Think of football in terms of professional boxing. Two fighters enter the ring. One wins and one loses. The spread is lots of jabs and haymakers, bouncing around but no defense and gets hit a lot, too. There is the classic boxer/puncher. Think Bama. Great defense, uses jabs to set up the right cross and the left hook to follow. Body blows to drop the hands. Tyson when he was young. Sparring partner tomato cans take the beatings and do almost nothing but grapple and try to survive, clenching non-stop trying to get through another round. We have spent years before and after Price being the later. Price was out there throwing haymakers, hooks, the kitchen sink, and yes, he got hit a lot and he lost too many fights but at least he was fighting. We have not even been Chuck Wepner. We have been the fighter being booed by everyone for not only not putting up a fight, but clinching so much that it just makes everyone mad.
How about each field goal is a scoring jab and every touchdown is a solid right. In most of our games, the ref would have stopped the fights.
So, yeah, I would love for us to send a fighter into the ring wearing UTEP colors than a punching bag. Getting beat up while assuming the fetal position was what we have been doing. Fucking humiliating and disgusting. We may have lost games under Price, for sure too many, but I was never disgusted by one of his teams. We could punch, and mother fuckers better back the fuck up! Fuck with us and you may win, but you won't walk the fuck over us. Amazing what the tough guy did, isn't it! The tough guy turned us into a nice kid with good grades who gets beat up and pissed on by others, non-bullys that are so disgusted by our cowering, and feeble girly punches that even they take extra shots at us while we beg for mercy.
I was disappointed at the end of Price's tenure. I have been flat out disgusted by Kugler;s performance for some time. Yes, I would love to not be disgusted by my school's representation on the football field. There have been times when I was happy and even proud of the football team. I would love to get away from disgusted and embarrassed.
If you get a scoop that I won't have to be embarrassed or disgusted, please don't hold back. I am ready and need to hear it. Right now, I feel like our Titanic had a new captain coptered in to get some order to the rearranging of the deck chairs and find a new band leader.
edit: The doctor has limited my coffee intake and as you may be able to tell there are times when it may have an affect on me.
