The FBI is choosing not to comment on a viral post on social media that ties UTEP to the cartel. The Miners released a statement to deny any such allegations.
It is very clearly not true…
For the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be asked, genuinely, by a real news outlet about a fake report from a parody account on social media is a truly ridiculous reality. The world’s most dangerous drug trafficking operation is not providing NIL money to the Miners.
Conference USA got Centel’d.
Before we go any further, we must first define the nonexistent slang word “Centel’d.” It refers to fake accounts on social media.
NBA Central is a fairly reliable account on social media that posts real reports, stats and information about the National Basketball Association. More than 2.1 million people follow the account on X, which can be considered an “aggregator” like Dov Kleiman, MLFootball, etc.— but slightly less exaggeratory.
NBA Centel is the exact opposite. The parody account of NBA Central was created to “report” fake news. People, including on-air broadcasters, pretty frequently get got by the fake account. They get Centel’d.
With the creation of NBA Centel came the creation of countless other Centel accounts. It even reached the Conference USA. @TheCUSACentel is “your (fake) news source for anything regarding the best G6 conference in the FBS.” It is a parody account.
Is UTEP working with the cartel? The FBI won’t comment.
CUSA Centel posted an EXPLOSIVE fake report about the University of Texas-El Paso at 8:04 a.m. on Nov. 19, 2025. It claimed, per @theUTEPnews, that UTEP is taking money directly from the Juárez Cartel.
The UTEP campus is located just a few miles from the United States/Mexico border.
The Juárez Cartel is one of the most dangerous organizations in the world.
For the Miners to take money from the cartel would obviously be a very horrible thing. They aren’t.
The report from CUSA Centel was completely fake. Entirely made up. Not real!
“The reports circulating on social media about UTEP under FBI investigation are completely false,” UTEP said in a statement to KFOX14. “The origin of this hoax is a parody account.”
It is objectively hilarious that the University of Texas-El Paso had to issue a real statement to deny a very clearly fake report from CUSA Centel about the use of drug money from a cartel to support athletics. People are so dumb.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation took the opposite approach from UTEP in response to KFOX14. The FBI is choosing not to even comment on the matter because it is so blatantly false.
Anyone who actually believed this “report” in the first place does not deserve to be acknowledged.