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Don’t worry, we just beat out Henderson St, Slippery Rock, and North Vermont Tech for a JUCO WR the other day. It’s obvious Tyrin is scared of competition and didn’t want to lose his spot. Now that he’s not with us, he’s against us!!!!! Unless, he decides to comeback again!!!!!
He missed some easy balls but it’ll be hard to replace his production.
We knew this transfer was going to happen. I'm just surprised it took this long. Oh well.
He was trying to figure out who paid ($$$) what, gauging the market.
And I'll also assume he got an offer from a P5 school and/or closer to home. All he got last time was WKU.
Yeah but he had a monster season after that. Huge numbers. This is a major loss
I don’t think Smith replaced Cowing’s production. He was 400 yards shy when counting yards from scrimmage. Smith also gained 5 yards less per play from scrimmage.
That’s not a knock on Smith. I think he’s a huge loss. I don’t think we will have a 1000 yard receiver this year. Unless someone we don’t know about steps up big time.
Dimel, just offered the UTSA WR in the portal. I like him, hope they can pick him up.
If he wants to go closer to home (UTSA), he won’t get many opportunities with Cephus and Clark both deciding to return.
Is that supposed to be a serious post?
Based on our current situation, I don’t think Dimel has a choice. UTEP has lost every recruiting battle with other mid major schools that we competed for the same recruits. Dimel and staff need to be more aggressive and target quality skill players or next year will be a disaster.
Not that it matters anymore, but surprisingly, Tyrin smith is on visit to Texas A&M. Did not think he’d attract attention from big schools like that.
I figured he would want go closer to home. And going to the SEC definitely justifies a transfer.
You can’t blame guys for greener pastures. If you’re UTEP you could maybe use that as a selling point to bring in kids that are middle of the road guys. The offer of playing time and the fact that kids have left UTEP for Arizona, FSU and potentially A&M could land UTEP in the enviable role in todays college football landscape as being a feeder school. I’d rather have higher end kids for 1 or 2 years instead of low end kids for 4.
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If you’re not a P5 school, you are basically getting guys that want to be at P5 schools. And the more successful you are as a G5 the more eyes are on the good players for your school. If you’re a P5 the players are now looking to be at another P5 that pays more.
The Florida QB basically gave you a glimpse of the future of College Football. Just like when McCaffery dropped from the Sun Bowl, everyone started wondering if it would be a trend to drop out of Bowl Games, it became normal and understandable. Now you’ve got this QB from Florida who backed out of his LOI because he had a 13 million dollar deal in place and it fell through. It will soon be normal and understandable for an athlete to walk over money and for the LOI to mean nothing.
The Florida QB basically gave you a glimpse of the future of College Football. Just like when McCaffery dropped from the Sun Bowl, everyone started wondering if it would be a trend to drop out of Bowl Games, it became normal and understandable. Now you’ve got this QB from Florida who backed out of his LOI because he had a 13 million dollar deal in place and it fell through. It will soon be normal and understandable for an athlete to walk over money and for the LOI to mean nothing.
totally agree. We have to accept this is who we are going forward! Utep should embrace it, and use it as a recruiting tool.
I still think Utep needs to create a strong nil for basketball so our university can at least stay on the map—- it’s easier in our situation to get nil for 4-5 Bball players then 15-20 for a football team
Hope they can do a NIL at least for a good QB and a few WRs… it’s a start. Right now looks like Dimel is accepting his Juco or bust and that’s that. I hope he does well next year, if not, I hope we get a new coach.
Don't know if true or not but heard that Bryce Young, QB for Alabama, made $3.5 million of NIL money this year. Wow. UTEP will never compete anywhere near that level.
UTEP doesn’t compete at or near that level and never has. Like comparing the Saskatchewan Roughriders to the Dallas Cowboys.
Probably not much difference over the past 27 years. Ah, the good ole days of Q-Ball Carter behind center...
This is why UTEP is going to be in CUSA for a very long time watching these new schools join CUSA and then leave us in the dust.
Why would you not think that? He had a 1000 yards this season. He’s a monster
LOL our basketball is in worse shape than football. Did you see the Don this week for FIU? Empty. No one cares
Because he is 5’6 and does not have “elite” speed. He’s a good player though, he will provide good depth at a&m. If he goes anywhere it’s good to see him go to the good guys.
How big was Johnnie Lee Higgins? How big was Jacob Cowings? Smith looked very fast to me. Broke away a lot
His hands seemed to be an issue. Those drops in the first game were a killer. But hey! If he gets to A&M more power to him.
Yes good for him, he’s enrolling at A&M tomorrow. He gets to play 3 hours from home for what should be a pretty good team (you never know with A&M), and can be a part of one of the best alumni networks in the world.
