There's no shame in losing to SMU, but a good team would've made it a game.
UNT is not good and UTEP is worse.
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If UTEP can put up 13 against Oklahoma, the Miners should have more than doubled that against UNT. Shows how poorly we played against them.
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Did you see the whole game? I don't know why everyone is acting oblivious to the fact that UTEP easily left 24 points on the board against N. Texas. I feel like some fans don't really pay attention to the game and are too quick to just say UTEP sucks like they always have. It's blatantly obvious UTEP matched N. Texas offensively by yardage, but failed on opportunities. No score at the 1, missed FG, dropped TD pass, TD pass called back for a hold. Sometimes the game of football is more than the final score people!
That is a function of the suckitude. It’s not like that’s a new phenomenon for the Miners. That’s been one of the main criticisms of Dimel’s offense is how we’ve moved the ball between the 20s decently then whether thru penalties, turnovers or dumb decisions, we end drives without putting points on the board. That has been a near constant.
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I actually thought Hardison played one of his better games against OU.
Cowing covered up alot of his flaws a year ago. But against OU he did a good job finding the intermediate routes
Cowing covered up alot of his flaws a year ago. But against OU he did a good job finding the intermediate routes
He has played smarter, also has zero interceptions. OU, is just better period. I thought once. the Miners settled down, they looked better. They probably did all they could against a team with the talent OU has. One thing, that was obvious. OU hit, and hit hard. Beating NMSU is a must, this weekend!
Year five and UTEP football is stuck on rule #1
players are above average for utep standards but the offensive coaches suck (im referring to dimel)
I agree 100% and idk of they'll actually fix that issue this year. What I'm saying is people are simply going by score implying N. Texas is that much better than UTEP. Utep after 2 games had one were they started hot, but couldn't finish and another where they were out of the game in the 1st 15 minutes then settled down. I hope we put it together before too long and the get right game should be this Saturday!
Should have, could have, same old story.
We couldn't punch the ball into the endzone because UNT was playing bend but don't break. We couldn't run the ball on them because their line pushed us around. In the first half, they answered every score with one of their own. Then they took the lead. They gifted us the ball in their own redzone at the end of the half, and UTEP could not punch it in.
The only way UTEP could score a touchdown against them was to beat them with a deep ball.
In the 2nd half, UNT dropped 8 into coverage and UTEP had no answer. And UNT kept scoring and UTEP couldn't stop them. UNT ran effectively and passed effectively and UTEP was just pushed around and could not stop them.
UNT made stops and UTEP did not. Don't tell me about how UTEP should have won by so many points. UTEP didn't score those points because UNT stopped them, and then UTEP couldn't stop them.
I'm disappointed at the UNT loss and then the way UNT lost.
I think we're looking at a 1-4 start.
I think we're looking at a 1-4 start.
If you’re predicting it, then it probably means we will start 3-2
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Maybe my issue with the bolded statement is semantics. If you were to tell me that UNT's defense bent but didn't break in the game I would definitely agree with you. But the way it's worded seems to say that bending but not breaking was their defensive strategy. I'm no football coach, so maybe I'm wrong, but I can't see a defensive coordinator telling his guys to play lackadaisical until a team gets into the red zone, and then toughen up. No team wants their opponent to get inside the 20. Besides, as others have pointed out, failing to score in the red zone has been a consistent issue with this team. The problem is not that opposing defenses are just giving us the middle 60 yards of the field and then stiffening up once we get into the red zone. The problem is that our offense has the ability to move the ball against most of the defenses we face, but our play calling sucks, and we make stupid mistakes, once we get near the goal line.
Another problem we have is wasting timeouts. In both games we burned an unnecessary timeout early in the game. When we recovered the fumble against UNT late in the first half we were forced to take shots into the end zone, when an extra time out would have opened up the field. Against OU we had a nice last minute drive going to try to set up a field goal. An extra timeout would have opened up the field again, but we needed something on the sidelines in order to stop the clock. Nothing was open and Hardison ended up taking a sack.
In my opinion our lack of scoring could be fixed if Dimel would relinquish play calling duty and hire a good offensive coordinator.
If Dimel is as good as we wish he was, he would learn to delegate tasks. IE an offensive coordinator/play caller. Koogler had the same problem delegating his ST coordinator to recruit a field goal kicker.
Yea I didn't expext you to do a simple math problem. For future reference, 1 win plus 4 losses equals 5 games.
Fixed it for you and a bit more specific. Dimel’s offense is this teams Achilles heel!
There's no shame in losing to SMU, but a good offensive coach would've made it a game.
Bend but don't break is about making your opponent earn everything. Make them execute all the way down the field, and if they make a mistake, their drive stalls. And yes, tighten up at the endzone, but nowhere did I say that bend but don't break entails letting your opponent inside the 20.
