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$99 for 18 games is a great deal!!
$99 for 18 games is a great deal!!
UTEP Selling Discounted Men’s Basketball Season Tickets Thursday
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Not bad for the nose bleeds but I don't qualify since I used to have season tickets. Its only for new accounts..
I say do this every year when UTEP is struggling, but I feel bad for the people who are loyal and buy tickets at regular price.
I say sell football tickets for $5.
UTEP has lived off the same season ticket holders for fourty years. Now they are dying off and nobody is replacing them. We've all seen this coming for years. UTEP milked 66 for all they could. Problem is UTEP never built on it. We're in a weird club with San Francisco and Loyola schools who won championships and didn't do much after. The delusions of grandeur that surround the basketball program in the athletic program is an absolute joke and has stunted the growth of the entire athletic program for decades. Tradition has to be built on or it disappears. Any tradition UTEP hoops had is long gone. Now we are in a one bid league where the regular season is irrelevant. Try to sell hoops season tickets to a new generation who don't associate UTEP basketball with winning. It's not going to be easy.
UTEP basketball needs to build a new legacy going forward. Its not too late. This won't happen with Floyd. The looking back, the turnover and the antics just weigh the program down like a pair of cement shoes.
If you haven't listened to him talk or coach yet, pay attention to Kevin Baker. I think he is the real deal for the woman's team. We need somebody with his attitude and passion to coach the men.
If you haven't listened to him talk or coach yet, pay attention to Kevin Baker. I think he is the real deal for the woman's team. We need somebody with his attitude and passion to coach the men.
Absolutely correct! I purchased basketball season tickets in row 10 back when Barbee was here. We stayed in the same seats for a few years (LOVED THEM) We developed great friends the first year. Both couples beside us were relatively young and we all had a blast together. We would meet up for dinner and drinks prior to every game. One couple had a second child and gave up their tickets. The other moved to Austin. One side sat empty for a few years, the other a UTEP professor bought and he would show up maybe 2 games a year. Behind us was a super sweet older lady and her sister. She had been in those seats since the Don opened. 2 years ago, she told us she had to stop coming because of the stairs and she was giving up her seats. I don't see people sitting there regularly anymore either.
I moved 2 years ago, and again this year. I will probably stay where I am now until I can't go anymore. I am no spring chicken and what is UTEP doing to get my son to follow? Nothing.
UTEP fails to try to get the next generation hooked. While I know it may be difficult to figure out an honest way to do it, but why isn't there a way to have a season ticket child price in the donor section? Why should my 5 year old have to pay the same price as me when he loses interest 5 minutes into the game and is on his tablet? (Meh, I couldn't get a 3rd seat anyway. None available)
The other thing they do is they sell the donor seats to more companies then they do to individuals. Last year, the 2 rows in front of me we taken by UTEP athletes. I see the ladies team sitting there again this year. Why are they not selling those seats? Where is the push to get folks in the stands?
In addition, the donor prices are very high, especially with the product Floyd puts out there. They offer a payment plan but who knows this? Hell, I didn/t notice it was available until year 3. (I am told payment plans are only for renewals.) You know how hard it is to come up with $1600 for friggin basketball? If I sometimes struggle getting it together, I KNOW the next generation will have a hard time right now too.
As I ramble once again.....
When NMSU is your best home game, who wants to pay for those games? Louisiana College is D3 and it's not an exhibition. Lamar, UIW, Washington St and UNM are all terrible teams. Plus all the CUSA trash. Not to mention UTEP and Tim Floyd. Fans have given up and don't want to see this coach anymore.
There are corporate chains who sell UTEP merchandise. If it didn't sell, off the rack it goes and into the back storage with the pool noodles and solar dancing Santa for your car dash. UTEP investment has brought in a lot of private investment around Mesa and on campus. Compare 1997 and 2017 area around UTEP and you can literally see the difference. Private business tries to invest off 66 team but you can not compare not so good private management with UTEP public investment in the 66 Texas Western event.
Now with the one bid league I totally agree with that, however, when you play a P5 school, beat the P5 school a little more often than just once every few years. UTEP has done that but they lose to a small school, blow an important in conference game in late February and also fail to get past the CUSA semi's come tourney time. That is on Floyd, not anyone else.
Would UNLV be considered a one championship wonder? How about Michigan? Then there's Houston and UT Austin who never won any at all.
UNLV has multiple final four trips and still make the tourney regularly. UNLV isn't a one hit wonder.
Same with Michigan multiple final fours, regularly goes dancing.
Houston went to multiple final fours in the eighties. Their program had a slow two decades, it seems to now be on the upswing. Wouldn't label them a basketball power, or blueblood.
Texas is the most consistent program in Texas far and away more tourney appearances then anyone else in Texas. Haven't won a championship done everything else. Biggest thing with them is their consistency.
UTEP has 66 and then a seven year run in the late eighties early nineties. We only have one sweet sixteen appearance and out side of that stretch a whole lot of nothing. The past quarter century being especially bad. That why we are a one hot wonder. Unlike the other schools you've mentioned we haven't sustained excellence or went to multiple final fours. We're in that strange club San Francisco and Loyola (IL).
Fair enough. It really is hard to say we are basketball power of any kind given our lack of success in recent years. We are at a quarter century since our last NCAA Tournament win. In that Time UT Austin has made 6 Sweet 16 appearances and one Final Four. Michigan has made 5 Sweet 16 appearances, 2 Final Four appearences and has finished runner up twice. And yes, I still count the 1993 team. We have had a whole lot of nothing outside of the WAC Championship in 2005, and I can’t believe that was 12 years ago at this point. Getting beat by Maryland, UTAH and Butler are not something I want to hang my hat upon.
Didn't UTEP win the CUSA regular season championship in 2010?
Also, UT doesn't give a crap about winning a national bball title. Sure, they would love to, but their pride and joy is football. Literally, nobody cares what happened in 1966. No recruits, coaches, it means nothing today. It's a nice banner to have and it's better to have one than not, but nobody at UT gives a crap that UTEP won it.
UNLV and Houston are better basketball programs too because they aren't in CUSA, don't accept losing, and don't hold onto the past like UTEP. Only associates of Haskins and El Pasoans think that 1966-1992 matters today. Get a grip and realize that UTEP basketball isn't even on NMSUs level.
Also, UT doesn't give a crap about winning a national bball title. Sure, they would love to, but their pride and joy is football. Literally, nobody cares what happened in 1966. No recruits, coaches, it means nothing today. It's a nice banner to have and it's better to have one than not, but nobody at UT gives a crap that UTEP won it.
UNLV and Houston are better basketball programs too because they aren't in CUSA, don't accept losing, and don't hold onto the past like UTEP. Only associates of Haskins and El Pasoans think that 1966-1992 matters today. Get a grip and realize that UTEP basketball isn't even on NMSUs level.
The olds that buy season tickets and still go to the games care.
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