Good Ol Utep from previous years is back. This is not the same team we've been watching this year. From coaching to play on the field they look plain Bad! I'm not sure what happened during the 3 weeks off, but they were not ready for UTSA today and that's sad with that much time to prepare.
UTEP vs UTSA: Game Thread
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Utsa is a better team and has better coaching.
They got to start tackling in practice. This has to be the worst tackling team in division one football. I understand they want to keep players from getting hurt and practice, but it's really showing in the way that we play. Everyone else just seems to be a lot more physical than we are.
I don’t think they out athlete us all that much. I really feel like their play calling has put them in this position to win today.
They started by neutralizing our pass rush by getting the ball out of Harris’ hand quickly, and then threw a variety of plays at us that were unpredictable and kept our defense off balance.
Bottom line: UTSA came prepared and ready to play. We didn’t.
This is just too painful to watch. We regressed significantly on defense and our offense has been very inconsistent.
Agree. It’s like the last 3 weeks we’ve been playing two hand touch at practice. We have been “out physicaled“ today.
I respect your opinion but I’ve seen better athletes on the utsa side or maybe they’re just hungrier in this game.
We have no clue in any aspect of the game. Hapless, hopeless, clueless.
Once again we are playing against a team with coaches that makes adjustments and for whatever reason we don’t
Hungrier, definitely not better but equal. Inefficiency on offensive side.
Definitely better depth as you mentioned JC. For sure more playmakers on offense, and wide receivers specifically. Add to that, a very predictable offensive game plan on our part, and this is the result. There are still many areas that require upgrading talent wise. On a side note, if Dimel is the offensive play caller, he needs to fire himself. He isn't doing this young team any favors.
This was measuring stick game for the program and we didn't stack up. The season had been smoke and mirrors. We've won three games two against fcs schools and one against the worst team in fbs. We still haven't won a conference game. The team took a big step back today. Very disappointing loss. I hope we get to play the three more games that are currently scheduled. To claim this program is getting better we need to win a couple of those games. We can't go three years with one conference win.
this is embarrassing. Almost as bad as that ass whipping Army laid on us in the Sun Bowl
Bingo. For those that don't blame Dimel. He never makes adjustments. He doesn't set his team up for success. Atleast not to win. It's always lets play safe. He has beat a bad ULM and nothing else. That's not improvement.
When it rains on UTEP football, it's a biblical flooding.
That’s what it seems like to me. And they were put in position to make things happen. Both offensively and defensively.
UTSA knew our game plan and quickly adjusted to it. We never seemed to have a clue what they were gonna do and therefore never adjusted to their play calling.
We got out played and out coached.
Bottom line, not happy with the outcome but I’ll be back for more next week...provided we get to play.
My Miner rallying call is getting weaker by the game, though.
Go Miners (in a barely audible voice)!
My Miner rallying call is getting weaker by the game, though.
Go Miners (in a barely audible voice)!
Embarrassing. The EP community could have used a win. They had Babe talk to them before the game. UTSAs defensive coordinator is placed on admin before the game, and they still played a solid game.
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Lost my faith in Hardison. He had 2 good performances vs Sub D1. He's not a D1 QB. He never steps into the pocket, always on his back foot backing out of the Pocket. The Offensive Tackles can't set an edge because he just keeps dropping giving DE's great angles. I dont think he makes great reads either and misses too many open wr's
Got to admit Frank Wilson left Traylor with a fairly fully stocked kitchen. I would've given Wilson one more year but college FBS is "what have you done for me lately?" sports.
I respectfully disagree. This qb is the real deal. I remember fans were ready to throw in the towel on Palmer his first year; it turned out differently. The dude has a canon for an arm.
Need to get back to giving him more short throws and how about a throw to the TE every once in a while
I assume that Utep’s coaches are so arrogant they believe that adjustments show weakness. Kulger would fit in great with this coaching staff.
President Wilson should be embarrassed letting this go on and on and on.
COVID be damned some people need to join the unemployment
President Wilson should be embarrassed letting this go on and on and on.
COVID be damned some people need to join the unemployment
He does have a cannon but when he aims for Colorado he often hits somewhere up in Canada.
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I think we might need to recruit one first.
UTSA DC Nix on leave amid internal investigation
UTSA defensive coordinator Tyrone Nix is on administrative leave amid an internal investigation, the school announced Saturday.
Their dc didn’t coach and they still shut us out in the second half. I wonder what’s the story with him.
Our offense produced about as much as I expected but I did expect a much better defensive effort. That did not come close to the defense we saw against LT or even Charlotte. If you saw the LT vs UTSA game or the UTSA vs BYU game then you know that UTSA has a very good defense.
Forgot...coachless, spineless, motivationless, desire less, gritless.
Right about where Dimel thinks we should be in his year 5, except he still needs to get us up into the 75-100 range in national recruiting like UTSA has done the past 4-5 years
And we were right there with them for 2 1/2 quarters. Maybe even “should” have been leading coming out of the half.
Despite the win-loss column, I’m pleased with the way this team has played...especially on the defensive side of the ball. They’re not “there” yet. But they are way beyond where I thought they’d be before the season started.
