An omen, perhaps?
Mike Price, entering the last year of his coaching contract at UTEP, brought in only high-school football players on Signing Day Wednesday. No "quick fix" JCs.
Usually a coach on the hot seat tries to save his job by bringing in juniors who can play "right now," not freshmen who should red-shirt for a year.
Price is on the hot seat because he hasn't had a winning team for six years in a row — and it's never a good sign when a coach's contract isn't rolled over for at least one year.
Does this mean there's already an agreement that Price will retire at the end of this season?
If so, Price did the right thing in recruiting. Building with freshmen is the way to go. That means there's always a good junior-senior class on the roster — for the next coach?
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February 03, 2012
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With Rodriguez and now Natkin on the staff, it looks like the future coach hiring process is going to include mainly guys with some ties to the team.
Stull hinted as such recently when he drew comparisons to Boise St. success in their ability to create a culture unique to them.
If CMP does retire, I would expect the staff to stay pretty much in place and a successor to be someone we are already familiar with. Utep has had alumni that have experienced quite a bit of head coaching success.
Posted by: Toasted Whitbred | February 03, 2012 at 02:55 PM
Why wait?
FIRE PRICE NOW!!!
Posted by: jUTEP | February 03, 2012 at 03:40 PM
If the successor comes from within the current coaching structure, then yeah, it will probably remain the same. If the coach comes from outside of the program, that coach will probably bring/find his own people. That's the way it works.
Posted by: Earl | February 04, 2012 at 01:11 PM
Here we go again. Another season of having to put up with JUTEP's idiotic rantings! Give it a break jUTEP, you appear out of touch!!!
Posted by: Miner Fan | February 04, 2012 at 03:37 PM
This will be Mike Price's last year at UTEP, a current Canutillo Principle is married to Mike Prices' daughter, he has already notified the Canutillo School District he will be stepping down as Principal of Canutillo to move to the state of Washington. So it is true that this is Mike Price last year at UTEP and in El Paso, Texas- Thank You Coach Price and I hope you go ou with a winning season.
Posted by: David Valadez | February 05, 2012 at 09:01 PM
Our ancestors began this superstition, because they thought the image in a mirror, contained our actual soul. Thus, a broken mirror, represented the soul being pulled from your body and being trapped in all the shattered pieces.
Posted by: monarch 1115 | July 31, 2012 at 03:57 AM