hopes so I get the apathy!
The “back to back winning records” are padded by 3 non-D1 wins each of those years. If I wanted to, I would breakdown all his wins, as I would guess most of them are against non-D1 and trash like FIU.
He is just going to tell you that it’s your fault because you aren’t donating enough money to expect championships.
Which is true, to an extent...if every home game was sold out last year and this year, pretty sure there would be buyout $$ and then some.
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