Any season of Mike Price football was more exciting and successful than anything else UTEP had ever seen. The Jrz Cartel War hurt recruiting and success dwindled. Patterson was the hire after Price, Stull blew it with Kugler. That's the point of no return. That's when shit really hit the fan, the hiring of Sean Kugler.
You sure about that?
4-8 is a winning season at UTEP….would die for a 4-8 season this year
A quarter of the old CUSA was the teams that ditched UTEP in the WAC. 🤣🤣🤣
You have 3 years in there (5-7), 1 win away from bowl eligibility. You have 2 (4-8) 2 wins away. Find me a better stretch in UTEP history? Add his first years, duplicate his tenure hypothetically, and you can call it the Golden Era.
7 straight losing seasons was too much. But the one thing Price gave us was hope. Even though UTEP had AWFUL defenses you knew those UTEP teams were going to throw the ball and try to score points. I don’t think I’m alone in saying that era was the most fun I’ve had at UTEP football games. There was a reason we were always near the top in attendance even though we were losing, and it was because we played a fan friendly brand of football.
Again, NIU and/or Toledo are rumored to be football only invites. That does not affect what we're hoping/wishing/begging to do here. They could invite the entire MAC football only and the MWC would still need 2 full time members.
I’m not going to go down this rabbit hole, but in 2006, he had the Miners at 4-2 and then lost 5 out of the last 6. Miners were 5-5, then he lost on the road to Marshall. Final game of the season, they were blown out at home against 1-10 Memphis, who was 0-7 in CUSA at the time. So spare me the 1 win away from bowl eligibility crap. 5-7 is a loser year, end up in the same place as 2-10.
Yes, the move has to be approved, but it’s a formality. There is no hold up as far as that’s concerned.
Yes, there was hope then, but look where it got us. He should have been fired after 2008.
Problem is: when you look at who Stull succeeded him I would have gladly taken 4-5 win seasons instead of watching Kugler destroy an already awful football program.
Here’s the thing though, even Kugler went bowling and had a winning record in CUSA play 1 year. Lots of other UTEP coaches weren’t able to do that.
Also have to remember that at the time, CUSA still included Memphis, Houston, SMU, and UCF. It was a good league and higher profile than what it’s turned into.
Spare me the even Kuglar crap. Not going down this rabbit hole, but he had Aaron Jones. I could have taken that team bowling.
Texas St is a clear cut better choice than UTEP, no worries at this point. Here’s when you should be worried. Please see below for the list of schools when it’s time to panic that UTEP will remain in CUSA. If you see this school mentioned before UTEP in a tweet similar to Pete Thamel’s. Not random football fans or beat writers from “less than” websites.
Shared this on Thursday I believe. Hoping we’d hear actual Utep invite news this weekend, but haven’t hear much besides Texas St.
Hey Killer, it’s interesting how WSU did Not get any interest from any of the P4 Conferences after their former conference mates jumped shipped. They were left in the open sea to fend for themselves. You would think they would be more humble and sympathetic since they were Not valued by their former conference mates or the P4 conferences.
I definitely think an element of racism and propaganda about the border situation plays a role in it. Whenever I mention people that I am from El Paso they like to tell me that it's a scary place and imagine it to be some big war zone
Depends on which lens you’re looking through. You might be right from a football aspect. The new MWC won’t be that much better than CUSA. Perception wise it will though. Since CUSA is the new FCS move up league. I think SBC football will be superior to both.
Eh, those are probably non-binding donations that they don’t have in hand. Probably just a “if we join the Pac 12, you will donate x”.
