A Long Sigh...."I See", Said the Blind Man and If IT Offends...

[kyyote]

I love UTEP.  It is my school.  I enrolled in 1982 and graduated in 1986.  I have been a fan since the day I started classes and I will love her until the day I die and so of course I will be a fan until then, too.  As a UTEP football fan you learn to be prepared for bad in ways that other people can only have nightmares about.  But, like the one-armed bandits at the casino off of the highway there are just enough payouts to keep you coming back, right after you leave the pawn shop.  The basketball has been a little better, but not a lot.   Like the tadpole shrimp that appear from seemingly out of nowhere at Album Park after the monsoon season creates the big ponds over the soccer and football fields below, UTEP fans are just waiting for an opportunity to support our teams more than in silent desperation.  Public humiliations aren't what they're cracked up to be and perhaps over the decades they have taken their toll on this Miner.  The orange coating on the lenses of my orange colored glasses has worn thin, I am afraid.
The Athletic Director just up and retired, after the Head Coach of the Football team, a former player of the AD's, just up and quit in the middle of the season, one that would end up being a winless season, followed by the sudden retirement of the Favorite Son basketball Head Coach!  Now, almost any fan in the world would be asking just what in the Hell is going on?  But,...

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http://www.kyyotesden.com/a-long-sigh-i-see-said-the-blind-man-and-if-it-offends/

[liebestraum]

UTEP used to have bumper stickers that said it was Harvard on the Border.  Get it right, Ky.

lieb

[kyyote]

I know, but Harvard football isn't the kind of football power team that UTEP and don't even try. they are Harvard.  Now if Natalicio came out and said we aren't going to try because we are UTEP I could appreciate the honesty.  But, nope that ain't it.  Supposedly, we are trying, like Stanford.  We just can play football like Stanford.  And maybe we can't play academics like Stanford either.  But, that what we aspire to be.  At least that's what UTEP is selling.

[SisyphusMiner]

Stanford is in Northern Cali and has like a bajillion dollars

[kyyote]

I grew up 20 minutes from Stanford and my first big football game was Stanford versus Cal when I was about 10 years old.  I know Stanford.  Evidently, Natalicio is under the impression that we are the Stanford of the Borderlands.  The only difference is that we don't have any money, don't have the academic prestige, and can't play football.  Other than that, we are just like Stanford.  Oh, and the whole forrest and desert thing.

[liebestraum]

I grew up 20 minutes from Stanford and my first big football game was Stanford versus Cal when I was about 10 years old.  I know Stanford.  Evidently, Natalicio is under the impression that we are the Stanford of the Borderlands.  The only difference is that we don't have any money, don't have the academic prestige, and can't play football.  Other than that, we are just like Stanford.  Oh, and the whole forrest and desert thing.

lol

It’s as if we are twins - kind of like that movie where Schwarzenegger and DeVito played twins!

lieb

[kyyote]

Exactly!

[MinerMaestro]

I grew up 20 minutes from Stanford and my first big football game was Stanford versus Cal when I was about 10 years old.  I know Stanford.  Evidently, Natalicio is under the impression that we are the Stanford of the Borderlands.  The only difference is that we don't have any money, don't have the academic prestige, and can't play football.  Other than that, we are just like Stanford.  Oh, and the whole forrest and desert thing.

Lol!  You win the internet today, Ky!  Hilarious!