Peak Dimel
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I won't fuss too much about the beach volleyball team struggling in its first season. Like the other volleyball, C-USA is actually somewhat competitive. The women's volleyball in general in C-USA is better than one would expect from this conference.
What UTEP “hopefully” is able to do to newest CUSA conference mates who think they can just come in and own the place.
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Well, no matter how you feel about Dimel, this is “Peak Dimel”. This has to be one of the best UTEP teams, top to bottom, he has fielded since he set foot on El Paso desert soil. He’s got good local talent, good JUCO talent sprinkled with a transfer here & there who are expected to immediately contribute. UTEP added more muscle to rb, and within the past 24-48 hours, good news in the wr front.
Just like basketball, “players are going to play”, especially at this level. But Miner fans are shy on what they’ve been sold: Invited to a witty Owen Wilson love comedy but got Andrew Wilson instead.
Major upset Boise State Dimel or “Blow a big lead” UTSA Dimel?
Truth is, This team is loaded.
Just like basketball, “players are going to play”, especially at this level. But Miner fans are shy on what they’ve been sold: Invited to a witty Owen Wilson love comedy but got Andrew Wilson instead.
Major upset Boise State Dimel or “Blow a big lead” UTSA Dimel?
Truth is, This team is loaded.
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His recruiting was never a question to me. Now let's see him coach the talent up. That was the problem last season with an experienced talented team.
Franklin-Hankins-Burgess. 1-2-3 punch should be interesting. Franklin was a good rb in Alabama at the 6A level at two high schools. Anyways, Covid, injury and a snafu of some sort at Washington, who offered, was UTEP's luck. As has been documented here, DeBoer's Huskies rb situation has been beneficial to Dimel as he landed two of their rb's. We will see Dumas, I just don't see him beating out Franklin or Burgess at this point in time.
"6-foot-2, 225-pound Franklin rushed for 898 yards and 8 touchdowns in eight games, averaging 6.6 yards per carry, for a 10-1 Contra Costa College team in San Pablo. "
https://www.si.com/college/washingt...fer-scholarship-to-california-jc-running-back
"6-foot-2, 225-pound Franklin rushed for 898 yards and 8 touchdowns in eight games, averaging 6.6 yards per carry, for a 10-1 Contra Costa College team in San Pablo. "
https://www.si.com/college/washingt...fer-scholarship-to-california-jc-running-back
If UTEP can manage all three of these RBs I don’t think it matters. Dimmel wants to run the ball and just rotate them out and grind these teams into the ground and then kill them with long strikes to Smith.
I could be wrong, but I think Dumas will need a waiver to play next year. If so, supposedly, the NCAA is making a lot tougher to get that waiver for the second D1 transfer.
Dimels retention of players in this day and age is what's amazing.
I thought if you transfer during the preset transfer windows you're able to play right away. If you transfer outside of those windows, you either have to sit out a year or need to be a graduate transfer. That's my understanding anyway.
Right. That is one of the transfer stipulations. However, only first time D1 transfers (within the window) do not require a waiver. A second D1 transfer, for a non-graduate, requires the waiver. So, unless Dumas is a grad transfer, I believe he will need to sit out a year. There are exceptions, which is typical of the NCAA, but that process is supposed to be much more difficult starting this year. I guess we will see how this works out.
WKU should win it all. UTEP has the most talent up and down the roster in CUSA but Hardison in not consistent and Dimel can not finish a game when they are moving the ball, but when they can, UTEP is hard to stop.
SHSU is a sleeper.
Jacksonville State is coming in with attitude, players and fans. Their first games against UTEP is going to be first game, all emotions on the field. JSU will come out slugging, literally. I expect the yellow laundry to be all over the field the entire game. Can UTEP keeps its cool in a week zero first game ugly match against an overly excited former FCS newbie?
NMSU now has a bullseye on their back. They got the attention they wanted, football speaking. The entire Aggie athletic department is dependent on Kill's success with both his contract (tied directly to AD Moccia) and now with once a solid mid major basketball is now in total rebuild and has to regain trust from fans. Pavia is a solid CUSA top five qb with a ton of fight in him. He doesn't have the arm like a lot of the CUSA gun slingers, but he has fast feet and very elusive.
Liberty is going to be CUSA's new Houston from eleven to twelve years ago. Welcome Chadwell offense to CUSA. You can bend, just don't break against a Chadwell coached team. Chadwell will be at a major program.
Stockstill is Stockstill. He can take an underachieving qb's and make them look almost NFL draft worthy. He wins ugly games and they slug back; downright dirty too as fans witnessed at the Sun Bowl. Stockstill lives on the long ball but lulls teams to sleep with the run. If your secondary is iffy (like UTEP was last year), you will lose to MTSU.
CUSA is glad lucky to have WKU in CUSA. Devoted to making winning programs. They should take the CUSA title.
La Tech is up and down. Cumbie revamped his staff and with that comes a wait and see prognosis. However, they are becoming a solid UTEP rival as time passes.
FIU and SHSU are total sleepers. FIU MacIntyre is in total rebuild at FIU and going in the right direction.
SHSU is a sleeper.
Jacksonville State is coming in with attitude, players and fans. Their first games against UTEP is going to be first game, all emotions on the field. JSU will come out slugging, literally. I expect the yellow laundry to be all over the field the entire game. Can UTEP keeps its cool in a week zero first game ugly match against an overly excited former FCS newbie?
NMSU now has a bullseye on their back. They got the attention they wanted, football speaking. The entire Aggie athletic department is dependent on Kill's success with both his contract (tied directly to AD Moccia) and now with once a solid mid major basketball is now in total rebuild and has to regain trust from fans. Pavia is a solid CUSA top five qb with a ton of fight in him. He doesn't have the arm like a lot of the CUSA gun slingers, but he has fast feet and very elusive.
Liberty is going to be CUSA's new Houston from eleven to twelve years ago. Welcome Chadwell offense to CUSA. You can bend, just don't break against a Chadwell coached team. Chadwell will be at a major program.
Stockstill is Stockstill. He can take an underachieving qb's and make them look almost NFL draft worthy. He wins ugly games and they slug back; downright dirty too as fans witnessed at the Sun Bowl. Stockstill lives on the long ball but lulls teams to sleep with the run. If your secondary is iffy (like UTEP was last year), you will lose to MTSU.
CUSA is glad lucky to have WKU in CUSA. Devoted to making winning programs. They should take the CUSA title.
La Tech is up and down. Cumbie revamped his staff and with that comes a wait and see prognosis. However, they are becoming a solid UTEP rival as time passes.
FIU and SHSU are total sleepers. FIU MacIntyre is in total rebuild at FIU and going in the right direction.
Peak Dimel’s in a beautiful way. Happy Anniversary to Mrs & Mr Dimel.
Committed to her almost as much as he is to Hardison.
Marriage anniversary or the pool table anniversary? 🤔
Happy anniversary to the Dimels.
UTEP's website is talking up how many football players are on watch lists. We almost always get one or two that make a watch list. This year we seem to have five or six. The team better have a successful season this year. This is probably the best team the Miners have seen in over a decade. Should be interesting times for UTEP.
UTEP's website is talking up how many football players are on watch lists. We almost always get one or two that make a watch list. This year we seem to have five or six. The team better have a successful season this year. This is probably the best team the Miners have seen in over a decade. Should be interesting times for UTEP.
Screw it Bold Prediction...... Miners Beat Northwestern this year! I'll accept wagers with a limited amount of confidence, but time to go out on a limb and put a little belief behind this team 😔
$50 and I say only $50, cause I'm sure you're not the only one who's gonna take this bet lol
If UTEP was ever going to beat up on a power 5 team, this is the year to do it. Northwestern wasn't very good to begin with and the toilet has flushed on them twice as this season approaches. And with the Miners being potentially the best they've been in years; this is the time. Bet whatever you want. Loser donates to the Miner Athletic Fund. I'll put 20 on UTEP. This way, the Miners get the money no matter who wins.
“Based on all the performance incentives in his contract, a big season by the Miners on and off the field would easily take Coach Dimel over the million-dollar mark in earnings for 2023. It would also give UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter enough assurance to re-work Dimel’s contract with another multi-year extension that would make him the first ever million-dollar UTEP head coach in base pay.”
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Kappy's Corner: How Dimel could earn $1 million this season
It is hard to believe that Dana Dimel is already entering his sixth season as head coach of the UTEP football team.
Winning games will change a lot of fan attitudes towards Coach Dimel. Fans would have been thrilled to death over the win against Boise State last year if the Miners hadn't stunk it up terribly against New Mexico the week before. Beating the Lobos would have changed the direction of the whole season. With all the talent UTEP has this year, they need to have a winning season and win a bowl game. If Dimel can break the bowl losing streak, he'll deserve the financial rewards he's got coming. Go Miners.
Not only did UTEP crap the bed against UNM, they had a chance to beat CUSA power UTSA at their place. I still don’t understand how the Miners were able to go up by four scores, only to see them make a huge comeback and beat us by a FG. A victory over UTSA would have sent us to a bowl game and would have created excitement for the players and fans. It goes to show this team has talent but can’t win consistently with Dimel at the helm. This year’s team looks good on paper, but we just don’t know how they’ll perform. I hope they prove me wrong and win 8+ games and a get bowl victory.
