We can handle the reality of where we are today, and that’s the reality.” “We are proud to be in Conference USA, and our job is to get this program back to competing in Conference USA. “All we can do is be where our feet are, and right now our feet are in Conference USA,” said Golding. UTEP athletics has experienced an uprising in 2021 and a continuation of that could help the Miners through the realignment process. “Regardless of what league we’re in - right now we’re in Conference USA - regardless of what league we’re in, we need to compete for and win championships at a high level in all of our sports, but predominately in football and men’s basketball because that drives the economic engine of our athletic department.” It’s a very, very fluid situation, and we’ll see what transpires,” Senter said in an interview with KTSM on Wednesday. “We are monitoring it just like everyone else is. Says comfortable with the 12 football members.- Geoff Grammer October 20, 2021 Re: conference realignment: "We're going to stand pat." Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson says Board of Directors met last night. While UTEP has long-expressed an interest in joining the Mountain West Conference, the league has not reciprocated that interest and league officials said earlier this week that the Mountain West is happy staying put with the 12 teams it currently has. With Senter clearing up speculation regarding a possible move to becoming an FBS Independent and in the WAC for all other sports, as of now C-USA appears to be UTEP’s best option. They’re working the best angles for UTEP on this and we’re going to be fine.” They’re (UTEP AD Jim Senter and president Heather Wilson) working side by side on this and they’re ahead of the game on this. I’m not a part of that and have no control over that. “We have to try to put the best product we can out there to help UTEP’s national brand,” said UTEP head football coach Dana Dimel in an interview with KTSM on Friday. However, it would be necessary for the survival of the league. UTEP and FIU (located in Miami), playing in a league with New Mexico State, and UMass (Amherst, Mass.), as well as Louisiana Tech, Western Kentucky would no doubt be strange and difficult travel-wise. Any league that Conference USA will be able to salvage at this point would be geographically challenging.
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