Locksley's recipe for football success
Expecting top-six results from a bottom 10 football program is blissfully ignorant. Fair or not, given his recruiting acumen, that’s exactly what some fans expect from Lobo football head coach Mike Locksley.
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Expecting top-six results from a bottom 10 football program is blissfully ignorant. Fair or not, given his recruiting acumen, that’s exactly what some fans expect from Lobo football head coach Mike Locksley.
TCU couldn’t — and didn’t — invoke whistle-blower status at The Pit on Saturday. It would be easy — and dull-witted — to attribute the UNM women’s basketball team’s 60-53 marquee victory over No. 20 TCU to favorable officiating. It wouldn’t even be a point of contention had referee Connie Pardue not allowed the crowd to influence her whistle.
Few players — with the exception of the Jordans and Bryants — have the resolve to will their teams to victory.
With the exception of your Luke Longleys, New Mexico has never been like New York — a skyline of imposing towers, unobstructed, panoramic viewpoints and heightened awareness.
This is about as close as it comes to track and field utopia.
Chris Rock once observed the agonizing drudgery of attending dinner as a single man with a married couple.
Not that The Pit isn’t toasty enough, but Lobo fans might have considered wearing insulated, extreme arctic jackets to the UNM women’s basketball game against Wyoming on Saturday.
In a sense, what Kendall Wallace did to Steve Alford’s Lobos was poetic justice. Alford, renowned in his heyday for his artistic 3-point stroke, forced teams to extend their man-to-man defenses and do away with zones.
#19 New Mexico 68—Dayton 66
#19 New Mexico 90-#20 Texas Tech 75
Nope, these Pokes don’t fear December —mainly because they’re rarely playing come this time of year. This time, Wyoming was here for the New Mexico Bowl, but the team straglled 11 points behind favored Fresno State (8-4 overall) in the fourth quarter.
Second-year apathy doesn’t exist as far as Lauren Taylor is concerned.
Disclaimer: This column is satire.
Is the UNM women’s basketball team in the midst of an identity crisis? Truthfully, the Lobos’ play is, at this point, utterly amorphous, and UNM has yet to form a composite personality this season.
All Adam Watson wanted for Christmas was his transfer release from the Lobo football team.
Let it ride!
Mute for nearly three months, Shannon Garbiso is no longer tongue-tied about her role in investigating a Sept. 20 altercation involving first-year head coach Mike Locksley and former wide receivers coach J.B. Gerald.
A former colleague of Shannon Garbiso is speaking out about what she says her friend feels she cannot.
Unfortunately, at the conclusion of Saturday’s Thanksgiving Midtown Tournament, the UNM women’s basketball team (4-2) wasn’t able to say “Winner, winner — turkey dinner!” University of Toledo’s (5-2) menacing zone was the brainteaser the Lobos could never decipher, especially at the tail end of the game, resulting in a 62-56 loss for UNM.
Essentially, it was the run that never ended.