Unfortunately, Coach Locksley is a symptom and not the cause. Maintaining this plethora( Three, anyhow) of mediocre administrators is dragging down UNM, the alums, fans and most notably, the taxpayers.

It’s time for Governor Richardson to initiate a full scale investigation to uncover how such poor performers such as President Schmidly,Mr. Krebs and unfortunately, Coach Locksley ever got involved with UNM.

As for Coach Locksley, I think,although I’m not certain, he can be dismissed for cause and thus nullify the details of his contract.

It might be wise to inform the guy who looks like a deer in the headlights( That’s Mr. Krebs) that UNM is not the Oakland Raiders and Joe Cable is not Coach Locksley, a a slap on the wrist not only demeans UNM, but himself-due to his obvious inability to think beyond a $ 5.00 parking fee to attend losing football games.

I must agree that the head coach has not done a good job since getting here, but it would be expensive to terminate his contract with or with out cause, and there is no one in the wings to come in at this time. I would hope he would be allowed to finish out the season and quietly resign, take a settlement and both parties move on with their collective lives
I just don’t see how this can get any better.

I don’t understand how people want him to be fired after 4 games (I promise it will be at least 5 in a row because we’re not beating Texas Tech). There is no coach on the planet who could take a team with a bad record like we did last year and expect to turn it around in one off-season. It takes 2-3 seasons for anything to change and that’s what we have to expect here at UNM. There has been vast improvement on the defensive side of the ball since last year and the offense started to come around last game. Be patient and don’t expect a miracle to happen.

Wow!

@hahahaha – Speaking strictly for myself, I don’t want him fired because he loses, I want him fired because he hit a co-worker. If that’s not “cause,” I’m not sure what is. Losing seasons are a heckuva lot easier to take when the program approaches the rebuilding process with some shred of integrity, something sorely lacking with this program. These are kids who deserve a lot better than examples like this of organizations are run.

And this is what a million dollar contract buys us? A coach who is accused of sexual harrassment (which I believe to be a valid claim) and physically abuses a colleague????? I don’t care about winning football games. I care about hiring a coach who teaches young men the values of hard work, INTEGRITY, and RESPECT, and positively represents the citizens of the State of New Mexico.

UNM= university of nothing much or university near mom. Until we can recruit some athletes with a decent GPA and a desire to be a student first and an athlete second, UNM is doomed to have losing teams. I feel sorry for the players. Having to put up with coaches that are acting like juvenilles must be discouraging. Locksley should be made to do community service or some sort of penance. Maybe he could clean up after the cigarette smokers or the ducks.

Well finally somebody on our Lobo team hit somebody! I have never heard of a football team in the locker room not to lose tempers and take some swings at eachother.For a coach to call the police on an internal matter like this is treason for the entire team and coaching staff. I come from Clemson where we take our football seriously! For my fellow Lobo nation to equate college football with what is expected with Professors…oh give me a break. we will never have quality football in ABQ until we take pride with our football players and coaches going a little nuts every once in awhile.

Ah, yes, locker room emotion. Texas Tech’s standout linebacker Carter is suspended indefinitely after trashing the Houston locker room after a loss. Oregon suspended a running back for the season when he punched an opponent in the face after a loss. Coach Gerald got punched by a boss who, at the time, was not practicing respect or professionalism. The event caught the interest of the national media, so its importance can’t be minimized just because we expect only the most boorish behavior of coaches in a football program. After all, ESPN didn’t think the event was trivial.

Hey, this isn’t an ACC or Big 12 or Pac 10 or Big 10 program. It was a bit easier for Coach Locksley to distinguish himself as a recruiter for a large school (not necessarily a winning football program) in an elite conference. UNM has to sell ambience and southwestern weather because we cannot sell a long list of NFL draftees from a winning football program. But in Albuquerque we can still enjoy our sports because we can love our athletes for the young people they are, men and women with character who win sometimes, lose sometimes. All the fans can expect is that program participants, win or lose, carry themselves with class. Coach Locksley, please run that kind of program!

A response about a report getting filed: Receivers’ Coach Gerald had no choice but to file a police report because if he had not gone on record, the event would have been twisted against him, just as his week-long absence before the famous “acknowledgment” got twisted. Coach Locksley said he would welcome J.D. back when he had worked out “his personal problems!” Sick! Coach Gerald knows what the man is capable of, wouldn’t you say? The powerful man is a bully to female employees, to assistant coaches, to anybody who has to defend his or her word against that of the head coach.

Bottom line…now that HR at the University is “investigating” the incident already acknowledged as true by “Locksley” in that he physically struck another UNM employee that as a supervisor was his subordinate . . .he is “out”, because if UNM allows the very minimal disciplinary action he received to stand , the University will undoubtedly be hit by a slew of discrimination lawsuits from former UNM employees who were and have been previously terminated due to engaging in physical violence at work or striking another UNM employee themselves. Look for a “buyout resignation” from Locksley here shortly!!!

I want him gone for multiple reasons and this just adds to it. I dont think UNM should have hired him in the first place. $1million contract? What are they thinking! How about you cut him lose and put that back into our tuition.

I am not big on spirit or our teams and I am not alone in this. As near as I can tell we are more for being scouted off of than for winning. I feel that is a sport, its football, who cares. As the only news I tend hear about our teams is we lost, drunk, fight and sometime questions of rape, and poor performance on the field and in the classroom. So why did we need to give him so much money again? Or that maybe there is a serious image problem that seems to only be getting worse. Or even worse that image problem might be closer to the truth than we thought.

But I understand that sports are important for many reason, so I have this to say… Focus on the players not on some new Coach who demands an insane salary. I think a true coach that cares about their team like they should not need a 6 figure salary to do their job. (Think about how little our Professors make.) Their pay off should be the improvement of their team and its players. Coach Locksley is no such man. He appears to be only capable of dragging UNM down. Had we had a coach that had a true passion for coaching and the sport I am sure things would be different right now

Some how UNM needs to make some serious changes with its Coaches, players, students and image. No more drinking, fighting or worse. Serious improvement on and off the field. Including GPA for all students by truly helping their students succeed. Finally, everyone needs to find a reason to have a passion for UNM, their studies and everything else UNM related they are involved in. Right now that passion is so lacking, myself included, that it shows. What is seen makes me ashamed

“Krebs” and “Schmidley” want to “save face” for hiring Locksley in the first place . . .and they will!! “Helen Gonzalez” (HR VP) &
“Lee Pheifer” (UNM Counsel) will give advice to “Krebs” ,“Schmidley”, and the “ UNM Board of Regents” to terminate Locksley’s employment and football coaching contract… all the while working with Locksley and his lawyer (he should have one by now!) on a “buy out” in exchange for his Resignation! Too much negative national media coverage, a pathetic football team, worse than the football team is the UNM Administration and the recent arrest of former UNM Linebacker Daniel Gawronski’s recent $500,000.00 bail for felony domestic violence charges involving a gun. . .“all in all“a current national publicity crisis for UNM! Not to mention all the other “garbage” this University produces like the “mexican flag tearing incident” (what a joke!) , a former President of UNM’s (Caldera)embarrassing decision to fly a Presidential Air Force-1 747 “slow and low” over Manhattan only to be fired by the President of the U.S. and return to UNM as a tenored law professor
After this current “circus show” with Locksley does anyone really believe that UNM will be able to recruit any quality football players to ABQ for at least the next 5 years or so ?? Not to mention this year’s LOBO football team has a REALLY GOOD chance of going winless for the year!
UNM is one of the biggest employers in the state of NM and as such . . .that is it’s purpose to employ people, spend tax dollars, and as a substitute for the perception of higher learning for an institution that hasn’t consistently produced “much if anything” since it’s inception. . . not academically! certainly not athletically! and as for it’s self acclaimed cultural uniqueness and diversity …well that gets you a very expensive commissioned piece of art work “front and center” with misspelled words to welcome naive incoming freshman as to the quality and type of education they will receive at UNM.
UNM is a “wasteland” of excuses , shameless and pitiful administration,NO LEADERSHIP! or accountability!and as such NO PRESTIGE! or REAL LEGACY! and it is really nothing more than a gateway to the epidemic alcoholism that controls and runs this state!
Seriously, No one really cares about whether UNM is a good academic institution in this state! It’s function is to spend state tax dollars for whatever reason and to allow it’s students an opportunity to get drunk before, during, and after it’s athletic competitions …and especially the sorry and pathetic LOBO Football program!!

I recently won an online auction for a football helmet signed by Coach Locksley. $180 worth. Fortunately for me, it should be a collectors item. After all, who can name a head coach fired after 5 games. Hmm. After 43 years following my graduation this is what I get.

If Ryan Brightbill recommends ANYTHING do the opposite… although it’s in his name, he’s really not that bright! Beware.

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MIKE LOCKSLEY IS IN OVER HIS HEAD

• New Mexico finished the season 1-11, its worst record since the 1980’s. Many of those losses were blowouts.
• Coach Locksley admitted striking an assistant coach during a “physical altercation”.
• As of 10-10-09, Locksley had been blown out in 5 out of 6 games.
• Loss at home to undermanned and less talented NMSU squad.
• Poor leadership and example for student athletes — physical violence in the workplace.
• Talented recruiting class not yet in the works, despite Locksley’s supposed expertise as recruiter.
• Rapid decline in football game attendance, and general apathy toward program under Locksley.
• Segment by ESPN Outside the Lines alleges cover up and previous anger management issues.
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Despite big promises and big words, University of New Mexico Lobo head football coach Mike Locksley delivered only a single victory in 2009, at a cost of $750,000 to the taxpayers of New Mexico. That’s right, $750,000 per victory — what a bargain. The Lobos finished near the bottom of the NCAA in most important offensive and defensive statistical categories — so much for Locksley’s bragging assertion that another number would need to be added to the scoreboard — if it was needed, it was needed on the opposing team’s side this year. Coach Locksley was hit with an EEOC complaint earlier in 2009 that has now been settled, with his former employee being given a newly created, higher-paying position, back pay, lifetime season tickets to UNM sporting events, and an undisclosed, behind the scenes settlement. Coach Mike Locksley has admitted to striking assistant coach J.B. Gerald in a “physical altercation”, and it appears possible that this incident may result in a lawsuit against UNM, as Coach Gerald has opted to leave the team, and retain an attorney. Locksley has also failed to land the recruits he could supposedly deliver, losing two of his top three recruits in 2009 to their failure to qualify. Another one of Locksley’s highly touted recruits briefly left the program and returned because of the controversy surrounding the gerald situation.

The University of New Mexico pays Coach Mike Locksley $750,000 annually, or approximately $14,423.08 per week. Has Coach Mike Locksley done anything to demonstrate that he is qualified to be a head football coach at this level? Is Mike Locksley representative of the values of the University of New Mexico Lobos, or the state of New Mexico? Does he really deserve this kind of money, based on performance, or should the University of New Mexico have terminated him for cause when they had the opportunity to do so? We feel the answer is a resounding “yes”, based on his record, performance, and behavior. Mike Locksley was a very bad hire.

The taxpayers of New Mexico and fans of University of New Mexico Lobo football deserve more coaching and more integrity for their money. It is time to recognize the mistake made by Paul Krebs in hiring Coach Locksley, and sever ties with Coach Locksley, before the program suffers irreparable damage. New Mexico Lobo football cannot survive 5 more years of Mike Locksley, and this style of management, or lack of coaching ability. Our student athletes deserve better leadership.