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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
(05-27-2014 09:28 AM)Fitbud Wrote: Whatever it is, I hope it is something that eventually gets us into the MWC.
Yeah. Getting UTEP in the MWC is the goal here. I'm pulling for the Miners.
Once they go, CUSA can add TXST. :)
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
(05-27-2014 09:36 AM)jarmzet Wrote: (05-27-2014 09:28 AM)Fitbud Wrote: Whatever it is, I hope it is something that eventually gets us into the MWC.
Yeah. Getting UTEP in the MWC is the goal here. I'm pulling for the Miners.
Once they go, CUSA can add TXST. :)
There will always be some UTEP fans wanting into the MWC because of our past associations with a number of those schools. But in reality, I don't see the advantage of playing Wyoming or Colorado St over USM and LTU. Or playing SJSU and Nevada over playing UTSA and UNT. Or playing Fresno St and SDSU over playing Rice and WKU. Even basketball is going to be just fine in C-USA with Charlotte, LT, USM, UAB, WKU, MT, UTEP, ODU with others hopefully coming up to snuff.
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
Geographically, UTEP belongs in the Mountain West.
I think a lot of UTEP fans also prefer the old rivalries over the new one's in CUSA.
That hard truth however is that the MWC has multiple basketball bids and better bowls.
UTEP should strive to be in a conference like that.
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
(05-27-2014 11:04 AM)Fitbud Wrote: Geographically, UTEP belongs in the Mountain West.
I think a lot of UTEP fans also prefer the old rivalries over the new one's in CUSA.
That hard truth however is that the MWC has multiple basketball bids and better bowls.
UTEP should strive to be in a conference like that.
You have a pattern of writing your opinion in a thread, which is fine, and then rewriting it after damn near every other post in that thread. You apparently have to have the last word no matter what. It's getting very tiresome.
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
I think we're done with that love of playing mwc schools. Other than basketball those schools in the mwc aren't any different than what we have now in cusa. It "might" be a little better than cusa but I'm hopeful and positive that cusa will equal if not surpass them in football and basketball. We have a lot of good basketball teams in cusa. Football is stronger by virtue of what cusa teams did in bowls with the mwc.
Fit can go to the mwc or pac 12 if he likes but I want UTEP to stay in cusa.
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
So any news on the announcement?
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
(05-27-2014 11:18 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote: (05-27-2014 11:04 AM)Fitbud Wrote: Geographically, UTEP belongs in the Mountain West.
I think a lot of UTEP fans also prefer the old rivalries over the new one's in CUSA.
That hard truth however is that the MWC has multiple basketball bids and better bowls.
UTEP should strive to be in a conference like that.
You have a pattern of writing your opinion in a thread, which is fine, and then rewriting it after damn near every other post in that thread. You apparently have to have the last word no matter what. It's getting very tiresome.
I would rather UTEP be in MWC over CUSA. That is my opinion.
Everything else I said is a fact.
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
@BeauKTSMKDBC: UTEP announces new video boards for the sun bowl, Haskins ctr and sign on Mesa street @NC9 @Local4KDBC http://t.co/DG1E8VF4hx
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
@sbnminerrush: Video board in Sun Bowl will be largest in C-USA
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
@MinerManiac: UTEP announces 4 new video scoreboards to be installed. Haskins center will add 2 new 12x40 video boards. Costs to upgrade will be 3.4 mil
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
Edit: answer on other page.
Pretty cool, but underwhelming. I guess I just don't consider new video boards to be a major upgrade.
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
(05-27-2014 01:56 PM)mistabinks Wrote: @sbnminerrush: Video board in Sun Bowl will be largest in C-USA
Were there video boards already in the stadium, or is this the first?
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
ya...that's a letdown...
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
Those are good upgrades.
4' by 96" auxiliary boards?
Are those like the one's that run the length of the field at player level?
Or do they mean this?
(This post was last modified: 05-27-2014 04:17 PM by Fitbud.)
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
(05-27-2014 02:23 PM)Surbadger Wrote: (05-27-2014 01:56 PM)mistabinks Wrote: @sbnminerrush: Video board in Sun Bowl will be largest in C-USA
Were there video boards already in the stadium, or is this the first?
No, this will be an upgrade to the current video board.
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
(05-27-2014 01:56 PM)mistabinks Wrote: @sbnminerrush: Video board in Sun Bowl will be largest in C-USA
Nyah, nyah, na, na, nyah!
Just messin' wid ya.
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
Its 4 times the existing video board, but I expected a bigger announcement..... Every gain, is a gain tho.
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
(05-27-2014 02:01 PM)Niner National Wrote: Edit: answer on other page.
Pretty cool, but underwhelming. I guess I just don't consider new video boards to be a major upgrade.
I agree that its underwhelming. Should have been advertised as an upgrade announcement not a major upgrade announcement.
Still, it will be very nice for the fans. A 34 x 60 video board will offer great views of replays, controversial calls, etc. Should be fun.
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RE: UTEP to announce major athletic facilities uprades on Tuesday 5-27
(05-27-2014 09:47 AM)MinerInWisconsin Wrote: (05-27-2014 09:36 AM)jarmzet Wrote: (05-27-2014 09:28 AM)Fitbud Wrote: Whatever it is, I hope it is something that eventually gets us into the MWC.
Yeah. Getting UTEP in the MWC is the goal here. I'm pulling for the Miners.
Once they go, CUSA can add TXST. :)
There will always be some UTEP fans wanting into the MWC because of our past associations with a number of those schools. But in reality, I don't see the advantage of playing Wyoming or Colorado St over USM and LTU. Or playing SJSU and Nevada over playing UTSA and UNT. Or playing Fresno St and SDSU over playing Rice and WKU. Even basketball is going to be just fine in C-USA with Charlotte, LT, USM, UAB, WKU, MT, UTEP, ODU with others hopefully coming up to snuff.
totally agree...I did like the days of the old WAC (MWC)
when we first joined with Utah, BYU, Arizona and ASU but those days are over. UNM is always fun but other school rivalries like Wyoming, CSU and Air Force have diminished.
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