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Welcome to another edition of Deep Dish Sports with the Iceman Brandon Cohn.

This week's show includes a discussion on the lack of fan support for the last home game for Coach Mike Price, and possible reasons why very few people showed up for his finale.

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His journey began 31 years ago as the head coach of Weber State, and ended on Saturday at the Sun Bowl with the UTEP Miners.  Mike Price's 9 year run as the head coach of the Miners finished with a 33-24 loss to Rice.

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And that's a wrap. Mike Price's exit from the UTEP program was much more low-key than his entrance, as the Miners dropped a 33-24 game to the Rice Owls to finish their 2012 season at 3-9. Price talked about the game, his career, and the challenges that face the next coach, mentioning that El Paso doesn't get nearly the respect it deserves. Price cracked that El Paso was a bit like Kuwait -- alone in a desert surrounded by states and regions that barely acknowledge it, but with no oil.

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Earlier today, UTEP received word that small forward Vincent Hunter signed a letter of intent to play for the Miners. The addition of Hunter capped off an unbelievable early signing class for head coach Tim Floyd.

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Welcome to a special Thanksgiving week edition of Deep Dish Sports with The Iceman Brandon Cohn.

This Week's show includes a discussion about UTEP football coach Mike Price retiring, and his legacy

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A cold wind blows across a porch in Couer d'Alene, ID. The tall pines in the snowy mountains above stand vigil in dress whites sharp enough to put a Navy man to shame. But there is no light inside the house, no fire in its hearth. It sits empty, its owner still enamored of a warm desert breeze near another international border, still friends with the man who would fire him, still positive about the best job he never thought he'd have.

A job he knew he would no longer have.

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Senior center Kristine Vitola will miss the remainder of the 2012-13 UTEP Women's Basketball season, it was announced by head coach Keitha Adams Monday afternoon.

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Overcome by emotion as he talked about his friendship with the man who likely forced him out of the job he loved, Director of Athletics Bob Stull, UTEP head coach Mike Price announced his retirement, effective as of the final whistle of the Miners' final game this Saturday against the Rice Owls.

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UTEP Director of Athletics Bob Stull called it one of the hardest things he's ever done: accepting -- if not forcing -- the resignation of his friend, Miners head coach Mike Price. Talking about what Price has to elevate the program, Stull also talked about what he'll look for in the next UTEP head coach.

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UTEP’s Mike Price, the sixth-winningest active coach in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), announced his retirement in a press conference on Monday at the Larry K. Durham Sports Center.

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