The next UTEP head FB coach will be successful

[utep2step]

It's after year one or two that things go south. UTEP does not offer enough to keep assistants. Former Kug assistant Theron Aych is a perfect example. Hot stud head coach out of Angelo State. Kug snatched him up. One year later he's coaching against UTEP on the Arizona sideline.

This is UTEP football. Basketball developed into it's own thing because of obvious reasons. The next coach has to prove it is because of him. Price and Kug failed in that department.

The task is daunting to say the least.

 

[MinerInWisconsin]

It's after year one or two that things go south. UTEP does not offer enough to keep assistants. Former Kug assistant Theron Aych is a perfect example. Hot stud head coach out of Angelo State. Kug snatched him up. One year later he's coaching against UTEP on the Arizona sideline.

This is UTEP football. Basketball developed into it's own thing because of obvious reasons. The next coach has to prove it is because of him. Price and Kug failed in that department.

The task is daunting to say the least.

Aych was the OC at Angelo St, not the HC. He did have a great offense there and should receive consideration for head coach and/or OC at UTEP when the decisions are made.

He also was a GA at Houston and still recruits the Houston area for Arizona. Valuable man.

 

[utep2step]

Oops. Thanks for correcting. The Fosters I was drinking was that good.

 

[Cube Jack]

Where would you rank Kugler as a UTEP head coach? Around David Lee and Charlie Bailey? Higher or lower than Coach Nord? Bill Yung?

What would we define as successful? Coach Stull? Coach Price?

 

[UTEPfan1966]

I still think Kugler was ahead of Lee. I don't know the numbers, but overall, his APR was amazing and the kids were awesome.
Still lost, but great kids.....

 

[unihorn]

Where would you rank Kugler as a UTEP head coach? Around David Lee and Charlie Bailey? Higher or lower than Coach Nord? Bill Yung?

What would we define as successful? Coach Stull? Coach Price?

Forgive my foggy memory, but was Stull HC when UTEP got smoked in Ft. Worth by TCU and LaDanian Tomlinson? Was that a bowl game? I was there, but was kind of drunk.

 

[JCorona]

Forgive my foggy memory, but was Stull HC when UTEP got smoked in Ft. Worth by TCU and LaDanian Tomlinson? Was that a bowl game? I was there, but was kind of drunk.

That was 2000 with Gary Nord. TCU was actually a top 10 team that season but a surprise loss at San Jose St knocked them out of the top 15. The game vs UTEP was the unofficial WAC championship game. UTEPDefense has posted a link to a really good article about that game in one of the other threads.

 

[unihorn]

That was 2000 with Gary Nord. TCU was actually a top 10 team that season but a surprise loss at San Jose St knocked them out of the top 15. The game vs UTEP was the unofficial WAC championship game. UTEPDefense has posted a link to a really good article about that game in one of the other threads.

Gracias. That was a pretty big game for UTEP (going in).

 

[Lil_Train]

Gracias. That was a pretty big game for UTEP (going in).

Looks like that was actually old Charlie Bailey in 1999. I had to look it up:

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/112199/spo_112199013.shtml#.Wd1ndEROmBY

 

[JCorona]

Looks like that was actually old Charlie Bailey in 1999. I had to look it up:

http://lubbockonline.com/stories/112199/spo_112199013.shtml#.Wd1ndEROmBY

It looks like they got smoked two years in a row in Ft Worth. The 2000 game had bigger implications.

https://www.frogsowar.com/2013/6/13/4414600/my-favorite-tcu-football-game

 

[unihorn]

Crap, well I was at one of those haha.

 

[JCorona]

Crap, well I was at one of those haha.

Well let me ask you this. Was the stadium full or half full? In 1999 the attendance was 21,000. In 2000 the attendance was over 41,000.

 

[Lil_Train]

Well let me ask you this. Was the stadium full or half full? In 1999 the attendance was 21,000. In 2000 the attendance was over 41,000.

How could I forget Nord's guarantee for that game in 2000? Unfortunately, the outcome didn't turn out in our favor, but that was still a very solid Miner team.

 

[unihorn]

Well let me ask you this. Was the stadium full or half full? In 1999 the attendance was 21,000. In 2000 the attendance was over 41,000.

I'm thinking 2000 because I do remember a lot of Miner fans there.

 

[McKinneyMiner]

Stull was the coach when UTEP got obliterated by Wyoming on national tv...Same Wyoming team that was then taken behind the woodshed for a whoopin' in their bowl game by Barry Sanders and Oklahoma St.

Forgive my foggy memory, but was Stull HC when UTEP got smoked in Ft. Worth by TCU and LaDanian Tomlinson? Was that a bowl game? I was there, but was kind of drunk.

 

[JCorona]

How could I forget Nord's guarantee for that game in 2000? Unfortunately, the outcome didn't turn out in our favor, but that was still a very solid Miner team.

Now that I think about it why did UTEP have to play in Ft Worth two years in a row? Imagine if that 2000 game had taken place at the Sun Bowl.

 

[UTEPDefense]

Now that I think about it why did UTEP have to play in Ft Worth two years in a row? Imagine if that 2000 game had taken place at the Sun Bowl.

Yes, the LaDainian Tomlinson game was Charlie Bailey’s final season in 1999.

As far as 2000, yeah, there would have been people hanging off the mountains to watch that TCU game had it been played in El Paso. The week before against Rice, there were so many people in the Sun Bowl, that some people were actually sitting on the flat white “El Paso, Texas” painting behind the endzone, on the southside of the stadium.

Having to play at TCU two years in a row was a bad break. But even as it was, after we beat Rice, every flight out of El Paso to the Dallas area was immediately sold out for that 2000 TCU game. Miner fans showed up, unfortunately our team didn’t.

 

[Cube Jack]

1999 our team made LaDainian Tomlinson famous when he rushed for a then record 406 yards and 6 TDs. In 2000 UTEP would clinch the WAC title outright if they beat TCU. They got stomped 47-14 at Amon Carter Stadium and held Tomlinson to only 305 yards rushing and 3 TDS that time.

 

[unihorn]

It's after year one or two that things go south. UTEP does not offer enough to keep assistants. Former Kug assistant Theron Aych is a perfect example. Hot stud head coach out of Angelo State. Kug snatched him up. One year later he's coaching against UTEP on the Arizona sideline.

This is UTEP football. Basketball developed into it's own thing because of obvious reasons. The next coach has to prove it is because of him. Price and Kug failed in that department.

The task is daunting to say the least.

How do you define "successful?" To me, the last truly successful turnaround here was performed by Stull.