It is a cruel world but acting independently has rewarded us how? This is not a dog eat dog game, but a big dog eats little dog one and UTEP and NMSU are little dogs. All mid majors like UTEP are being squeezed and today it is NMSU, the day will come when it will be SMU or Houston, CSU and UTEP we just think it couldn't happen to us. All schools at FBS status have seen us locked out of scheduling, punished unjustly, denied tourney bids and TV revenue by this idea of acting independently. College Athletics is not a free market, is not democratic and rules and regulation are made to benefit certain membership, not us. Why do we continue to act as if this is not affecting UTEP?, are we holding out hope that we will somehow overcome this situation and an become a BCS player, all by ourselves? leave everybody else behind? Does any Miner fan really believe our athletic prowess, a few years of success will be rewarded with UTEP being invited to the excusive club? If we continue along this route of only seeing and fighting this as an independent issue, college athletics will continue to see all power, decision making in the hands of a few. I am not just advocating for NMSU, but for all the Texas States, UNMs, Rice's of the college football world who have somehow watched their athletic programs moved to the back of the bus and still behave and act independently as if they were fully responsible for this occurring and that only they can lift themselves out of this.
