The UTEP football team’s path to improving on defense is straightforward and basic.
A year after giving up 36 points a game and ranking in the bottom five in the nation in turnovers forced and sacks, the Miners went out and recruited a new defense.
To be sure, there are returnees all over the defense, but so are there new faces everywhere, the product of a recruiting class littered with junior college defenders in every unit.
That was the first part of the equation for improving the defense. The second part is getting those players up to speed, after a shortened spring and now a compressed fall.