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Building a football team from scratch is going to be a long and arduous journey for UTPB. In a little more than a year, the Falcons will kick off their inaugural season, and the squad took another step in its preparation for that day. UTPB hit the field officially for the first time before the crack of dawn Monday morning as the 76 players that make up the team donned helmets and practice jerseys. With no game scheduled for 375 days, working on the players’ conditioning and building team chemistry will be the early tasks for the Falcons. “I think the most important thing is getting them to focus on bettering themselves every day,” UTPB head coach Justin Carrigan said on Sunday before the practice. “For this year, we’re our own opponent. We’ve got to figure out every day how to get better than yesterday.” During the two-hour practice, the Falcons worked on the same things any football team would during its opening session — tackling form for the defense, foot work for the linemen, ball ...

The journey is set to begin for the UTPB football team. The Falcons will hold their first official practice Monday at 6 a.m. The team takes the field Sunday evening for conditioning test after it goes through team and positional training meetings Friday and today. The plan for the Falcons is to practice Monday through Friday morning with optional off days every Wednesday. The team doesn’t plan on getting into pads until September. Contact the Odessa American sports department by phone 432-333-7791, email oasports@oaoa.com or on Twitter @oa_sports.

FROM THE MIDLAND REPORTER TELEGRAM The University of Texas-Permian Basin football team filled the final two spots of its coaching staff on Friday. UTPB head coach Justin Carrigan announced the hiring of Robert Conley as offensive line coach and Carlos Barocio-Leon to coach special teams and running backs. Prior to joining UTPB, Conley served as a graduate assistant on both the offensive and defensive sides of the football at the University of Utah for three years. In 2011, Conley was the graduate assistant offensive line coach at Utah State. During his playing days, Conley was a four-year starting guard at Utah. Barocio-Leon was an assistant coach at SMU from 2008-14 and served as the Mustangs’ special teams coordinator the previous two years. He has also coached in Mexico and Austria. Barocio-Leon played collegiately at New Mexico State and on a professional level in Italy.

Posted: Monday, June 1, 2015 4:29 pm oanews@oaoa.com The 2015 UTPB Falcon football camps are coming up this month. The youth camp is set for June 22-24 for ages 7-12. It goes from 8 to 11:30 a.m. with check-in at 8 a.m. on June 22. Cost is $100. The skills camps for ages 13-16 also is June 22-24 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. with check-in at 12:30 p.m. June 22. Cost is $100. A one-day camp is scheduled for July 18 for incoming sophomores, junior and seniors for fall 2015. It goes from 1 to 4:30 p.m. with check-in at 12:30 p.m. Cost is $40. All check-ins will be at the UTPB Gym and camps are outside at the UTPB practice field. To register go to the link below or call 432-552-2681. ON THE NET: www.utpbfalcons.com

FOOTBALL: UTPB a step closer to kickoff after holding open tryouts - Odessa American: Utpb : "Justin Carrigan isn’t looking for talent that can help him win games this fall. UTPB’s new head football coach and the fledgling Falcons program won’t play a down until 2016. Instead, Carrigan is looking for players that can help build an upstart program from the ground up. Carrigan said that much Saturday afternoon, looking over the group of more than 70 potential players that took part in the Falcons’ open tryouts at Permian High’s John Wilkins Field. In that group, Carrigan hopes, were a few of those men who are going to help lay bricks and build a foundation as part of UTPB’s first football team. “We’re looking for character,” Carrigan said after those Falcon hopefuls were dismissed. “We’re looking for guys that have the hard work, the blue-collar mindset, that aren’t looking for the glitz and the glamour of a great locker room or a super-nice uniform or anything like that. “We ...

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: UTPB to hold open tryout - Odessa American: Local : "The UTPB football team will be holding a tryout at 1 p.m. today. Check in will take place at the UTPB gym with the tryout to follow at Permian High School. Anyone wishing to participate must be registered with the NCAA eligibility center. Participants also need a copy of a physical from within the last six months, a registrations form, a copy of a sickle cell test, liability waiver form, a copy of their unofficial transcript, cleats and athletic clothing. If a player has attended another four-year university, they will need to provide a copy of their release from that school." 'via Blog this'

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The Falcons football team now has coordinators in place below head coach Justin Carrigan. They have recruited well and continue building a roster. That now includes four players from the Permian Basin. Former Lee quarterback Caden Coots and former Andrews quarterback Shane Dolgener have jumped aboard. Odessa High wide receiver Dwayne Amoyaw recently signed with UTPB and linebacker Edgar Contreras switched from Hardin Simmons to UTPB. More can be found here + VIDEO

University of Texas of the Permian Basin may not be one of the big boys when it comes to endowments and fundraising, but it’s working its way up. In the past couple of years, the university has received support for its engineering and nursing programs, and the pending start of Falcons football in 2016. Executive Director of Development Lee Anna Good said the total raised for fiscal year 2014 was $14.34 million, including funds raised for football. Getting contributions involves a lot of networking, listening and finding out what people think the needs are in West Texas, Good said. “Relationship building is really everything, and hopefully we do a pretty good job of listening, so we’re not just trying to sell them on everything but we’re really hearing what they want to happen at UTPB,” Good said. “I feel pretty good about the feedback I get. … Enrollment is growing. We wouldn’t be getting more students if they weren’t hearing that UTPB is a good place to be.” The school has about 5...

UTPB announced Tuesday that coaching veteran Scott Preston has been hired as offensive coordinator for the school’s upstart football team. Preston began his college coaching career in 1991 at San Francisco State University and has made subsequent stops at Valdosta State, Georgia Military College, Ventura College, Murray State, Illinois State, Arkansas Tech, Tiffin and Belhaven. He served as offensive coordinator at Murray State, Illinois and Arkansas Tech and spent last season as a Belhaven assistant to Hal Mumme, one of the orchestrators of the Air Raid offense. In 1995 and again in 2011, Preston coached professional football teams in Finland. Posted by The Odessa American -  www.oaoa.com

RICHARDSON, Texas – The Lone Star Conference will grow to 10 member institutions as league officials announced Friday the University of Texas of the Permian Basin has accepted an invitation to join the conference in the fall of 2016. The UT System Board of Regents approved the move Thursday morning. The LSC Council of Presidents gathered at the NCAA Convention in Washington D.C. in January for their annual winter meeting, where they unanimously voted to extend an invitation to Texas-Permian Basin. "We are extremely pleased to have a program with great athletic and academic traditions in UTPB joining the Lone Star Conference," said Angelo State President Dr. Brian May, chair of the LSC President's Council. Located in Odessa, Texas, UTPB is a dynamic, growing campus with over 5,000 students. The Falcons sponsor 11 NCAA Division II sports (volleyball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's basketball, softball, ba...

By Felix Chávez / El Paso Times Several area high school athletes will continue their athletic careers at the collegiate level at non-Division I schools. Five Canutillo students are among the 14 — four football players and a girls basketball player. Eastlake, Franklin, Andress and Americas had two players each signed. • Americas football player Nikales Sanchez will compete for Doane College in Nebraska. • Eastlake defensive back Nick Hamilton will continue his football career at Western New Mexico in Silver City. • Eastlake offensive lineman Charlie Holguin signed to play for Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan. • El Dorado wide receiver Alex Powell will continue his career at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, Colo. • Franklin wide receiver Braxton Hatch will continue his career at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah. • Franklin place-kicker Andrew Zubia will continue his career at Benedictine College. • Andress running back Johnny Smith will play ...

UTPB football head coach Justin Carrigan announced Friday the addition of two defensive coaches to his inaugural staff. Chris Mineo, a 2001 Permian graduate, has been brought aboard as co-defensive coordinator/defensive line coach and Jacob Martin, a two-time state championship player at Celina High School, will be co-defensive coordinator/linebackers coach. “I’m beyond excited to have these coaches join me in building this program,” Carrigan said. “I have never been around two guys more loyal and hardworking than Chris and Jacob. They are tireless recruiters and coaches who have an unbelievable amount passion for this game.” Mineo and Martin both were previously with Tarleton State as defensive assistants — Mineo for the past seven seasons and Martin for the past five. UTPB, which will play its first game in fall 2016, received its first batch of player commitments Wednesday, inking six on National Signing Day. Carrigan, also a former assistant with Tarleton State, was introduced a...

By Joshua Weaver jweaver@oaoa.com Two weeks after being hired to lead the from-the-ground-up NCAA Division II UTPB football program, head coach Justin Carrigan welcomed his first batch of prep visitors. The recruiting tools are at a minimum right now. “Not one thing is in place, other than myself, that says football,” he said. But an edited video that had been taken by a drone showing a bird’s-eye view of the UTPB campus allowed Carrigan to point out where certain amenities, such as a practice field, will eventually be. A vision of the future. His main selling point. On Wednesday, the Falcons, who are scheduled to play their inaugural game in the fall of 2016, received their first six commitments during National Signing Day. “It’s unbelievable. To be able to sell them on the idea of redshirting for a year and seeing the big picture,” Carrigan said. “I don’t think it’s difficult to sell, but difficult for a 17- or 18-year-old kid to understand. We are in the now generation ...

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BY ADAM ZUVANICH azuvanich@oaoa. com Justin Carrigan arrived in the Permian Basin a day early, before his Wednesday job interview on the UTPB campus in Odessa, and reached out to the area’s most prominent high school football coaches. On Tuesday he introduced himself to Permian coach Blake Feldt, Odessa High coach Ron King and Midland High coach Craig Yenzer, visiting each one personally. Then, before heading back to his home in Stephenville on Thursday, Carrigan met with Midland Lee coach James Morton. He might not have realized it at the time, but that seemingly small gesture is one of the reasons Carrigan was introduced Friday as the first football coach in UTPB history. It certainly made an impression on former Permian coach John Wilkins, who UTPB sought out to be a lead member of its search committee, because Wilkins said it was “critical” for the Falcons to find a coach who knows how to recruit and build relationships with the high school coaches in the region...

Justin Carrigan By Adam Zuvanich, Odessa American The upstart football program at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin has its first leader in place. Justin Carrigan, a native Texan with longstanding ties to the Lone Star Conference, was named UTPB's first football coach at a news conference Friday morning. The 35-year-old Carrigan, a 1998 graduate of Carrollton Turner High School, was a two-time all-conference safety for Angelo State in San Angelo and has worked on the coaching staffs at fellow LSC schools Midwestern State in Wichita Falls and Tarleton State in Stephenville. UTPB president David Watts and athletics director Steve Aicinena both said Carrigan's ties to the conference, in which UTPB will compete beginning in the fall of 2016, helped set him apart from the other finalists for the job, Lindsey Wilson University head coach Chris Oliver and former Valparaiso head coach Dale Carlson. Watts and Aicinena also cited Carrigan's recruiting connections in th...

Chris Oliver, Dale Carson, Justin Carrigan BY ADAM ZUVANICH azuvanich@oaoa.com  - Odessa American UTPB is close to hiring its first football coach. Athletics director Steve Aicinena confirmed Monday that the school has narrowed its inaugural coaching search to three finalists — Lindsey Wilson University head coach Chris Oliver, former Valparaiso head coach Dale Carlson and Tarleton State offensive coordinator Justin Carrigan. Oliver interviewed in Odessa on Monday, Carlson is scheduled to interview on campus Tuesday, and Carrigan’s interview is scheduled for Wednesday. Aicinena said one of them could be offered the UTPB job as early as Thursday. “We’re hoping to come to closure by the end of the week,” Aicinena said. “I don’t know if we’re going to know by Friday, but that’s our intent. We’ll get all three people in by Wednesday, meet with the (search) committee on Thursday and make an offer either Thursday night or Friday. “We are really excited to be at this stage and hav...

Supporters have donated more than $9.5 million, so UTPB can start football in fall 2016. “We’re in the process of hiring a football coach. We should have someone in January or February.” The university also is in need of more academic space, which officials hope to get tuition revenue bonds for. More ...