Yeah, I hear Utah State and Fresno really brings them in. My Lord people, Terry booked in out of Fresno for El Paso.
You continuously show your lack of intelligence. Utah St is a great program and UTEP fans wish they could have their success. You’re an absolute moron if you think people want to see Western Kentucky over Utah St.
100%. UTEP has no options right now. Until we win, they will be in CUSA.
Agree. We are in CUSA, for better or worse. It IS the reality. Until we win and get an invite, it is our lot.
Even though, if the football program is a joke, no guarantee a better conference will take us on.
Correct. Except by Division 2, you mean FCS. The WAC and Southland would take UTEP. Maybe the Big Sky, that’s it.
Basketball will continue to languish until football improves. Football is the only way to move up the conference ladder and in to a multi bid league. Building a consistent tourney team in a one bid league is very difficult. The regular season is meaningless and it's very hard to consistently win the conference tournament.
UConn joined the Big East. Their football team sucks, so football is not the “only way”.
UCONN is a blueblood and was a founding member of the conference they just rejoined. The big east is a basketball only power conference. No such conference exist out West for UTEP. Football is the only way.
When someone tell you the only way is through football, you gotta prove them wrong.
Sustained success in either sport is probably the key in all of this. You cant make an NCAA tournament 3 times in 29 years or win a conference title in football 2 times in 65 years. That’s not going to cut it.
Fact is the only time we moved up in conference is when we had a good football team. With the hire of MP and 50k in attendance was enough to convince CUSA to invite us over other more regional schools.
Don’t forget 04 and 05 football made bowl games and basketball went to the NCAA Tourney. Both were crushing it and for that 2 year period we had one of the better Athletic Departments at that time. The stars really aligned for that brief moment.
UTEP is isolated. That's first issue. Football is the money maker. Our basketball program is not going to get us anywhere without football. The MWC broke off from the WAC at the famous airport summit. UTEP was only five years removed from our "glory days". Nobody gave two shits about our basketball contribution to the WAC. We were passed over because we were struggling at football. Football IS the only way to move up. We don't have a desired market. We aren't a blue blood who can join their old basketball power conference. Our only value is improving Football. This adds money to conferences tv packages. Thats what we can bring to the table.
Yes, different times too. UTEP better hope Texas St, UTSA, Rice, and UNT don’t get both sports cooking or they will be wanted before UTEP.
If we're being honest UNT, Rice and UTSA are already more desirable. If Texas St gets football going they will be to. We have ALOT of work to do.
We were passed over because they would have rather had UNLV. UNLV went 0-11 the year the MWC was formed. Being bad at football had nothing to do with UTEP being passed over.
I agree. They’re in prime markets which gives them a leg up on El Paso.
UNLV also has a much better market than UTEP. Thats what we're trying to explain we don't have a desirable market.
I know we do not have a desirable market, but it has been proven that markets don’t matter unless you can get TV money. CUSA is proof of that. They added FIU and FAU for markets, hasn’t done one bit for TV money. Along with all those other schools they added.
What are the odds that happens? If Golding even does 1/2 of that he’s poached, and then you have to be lucky the next guy doesn’t f*ck it all up. UTEP has gotten very few breaks to go their way in the last 30 years, and yet for The Miners to leave their conference they’d need EVERYTHING to hit at once which is a long shot at best.
Rutgers shouldn't have been invited Period!
