UTEP head football coach Dana Dimel and Miner players discuss goals and potential for the 2018 season. Bret Bloomquist/El Paso Times
All the excitement that comes with a coaching change and a surprisingly good recruiting class also comes with a caveat.
Coach Dana Dimel’s first UTEP football team still is playing with mostly the same skill players that comprised the worst offense in the nation last year, minus much of the offensive line that was not the team's weakness.
If the Miners are going to have success this year — and in 2018 that will have to be defined as three or four wins — they are going to have to use a much different formula than they came up with in the disastrous 0-12 of ‘17.