The Iowa folks told you that he isn’t as good as advertised. It will all be down hill from here. He is a jerk. An egomaniac. And not that great of a coach. All he has is a legacy to Bobby Knight.

We can be proud of our players, coach and coaching staff…they are doing it the right way. I’m excited about the teams future….sidenote to dailylobo staff: great reporting this year…Time and time again, I seem to get a different perspective from you that I don’t get in the other media

You forgot to include this absurd comment recorded by ESPN:

“They played the best game of their life tonight,” Hobson said. “They’re not even that good. They just played a good game tonight. We weren’t ready, and they beat us.”

Since Coach King, the Lobos employed a slow down mentality. Now, with bigger players possessing endurance, an adjustment may be required to accommodate the run and shoot offense.For home games, the altitude is a friend, but at lower elevations, a good shooting, fast offense can cause difficulties.

I’m confident Coach Alford can condition his guys to adjust to this.Next year should be gangbusters, and he, and the team won’t disappoint us.

Regarding the comments by Hobson, “They played the best game of their life tonight,” Hobson said. “They’re not even that good. They just played a good game tonight. We weren’t ready, and they beat us.”

What does that say about the Lobos? If Washington is not that good, the Lobos are not nearly as good as they were advertised. Barely beating a number 14 seed, and getting destroyed by a number 11 seed. Nice job Hobson! Next time you get embarrassed like that, keep your mouth shut, your head down, and head for the showers.

The Lobos had a great season and they should be very proud of themselves. They got beat by a better team. Washington was faster, more physical, more aggressive and downed shots that the Lobos could not.

I like Hobson but his comments are absurd. The Lobos, as good as their season was, were over rated both in the polls and in the seedings. The expectations from the fans for such a young team were too high. This team will get better and the lesson they learned yesterday will help them in the long run. I say be proud of them for giving us such an entertaining season. Next year should be interesting.

Haha the lobos suck! another waste of money team who can’t perform when it matters. how about putting funding into departments that really matter, like physics and engineering?

PS lobos got destroyed!

Hey Hobson. “I hope you traveled home safely.”
“How sweet it is” Seattle Times Sports writer
Percy Allen

What a shame to have a player make a fool out of himself after a bad loss. Be a man, except the defeat by the BETTER team! You would never hear a comment like that from a player for Romar. Don’t let the #11 seed fool you. The Dawgs are that low only because they had a slow start in league this year and the committee like most of the country didnt think the Pac-10 was very good this year.

GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chadwick Johnstone… get a life. How much free marketing did the Lobos provide for UNM over the last couple of months? How much money has the Lobos generated for UNM? How much money has the Lobo’s generated for ABQ businesses? Get a life. I hate how you ignorant people always try to make a big deal about college athletics… Let me guess… “We are an academic institution…” blah blah blah. So why don’t we get rid of the food court on campus, or the dorms on campus, or let’s take out the pond, the grass, the trees, and everything else that is not for education. Let’s just have students show up to class, sit in a box, and go home. Yeah right. Let’s see how many students UNM would have. Why do you think college’s offer such things? It is to give college students an experience, a place to grow, and at the same time get their education. If not, UNM would be nothing more than The Phoenix University. So why don’t you and the leaders of the GPSA go jump in the UNM Duck Pond.

Ric

Hobson is such a sorry POS. Seriously, if he is claiming that UW is “Not that good”… right after you get COMPLETELY MOPPED UP…. what does that say about you and your team!? That you are terrible? …. Jesus, I am so glad New Mexico and that D-Bag Hobson are out of the tourney!

Such ignorance – comment’s about Hobson and Alford should be positive – they won 30 games and beat tough opponents all year. Anyone can have a bad game just ask Kansas. We went to the second round – this year was just the beginning. I hope Alford doed not get hired by a bigger university then we will really be sorry! Hobson – you were great all year one bad game does not make a player – good luck next year wherever you may be – you will always be a great Lobo – THANKS to you and the team for a great year – you were all great!

Lobo bball is respectable. Scrappy and hustling. But relying on 3s and a weak inside game will not get you to the top. When the 3s don’t fall, you gotta have plan B.

The PAC-10 is a tough league period(.) The Analysts got it wrong. And, my opinion is that the so called “bad” games were when the other teams came to the Pit(at a higher altitude, of course) not the other way around. UW isn’t ranked, why? Because of the politics of the rankings. The Lobos weren’t #8/10 period. And the MWC is completely out of the tournament. What else do you think would have happened when you can barely beat a Montana(unranked). It was an illusion. Hence, Hobson was disillusioned.

This game was hard to watch. I think the coaching was good all season but seemed non-existent at this game. We never changed up or adapted to what wasn’t working. Apart from Gary, everyone seemed lost on zone Defense. They should have stirred it up, played some press and man to man. Keep changing it on them so they can never get comfortable. Same thing on offense, we kept settling for a 3 or long 2. Wish we would have penetrated more and kicked out for good looks. This game would have never been easy but I think we could have won. Nonetheless, great season. Now lets do it again and make it further in the tournament next season.

Fan: “How much money has the Lobos generated for UNM?”

Not enough to pay off its debts. Haven’t you heard? The UNM Athletics has been $ millions in the red for years now. But to be fair, most college sports do NOT pay for themselves.

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P.S. Fan,

Don;t get me wrong. I enjoy watching sports too (I’m more of an NBA fan than NCAA though).

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Lawrence, feel free to tell that to the UNM marketing team who pitch all the great joys of attending UNM. I’m sure you will get a quick answer of, “ARE YOU CRAZY?!”. Of course UNM is a place for academics, nobody is arguing that, not even the students who are playing on the basketball team, oh yeah, you forgot they weren’t just athletes. You have a dynamic atmosphere on any University campus: you have greek life, you have the student council, you have the band, you have the debate team, you have a laywer group…etc. So you are telling me that the University is just an academic institution? Like I said before, we aren’t the University of Phoenix. The whole point is that the athletic teams bring pride to the students, to the fans, to alumni, to the community. Did you forget the free marketing we received on CBS? ESPN, or any other televised game? How much do you think that is worth? Who do you think draws in the most alumni donor money? I’m not saying the University is centered around sports, now that is ignorant, but it is one piece of the whole puzzle. One piece that when you combine it with the rest of the pieces, you get a college life, a time that you will remember for the rest of your life. How big is that piece? I don’t know, but I would say it is somewhat large. Larger than any other organization at the University. I don’t see anyone else bringing in 30 thousand plus to one site. Like I said before, I would love to see how many students UNM would have it had four walls and chairs for “education and research” and nothing else. Best of luck there buddy.

Oh yeah, in order for UNM to be competitive next year, they need a big man. They can’t rely on threes and fast breaks, they will get hammered like they did against Washington. And yes, Dobson’s words were ignorant. But those are words from a 20/21 year old kid who is still learning how to mature. He will understand one day.

to sum it up, in the Big Dance your ranking and seed are irrelevant. the sole goal is to win it all. and to win it all means you come ready to play, you deal with adversity, and you out tough your opponent. else, you go home and watch the rest of it on TV. the Big Dance is as good as it gets in sports and I beg the NCAA to leave it alone. lobos did well, congratulations on a fine season. anyone who thought they had the horses to do better is insane. they did as well as they could have done with who they had on the court. next year they’ll have more experienced and overall more talented players. they set the bar high this year. all is good and i look forward to the fun.