When you have an " undesirable location" to recruit to you better have some top notch facilities.
UTEP Football indoor facility question
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Point is they've realized five winning seasons in 30 years isn't working. So they're doing what they can to be more competitive in today's world of college football.
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UMass Athletics’ Indoor Facility Complete and Operational | UMass Amherst
A seasonal, air-supported indoor facility to support UMass’s entire athletic department is complete and operational for team-use. The new turf practice field, built behind McGuirk Alumni Stadium’s west bleachers, serves to benefit UMass’s entire athletic department and its student-athletes...
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To answer your question, yes.
But still won 11 games 1 year, won a conference championship, won bowl games, and beaten P5 teams without those things.
Which of those has UTEP done?
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UMass Athletics’ Indoor Facility Complete and Operational | UMass Amherst
A seasonal, air-supported indoor facility to support UMass’s entire athletic department is complete and operational for team-use. The new turf practice field, built behind McGuirk Alumni Stadium’s west bleachers, serves to benefit UMass’s entire athletic department and its student-athletes...
To answer your question, yes.
That wasn't the original question you posed. Stop moving the goal posts. You've been doing that every time facts presented prove your statements bs.
Everything is not apples to apples. My question is how did SJSU accomplish those things without an IPF or stadium improvements and less fans than UTEP?
They only thing they accomplished before they announced and broke grounds on their facility improvements was one 11 win season and one bowl win that same year.
Kind of embarrassing that even with less fan support they can get the funds for those type of projects.
Obviously that's not enough for them. Or else they would have been content to wait another 20-30 years for their next flash in the pan successful season.
If you announce and break grounds, what does that matter if you’re not going to play in it? How did they accomplish those things though? You’re still not answering. Could it be they had better players and coaches??
Yes the perfect storm brewed for them in 2012. They hired a good coach he accomplished something historic and left. The following coaches were unable to maintain the momentum. Since it took an anomaly covid season before they had a winning team again.
I saw and article once that when Texas won the National Championship at the Rose Bowl, the Football Program made something over 100 million (don't remember the exact number) that year, but they also had just over 100 million in expenses. The net profit was in the 10s of millions.
The two big Alabama schools were saddling future students with mortgages for paying off gigantic screen upgrades, to have claim to the biggest jumbotron in the world (until some other school though they should get in on the action and get in to debt for...errr...invest in the football program).
It worked for Clemson, their football facility with movie theater, bowling alley, pool hall, food court, and countless other extravagant amenities, exclusively for football players. They attracted the best talent and got a national championship I am sure they are still paying for. Upgrades like that are worth more than the entire UTEP athletic program budget.
UTEP cannot compete, we don't have a sugar daddy like Phil Knight with Oregon, or what Boone Pickens did for Oklahoma St. We are part of a university system that has no interest in our success, since it would be detrimental to the flagship campus' success. We are lucky the system doesn't try to kill our programs, like the Alabama system did to the UAB program.
Amazon just opened a distribution center in El Chuco. Perhaps we can get them to pony up a few million to upgrade our athletic facilities. 🤪
Here's how UTEP can raise funds for its future, world class indoor practice facility. We just have to decide what to package and sell. Ideas peeps? 🤡
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Have to rent or buy a bus every day you want to use it as a team. Do you think about stuff before you type it? Or just whatever pops up, you just type?
Who says we cant cant??? Now that UTEP and NMSU are conference mates maybe they should start helping each other out. Get the funds together and build a multi sports complex. On one side its Uteps and the other side its NMSUs. Just tear down La Tuna and put it there.
UTEP has team buses it wouldn't cost anything. They have to get team buses to go to training camp in New Mexico. They could cancel the training camp in New Mexico and train in the new sports complex.
