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KTSM: Going in for the Kill: newest New Mexico State football coach Jerry Kill arrives in Las Cruces
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<blockquote data-quote="JogginFrog" data-source="post: 3105210" data-attributes="member: 4994"><p>I know this is historically true (I grew up watching the best El Paso teams get thumped in the playoffs by Permian and Lee), but I'm not sure why it has to continue to be. It's a long way from everywhere, but the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso%E2%80%93Las_Cruces,_Texas%E2%80%93New_Mexico_combined_statistical_area" target="_blank">El Paso-Las Cruces CSA</a> has more than a million people, and if you consider Juárez, it's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso%E2%80%93Ju%C3%A1rez" target="_blank">2.7 million</a>, which makes it comparable to Baltimore and St. Louis. NMSU is among the few schools with a program that allows <a href="https://isss.nmsu.edu/newly-admitted-students/descubre-program.html" target="_blank">Mexican citizens to enroll at 1.5 the in-state tuition rate</a>. </p><p></p><p>There isn't the money or mindset there for families to invest in high-level skill development, but kids there <a href="https://www.espn.com/espn/news/story?id=6636521" target="_blank">love football</a> (not just fútbol) and if UTEP and NMSU could find resources to invest in developmental programs, I don't see how, over time, they couldn't regularly populate a pair of 85-player rosters with pretty good local talent, augmented by working the portal for kids from TX, AZ and CA. </p><p></p><p>I think Kill is a terrific hire for them. Low stress, supportive community, and his past performance suggests he'll field a team that doesn't beat itself, which clears the very low expectation bar of admin and boosters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JogginFrog, post: 3105210, member: 4994"] I know this is historically true (I grew up watching the best El Paso teams get thumped in the playoffs by Permian and Lee), but I'm not sure why it has to continue to be. It's a long way from everywhere, but the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso%E2%80%93Las_Cruces,_Texas%E2%80%93New_Mexico_combined_statistical_area']El Paso-Las Cruces CSA[/URL] has more than a million people, and if you consider Juárez, it's [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Paso%E2%80%93Ju%C3%A1rez']2.7 million[/URL], which makes it comparable to Baltimore and St. Louis. NMSU is among the few schools with a program that allows [URL='https://isss.nmsu.edu/newly-admitted-students/descubre-program.html']Mexican citizens to enroll at 1.5 the in-state tuition rate[/URL]. There isn't the money or mindset there for families to invest in high-level skill development, but kids there [URL='https://www.espn.com/espn/news/story?id=6636521']love football[/URL] (not just fútbol) and if UTEP and NMSU could find resources to invest in developmental programs, I don't see how, over time, they couldn't regularly populate a pair of 85-player rosters with pretty good local talent, augmented by working the portal for kids from TX, AZ and CA. I think Kill is a terrific hire for them. Low stress, supportive community, and his past performance suggests he'll field a team that doesn't beat itself, which clears the very low expectation bar of admin and boosters. [/QUOTE]
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