Author: kyyote

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Here is the cycle.  Spring Football signals a fresh start.  Then we spend all summer anxiously waiting.  We can’t show we are as bad as last year until we play a game this year.  Finally, after months of waiting and anticipating, we play our first game.  We stink. But, it is only one game.  Then we play a second game and all hope is dashed.  We are not any better than last year’s team, and very possibly worse.  Two weeks into the 13 week season Miners fans season is done.  From this point on we are prisoners of war, to be abused, tortured, and humiliated.  By week two, Miners fans have switched to our own little world of Endurance. Finally, after two and a half more months of Hell, we are released.  In the Spring, we begin the cycle all over.

Battered Wife Syndrome?  You love him and he says he is sorry and will do better, but like the seasons, the inevitable happens and he does it again.  The beatings and public humiliation starts all over again.  You can’t leave him.  There are the kids, and your family, the ties are there, the roots run deep.  You mother was a victim, too.  It is all you have ever known.  There’s nothing to be done.  You can’t just leave for someone else.  This is your family.  Sorry, I have complained too much, already and I am sure I will get another beating for it.  Fuck the beatings!  I’m used to them, and they don’t hardly even hurt, anymore. I’m tough.  He has beat me hundreds of times before, and I’m still here.  I love him, and he promised he will be really nice from now on.  Bruises heal.  Broken bones heal.

more than Kugler-THE RUNNING GAME ONLY COACH!! After two games the UTEP MINERS behind Kugler’s Bully Boys have less than 100 yards rushing! Kugler is a shitty football coach but a pretty damned good thief. I don’t know what he gets paid by the game, but he is just stealing UTEP’s and the UTEP fan’s money. Its like he walked around pick pocketing the fans at the game, For him to stand there all mad is a fucking joke. Tell me how it is on you, you thick headed idiot. Like we don’t know who is responsible for the fucking abortion you smeared all over the Sun Bowl turf. But, you got us some new, old school uniforms and helmets. Cute. The money spent on uniforms and helmets could have been better spent paying Sean to go back to fucking New York and bully boy it up where he would be appreciated for the tough guy he is. What an ass hat! Instead of “My bad” which we already know, how about you understand that it is the football program and not just a game that is YOUR BAD! Your bad is so bad you shouldn’t be in the position to continue “YOUR BAD!”

Can you fucking imagine the poor players having to go to practice? How many of you would keep showing up to work if your job was to be humiliated once a week in front of thousands of family, friends, and neighbors? Week after week? I have not only lost all respect for Kugler that I might have had, I now consider him to be a thief and he is doing his theft using the backs of young men to commit his crime. And he knows it! And that makes him a scum sucking dog! Look in the mirror, Sean. If any one of your players performed the way you do, you would be blowing out your forehead veins screaming and yelling at him and he wouldn’t have the job! He would be run off for being worthless! Well, that worthless bastard is you, SEAN!

When comparing the UTEP Defense going up against the Top 5 ranked OU Offense here are some numbers that should give us some hope. The Miners’ defense allowed 4.7 yards per rushing attempt to OU, BUT, Rice allowed Stanford 8 yards a carry. Gets even better when we look at pass defense. UTEP gave up 13.8 yards per catch, BUT Rice gave up 17.6 yards a catch to Stanford. OU averaged 9.1 yards per play and Stanford averaged 9.

Offensively, UTEP …averaged 3.8 yards a play and Rice averaged 3.9.

When Sean Kugler became the Head Coach of the Miners he stated that he wanted to make the UTEP football over in the image of the Rice program.  That sounded ok at the time because in 2012 Rice won 7 games and in the next two seasons they won 10 and 8 more.  Plus, they are smart.  The Stanford of Texas some might say.  But, the last two years, Rice has returned to a place more familiar to the Rice program, the basement and ground level of the conference.  Meanwhile, the Miners are going to class and getting good grades.  Nobody is going to mistake our Harvard on the Border with Rice academically, but our guys would compete.  Last year, the Miners won more football games, too.  So Saturday’s game is a chance to see who does it better,  the Miners, imitating the Owls or the originals.  As of right now, the experts think it is just about a coin flip.  Which is the better doormat?  Sorry, this is just the second game of the season and my cynicism sometimes comes out.

What can we expect on Saturday at the Sun Bowl?  It is the Home Opener for the Miners and with more than a century of horrid football, the Miners fans don’t let an opening day of the season drubbing keep them from coming out for a nice evening get together.  That one doesn’t count we say.  We need the money so we prostitute ourselves out to the sick bastard that likes to beat his hookers up.  We know it, but even hooers need to pay the rent.  The bruises heal, and he didn’t break any bones this time.  So, now we are ready to fight that bitch on our corner.  It isn’t going to be pretty, and it isn’t really going to be a fight.  Two hags, biting with toothless mouths and scratching with fingernails bitten to the quick.  Mostly they will pull each other’s hair and clinch.  Winner and loser will be hard to tell at the end because it really wasn’t much of a fight, but those keeping score will give us a declared winner and loser.  Fight fans will not be impressed.  For those out there who hate the thought of two old broads fighting on the street, if it makes you feel better, no one will probably even land a punch.  Both hate throwing punches because they are the ones that usually get the shit knocked out of them as soon as they come out of the fetal position.  So, this will be like two sumo wrestlers trying to make each other be the inside person while spooning.

Both teams despise the forward pass.  Woody Hayes and Vince Lombardi butting heads.  If you like excitement, you might be better off lying on the couch watching women’s golf.  They whisper so as not to wake you from your nap.  Oddly enough, the Owls hate the pass so much they don’t even lie about it.  The Miners do.  But, the Miners actually have a quarterback that has the ability to pass.  So, it will be the Rice Owls running with no other thought at all against the Miners running, which when it fails as it usually does forcing the use of the hated passer.  That my friends is the wild card factor in this game.  They don’t pass and can’t.  We don’t pass but can.  The forward pass wins the game.  Almost accidently.  In spite of the head coach’s wishes it will be a pass that wins the game and not the pushing and shoving.  One of the sumo wrestlers is going to stop pushing and shoving long enough to throw a punch and it will be the difference.

Note to UTEP marketing.  Instead of foam fingered number ones, foam pillows for the snooze might be nice.  Never mind, the soccer fans doing the wave and playing with the beach balls will make it hard to do more that cat nap during the Miners’ offensive possessions.

After two games, Sean will be able to say his team has won as many as he has lost this year and back on track for a bowl eligible season.  Nothing blooms much in the desert around El Paso at anytime during the year, but in September, Miners Orange Hope, Optimism, and Renewal blossoms come out, signaling survival of another El Paso summer and another lottery ticket for a chance to win the football lottery.  Yep, like getting hit by lightning twice on your birthday inside Carlsbad Caverns.  We always hope that somehow, someway we can at least win back the price of our ticket.

I think I am just about ready for the first Home game, against a fellow miserable C-USA member.  Here we go again.  Go Miners!

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