Conference Catching On...

I love this... ESPN has been producing genious spots for years. For example, this is one of their all-time greats from back in the day. Padre's reliever Trevor Hoffman comes in for Kenny Mayne, to relieve him on the anchor desk.



Conference USA decided to jump on the sense of humor bandwagon, and make a promo of the "Student-Athletes" all living in a house together (which looks like one of the houses on SMU's fraternity row), doing chores in full game uniforms...



Good promo, and you know all of the CUSA homers are looking and counting how many times their teams were represented in the ad. For the record, UTEP= once.

This weekends lightening and rain-outs killed what should have been a good weekend of high school football. Mother Nature killed me and Friday Night's Xtra Point. Typical woman... (just kidding). We asked the senior member of the El Paso coaching fraternity, Alan Sepkowitz of Andress, if he could ever remember games having to be made up the next morning because of lightening. He said that he couldn't in his 31 years... By the way, Saturday night's makeup game highlights= here.

For such a young team, UTEP showed what kind of team that they are by coming back twice to beat SMU in overtime, 48-45. Marcus Thomas ran for 207 yards, and was named Conference USA's Offensive Player of the Week.



Can it be true? Can Mike Price actually be the Head Football Coach of a running team??? If he wants to win, he is, and proved it over the weekend. With Thomas, and Lorne Sam coming in as a running quarterback, this team will for the 1st time in a long time be one that opens up the pass with the run. Who'd-a-thunk-it?

The Miners believe that they can beat Tulsa this weekend. Tulsa is 1 of 2 teams that were picked in the pre-season to win the CUSA West. If the Miners win this weekend, and go 1 and 1 in the following 2 games, they will be a bowl team, period.

The NMSU Aggies should get about 4 starters back for their game against Boise St. (Sunday, 6pm mst, ESPN) which is great for them. It won't matter though if Chase Holbrook can't play. He took several bonecrushing hits from blitzing defenders from Arkansas- Pine Bluff who lost to NMSU by a field goal, 20-17. His injury isn't disclosed, but according to Las Cruces Sun News sportswriter Teddy "Ballgame" Feinberg's article today, he might have bruised ribs. Stay tuned.

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