Victor Calzada / El Paso Times
UTEP breaks for camp on Monday as a team that, outside its own locker room, isn't very fancied.
Expectations for the Miners are as low as they have been since 2014, which by the way was the last time they had a winning season and went to a bowl game.
To a man, UTEP talks up the similarities between this team and that one. They are in the second year of their offensive and defensive systems, they are settled on a quarterback, they feel they are wildly underrated, they say they are hungry.