Barring a miracle run in the C-USA Tournament this March, is it time to wish coach Tim Floyd adieu?

Let’s start with a little recap after the promising 6-0 start:

Getting swept by NMSU … frontcourt/injury problems -- Floyd will fix it when conference play starts.

So they lost to Norfolk State … hangover from losing to the Aggies -- just a bad day at the office for yet another young Floyd squad.

Don’t jump off the bandwagon yet!

2-0 C-USA start … see, Floyd has it figured out.

Back-to-back road losses to MTSU and UAB … it’s cool, Floyd’s “young” team just struggles on the road.

Loss at UTSA … ah, I got nothing. Ultimate wakeup call?

Nice win over FAU … see, UTEP ready to go on a win streak.

Home loss to FIU … fire everybody!

Social media went nuts after the most recent loss. Even most diehard fans are wavering their support for coach Floyd. Hard to blame any UTEP fan, especially when you see what UNLV did to their coach with a similar start to the Miners.

Unfortunately, for those fans that want Floyd’s head, the only way he leaves UTEP is by his own doing unless the team completely folds down the stretch. The way this team has been playing, that seems more plausible than the Miners turning things around at this point in the season.

However, C-USA has its own share of problems with way more bad teams than good this season. The only shocker this season would be if UAB isn’t C-USA's lone representative in the NCAA Tournament.

Everyone wanted the Floyd hire to work, and granted he had some terrible luck along the way with injuries and recruiting, but maybe enough is enough. Sad to think the loss to Memphis in the 2011 C-USA Championship will be the closest Floyd will get to sniffing an NCAA Tournament berth as UTEP’s head man. The irony of that game is those weren’t even his own players.

So with 11 games to go, is there any way UTEP can get back into the C-USA race enough to make some noise in the conference tournament?

First things first, UTEP is the only C-USA team without a road win. Pretty telling when you consider how weak C-USA is this year.

If the Miners can somehow muster a win at Southern Miss tomorrow night, then just maybe UTEP can get back on track while helping Floyd’s approval rating.

He could use all the help he could get. Let’s just hope his players haven’t given up on him like most of the UTEP fans.