(02-03-2017 04:17 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  UTEP is not going anywhere. Its chances of dropping football are as big as East Carolina's which is zero. UTEP will always have the advantages that the vast majority of G5 schools wish they have: a solid fan support, no P5 schools and pro teams nearby, a near monopoly in coverage in the El Paso media, the backing of the El Paso business community and the entire town as well. UTEP's issues are internal not external (hint: a complacent AD) but the foundation is there for a new AD to take it to the next level. UTEP could be in the MWC and the record in both FB and BB would be the same or worse. Conference affiliation helps in many ways but as Boise State proved in the WAC and Gonzaga in the WCC, a weak conference and geography can't keep you from achieving success. As much as we complain about C-USA, we just need to look at our neighbor 45 miles away to see that we're thankful that at least we have a conference to call home.

Ok. My guy doesn't like the AD at all. He also thought that UTEP would get a baseball program started when you guys got the new triple A stadium going. I'll admit, I don't know much about that. He loves baseball. I've been to the Sun Bowl and like it a lot. I'm also quite fond of UTEP's basketball history Haskins, the NCAA championship and the Hardaway "UTEP two step". I'm very familiar with Tim Floyd and his teams at Iowa St. I figured he'd help take UTEP back to past glory. I agree that UTEP has an advantage of being in a nice market with no other competition. It's only been recently that I heard of attendence issues in both football and basketball (which was never the case before now) and the internal struggles/frustrations. You guys know more about the state of your program than me obviously. Sorry if you think I was being disrespectful to a former conference mate. That wasn't my intention.
Cheers!