UTEP is as healthy as it has been all year as it heads into its rivalry game with New Mexico State.
The two biggest injury concerns, Brandis Dew (sprained ankle) and Anthony Morrow (head injury) practiced with the team at full speed Tuesday. Vernon Frazier was the only tailback not wearing a red no-hitjersey, but Terrell Jackson, Donald Buckram and Daniel Palmer all were working out.
On the other hand, Ja'Boy Leomiti, who started at defensive end against Texas, was in a green scout team jersey and coach Mike Price didn't elaborate other than to say he wouldn't start. Leomiti did rotate in with the first-team defense at the end of practice.
# Closing down: Price said he might close a practice either today or Thursday, a rare occurance that usually only happens when UTEP is playing the school 40 miles away.
"I might put in the Wishbone if we close practice," Price said.
# Debut: NMSU transfer receiver Marcus Anderson made his Division 1 debut, catching two passes for 32 yards against Nebraska.
"It wasn't too much different," he said of his experience at Pasadena (Calif.) City College. "Football is football. I'm usually faster than everyone, but everybody has caught up to me a little bit."
He does think his team will improve from its 38-7 loss.
"We had first-game jitters, we should be better in the second game," Anderson said. "That was our first contact, our first live action."
# Messy travel: NMSU is glad to be taking a 40-minute bus ride
to its game this week after some misadventures on last week's trip to Lincoln, Neb.
In part because of Hurricane Ike, the three charter planes the Aggies were supposed to take from Las Cruces to Lincoln were hours late. NMSU arrived at 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
What coach Hal Mumme termed as a poor offensive performance in the game "had more to do with all the events leading up to the game," he said, referring to the late arrival. "There were a lot of ways to lose focus and we weren't that far off."
# Third quarter: When No. 10 Texas failed to score in the third quarter against UTEP, it marked the first time the Miners shut out an Associated Press top-10 team in a quarter since Oct. 26, 1985, when BYU failed to score in the second and fourth periods on its way to a 23-16 upset loss.
The two biggest injury concerns, Brandis Dew (sprained ankle) and Anthony Morrow (head injury) practiced with the team at full speed Tuesday. Vernon Frazier was the only tailback not wearing a red no-hitjersey, but Terrell Jackson, Donald Buckram and Daniel Palmer all were working out.
On the other hand, Ja'Boy Leomiti, who started at defensive end against Texas, was in a green scout team jersey and coach Mike Price didn't elaborate other than to say he wouldn't start. Leomiti did rotate in with the first-team defense at the end of practice.
# Closing down: Price said he might close a practice either today or Thursday, a rare occurance that usually only happens when UTEP is playing the school 40 miles away.
"I might put in the Wishbone if we close practice," Price said.
# Debut: NMSU transfer receiver Marcus Anderson made his Division 1 debut, catching two passes for 32 yards against Nebraska.
"It wasn't too much different," he said of his experience at Pasadena (Calif.) City College. "Football is football. I'm usually faster than everyone, but everybody has caught up to me a little bit."
He does think his team will improve from its 38-7 loss.
"We had first-game jitters, we should be better in the second game," Anderson said. "That was our first contact, our first live action."
# Messy travel: NMSU is glad to be taking a 40-minute bus ride
to its game this week after some misadventures on last week's trip to Lincoln, Neb.
In part because of Hurricane Ike, the three charter planes the Aggies were supposed to take from Las Cruces to Lincoln were hours late. NMSU arrived at 1:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
What coach Hal Mumme termed as a poor offensive performance in the game "had more to do with all the events leading up to the game," he said, referring to the late arrival. "There were a lot of ways to lose focus and we weren't that far off."
# Third quarter: When No. 10 Texas failed to score in the third quarter against UTEP, it marked the first time the Miners shut out an Associated Press top-10 team in a quarter since Oct. 26, 1985, when BYU failed to score in the second and fourth periods on its way to a 23-16 upset loss.
