Burges brothers Aaron and Alvin Jones have committed to play football for UTEP. They were recruited as athletes and presumably will play either receiver, defensive back or possibly tailback.
Aaron was widely recruited but the tipping point was that UTEP also offered Alvin, as reported in Evan Mohl's blog early this week. As the only FBS to offer both, UTEP got both.
"They were recruited as athletes"
What the heck else would they be recruited for, cheer leading?
Posted by: Miner Maniac | 01/17/2013 at 01:36 PM
Wow Bret, you are the laziest reporter in the world as another site had this info up a while ago. Nice to see the reporters at the Times being as lazy a heck and now stealing info from other sites. Don't you even have a quote or are you too scared to site your source.
Posted by: Austin UTEP fan | 01/17/2013 at 02:16 PM
Shows how much these two "fans" know. They are classified as athletes becausetthey weren't recruited to play a specific position. And earlier reports were of only one of them signing with UTEP...so get your facts straight before opening your big mouth, or letting you fingers run wild!!
Posted by: eddie | 01/17/2013 at 02:42 PM
Sorry Eddie but Miner Illustrated posted the story on their twitter feed (@minermaniac) at 11:02 this morning. You should probably get your facts straight.
Posted by: Austin UTEP fan | 01/17/2013 at 02:55 PM
Great job by Coach Kugler for already keeping homegrown talent in town. These two have a lot of upside.
Posted by: JAT | 01/17/2013 at 04:21 PM
I hope UTEP kicks arse next season. I'd like this guy to do well, and this is a good start.
El Paso deserves something better than the Mike Price era. What a let down he turned out to be after he went thru Nord's players.
Go Miners!
Posted by: Pascal Fortran | 01/17/2013 at 06:22 PM
All they need now is that badass defender from Burges, Caleb riddle. Then they will have the Burges trifecta. He is currently being courted by several d1 schools.
Posted by: Chris | 01/17/2013 at 08:17 PM
Love these boys! They are wonderful people as well as amazing athletes and they will make the Miner nation proud. I am beyond happy for them as well as the entire Jones family.
Posted by: Amanda Urcelay | 01/18/2013 at 11:41 AM