Camp Ruidoso is in its fourth year, and in the life of a football team, that’s a full generation.
When the sun first rose on a UTEP football team here in 2015, the Miners were in the unenviable, almost desperate position of starting two freshmen cornerbacks in Nik Needham, a redshirt in his second year with the team, and Kalon Beverly, who was just out of high school.
The biggest target in college football is worn by a freshman corner, and the Miners had two of them when they debuted in front of 68,000 people at No.