I don't think El Paso is much easier than Nac to recruit, so the only real advantage I see is conference prestige, which also isn't a huge improvement. Talent wise I think we beat UTEP the last couple of years. And name recognition I want to say even though UTEP has that amazing history as Texas Western, the average basketball fan today would probably give SFA more respect than UTEP.
A $300k pay raise is nice, but I think it's gonna be a P6 school that eventually makes him break our hearts, not UTEP.
Hell our football team is better than UTEP, and we should have won that game.