(07-21-2018 01:35 PM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  

(07-21-2018 01:17 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(07-21-2018 11:47 AM)UTEPDallas Wrote:  

(07-20-2018 05:41 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(07-19-2018 09:26 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  https://www.abqjournal.com/1198235/unm-l...ports.html

President and AD are recommending to cut men's soccer, men's and women's skiiing and women's beach volleyball. Additionally, rosters will be trimmed for men’s cross country and track and women’s swimming and diving.

"And those measures will not entirely cure the athletic department’s budget challenges; filling the shortfall could still require more support from main campus, students and/or the state."

None of the recommended cut sports are members of the Mountain West Conference. New Mexico skiiing won the National Championship in 2004. Men's Soccer is part of Conference USA (along with Kentucky and South Carolina), which would now have eight members.

As mentioned before, New Mexico sponsors a whopping 22 sports! Even dropping these will leave New Mexico with more than many SEC schools, which shows that UNM just has too many sports for a non p5 school. They even had wrestling into the 2000's....
Maybe at some point the Lobos will pump more into their big 3: basketball, baseball and football.

Didn’t Temple do the same thing recently? Like New Mexico, they ran an athletic department as if they were in the Big Ten minus the budget.

The only G5’s that might be able to afford that many sports are schools like Rice, Tulane, SMU and the academies. Liberty might be able as well.

I agree with you except with SMU. Maybe they could, but they won’t. They don’t even have a baseball team. Neither does Tulsa and Temple now.

SMU has the money. They just lack the fanbase. The June Jones and Larry Brown hires proved that they can pay big money if they want to but as a Dallasite, I see the disconnect between the school and the community. TCU does an excellent job in Fort Worth, the entire town (which is mostly blue collar) embraced the Horned Frogs while most folks here in Dallas and surrounding communities see SMU as an out of touch, spoiled brat, daddy will buy me a Mercedes and get me a credit card type of institution which you can say the same thing about any private school but I don’t see Rice dealing with the same issue in Houston. Twenty years ago, SMU and TCU were seen as equals in athletics. The gap is so wide now, I don’t think SMU will ever be able to catch up to TCU.

As for New Mexico, I should be happy as a UTEP fan to see our rivals suffer. But in reality, I wish the Lobos well. I don’t think they know their full potential being the flagship school in a mid size metro area and their decent academics which could be attractive for a P5 opening in the long term. Same for Colorado State. They can learn a thing or two from Utah which was behind both in the 80’s and early 90’s.

I’ve said the exact same thing about New Mexico and Colorado St on here for years: they simply don’t understand their potential. They both have great things going for them. It’s a mystery to me. Though I will say Colorado St is starting to figure things out and I’ve long predicted they’ll eventually end up in the Big 12.