Sumlin is out at Texas A&M and he will receive more than 10 mil in the next two months as part of his buy out. Another words he's gonna be just fine financially. Meanwhile Utep offer this guy a cool Million with incentives and let him use us for 3-5 years as a stepping stone to get back into Power 5 we don't mind. I'd love to have Coach Sumlin here!!!
Take a shot at Sumlin at least
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Sumlin went 51-26 at an SEC school. He is going to receive much better offers than UTEP. Sumlin is a very rich man and can afford to sit out a year instead of taking the UTEP job....worst case scenario.
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I hear ASU is a very likely landing spot for Summie. Sorry, UTEP has NO shot at the guy.
I know it was a pipe dream just wish Utep could shoot for the stars. All I want is successes for Utep and knowing how this city will back a winner, it sucks that there's no true commitment to Sports like we deserve
UTEP is light years away for even being in contention for getting a coach like Sumlin. There's no point talking about it.
Sumlin would be a disaster at UTEP. He inherited Case Keenum at UH. They won big. However, the one year Keenum was injured they went 5-7. Same thing at a&m he inherited Manziel and won big his first two years. After Manziel left he struggled he couldn't develop a qb. At a&m he had the best facilities in the country got great players and couldn't develop them. He had several nfl first round picks. He still couldn't win. Take all the advantage away from Sumlin and put him the middle of nowhere in an undesirable city and it will be ugly.
He was 51-26 and made 5 bowls in 6 years coaching in the toughest conference in the country.
He would be a grand slam hire, but obviously that isn't happening.
At both places he inherited great and. That's not the case here. He had every advantage in the world at a&m and couldn't get better than mediocre.
They were ranked as high as #6 last year. I wouldn't call that "mediocre".
He would do amazing things here, but again this isn't going to happen.
Sumlin would easily bring in the talent needed to be very competitive in CUSA and win bowl games like the New Mexico bowl. There is no Alabama and Auburn in CUSA.
I get that, but I also think time/resource distribution needs to be used wisely in this search. I think it would be a waste of both to pursue Sumlin. He will have much "better" options. By better, I just mean more recent, and or historical program success.
I've seen lots of posts on here complaining about the negative attitude of El Paso in general but with the view you apparently have of El Paso, I sure hope you are never in a position of trying to recruit anyone to the 915.
I hope you don't live in El Paso since you think it an undesirable city.
I read the same thing.
I have read everywhere to hire the EP Del Valle HC to hire Sumlin or other bigger name coaches who got released. The Del Valle one was is laughable but since we got Price to come here and FIU got Davis and FAU got Kiffin why not UTEP? They all had one thing in common: They really had no place to go in the power conferences. Davis is a bit of a has been but known as a master in rebuilding programs. Kiffin wore out the welcome mat and Price loved, and to this day still, loves the sunny skies country club life and all the fixin's. (No I'm not implying he's dropping his golf trousers to other than Mrs. Price).
This crop of HC coaches from up high didn't deliver on somewhat unrealistic expectations. They still have "political weight" and UTEP is not an option. We are the laughing stock of college football. But I do know it will improve.
The point was the prevailing view of El Paso is negative. Perception is reality and the perception is El Paso is not a desirable city. This perception has hurt UTEP tremendously through out the years. It's something that instead of denying of getting defensive about a strategy has to be implemented to combat it. UTEP has a lot of issues that need to be addressed. This is the time to take all the skeletons out of the closet admit they're real and adress them.The perception of the city is one of the skeletons, academics and a computer school are two of the other big issues. There are more.
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