The Texas Longhorns get their first state of the college football season on Saturday. Meanwhile the UTEP Miners will be playing in their second game of the season. Longhorns Wire spoke with ESPN El Paso’s Adrian Broaddus about the upcoming matchup in this week’s “Behind Enemy Lines” feature.
In their first game of the year, the Miners fell down early so what do they need to do?
“I think there is a lot of things the Miners need to clean up,” Broaddus continued “especially how slow they started off. It felt like the life got sucked out of them in the first half. Like oh it can’t be this again moment. The Miners found themselves in a 14-3 rut. They were able to dig themselves out but I would like to see them start off better. Especially against a very good Texas team this week.”
“This defense didn’t look like anything head coach Dana Dimel preached about over the offseason. They were supposed to look fresh with a bunch of new juco newcomers on this roster. So you want this group to gel a little better defensively. On offense you want to cling on to everything they did in the second half between Gavin Hardison and Deion Hankings on this team. ”
Provided the Texas Longhorns get off to a hot start, Broaddus shared the same sentiment of many around Austin. He believes that an early surge by Texas will bury UTEP. It would be a way to break the will of the UTEP team, especially when dealing with athletes the caliber of who will be wearing burnt orange on Saturday.