In keeping with an established trend, UNM officials continue to insist that, for now, Mike Locksley is the UNM football team’s head coach, pending a long-talked-about, end-of-the-season evaluation.
Lotus Nighclub security guard Richard Bradberry sat inside the dimly lit club late Friday with his hands in his lap, recounting the events early Thursday morning.
Will the UNM football team end its season the same way it started? Well, the Lobos will find out Saturday. Undefeated and third-ranked TCU rolls into Albuquerque, and with some help from other teams around the country, the Horned Frogs could potentially find themselves in the BCS National Championship on Jan.
The BYU Cougars said goodbye to its seniors and the Mountain West Conference on Saturday by dismantling the UNM football team 40-7. Head coach Mike Locksley said another loss hasn’t made it easier for the players or coaching staff. “You never go into a game expecting to lose,” he said.
The good news: Last year, UNM beat Colorado State 29-27 in its only win of the season. The bad news: This year, the Rams, 2-6, are improved. The Lobos, 0-7 and searching for their first win, travel to Fort Collins, Colo., on Saturday. Head coach Mike Locksley said UNM is coming off its strongest performances of the year, a 30-20 loss to San Diego State at University Stadium. “I think our guys expect to get the best from Colorado State,” Locksley said.
No more than a week after being reinstated, sophomore running back Demond Dennis was dismissed from the UNM football team. Head coach Mike Locksley said Tuesday that Dennis had recurring academic issues.
And the beat goes on. In front of an announced crowd of 22,511, UTEP (4-1) outlasted the UNM football team, 38-20, Saturday at University Stadium. “Right now, we are just not a very good football team,” head football coach Mike Locksley said.
Welcome home, Lobos. Yet the only thing hitting close to home on south campus after four losses is wondering if the UNM football team will regroup against powerful UTEP (3-1) on Saturday. The Lobos, who have been beaten by a combined average of 56.3 points, hope to round out UNM’s Homecoming week with their first win. Lobo head coach Mike Locksley said it’s another opportunity for his young team to grow. “Every week we have shown some sparks of success,” he said.
The unspoken sense surrounding UNM football is that this week’s game is a little more “winnable.” The Lobos will embark on their second road trip of the season against almost identical foe UNLV (0-3). “We are going to play a team that is very similar to ours,” head coach Mike Locksley said.
Utah Oh, and electrical problems created a lethal cocktail for the UNM football team’s third loss Saturday. Before the start of the second half, play between the UNM football team and No.
Here’s to Mountain West Conference nostalgia. Utah, the No. 14 ranked team in the country, makes its final appearance in University Stadium as MWC members. Aside from the fact that it could be years before Utah football returns to Albuquerque, UNM looks to amend its dismal play during the first two weeks of the season. Head coach Mike Locksley said the special teams unit will undergo several personnel changes. “We tried to give some young guys and guys that haven’t played a lot of opportunities to create a role for themselves on this team,” he said.
Julian Blair, a former defensive back on the UNM football team was involved in the Aug. 25 robbery of teammate Brandon Lewis, according to UNMPD officials. Detective Chris Crespin, the lead investigator in the case, confirmed that Blair is a suspect in the robbery of $1,800 worth of electronics from Lewis’ room. Blair was not named in the Aug. 25 police report, but was dismissed from the team during preseason for an unspecified violation of team rules, an Athletics spokesman confirmed Wednesday.
He is just a little bit misunderstood — that’s all. UNM head football coach Mike Locksley stressed discipline within his program, after the Lobos (0-2) fell to Texas Tech 52-17 on Saturday. At his weekly news conference Tuesday, Locksley said discipline isn’t necessarily the right word. “First of all, I think in football terms, when you talk about ‘discipline,’ sometimes that’s misconstrued,” Locksley said.
Correction: In the week leading up to the UNM football team’s home-opener against Texas Tech, it was inaccurately reported that the Lobos’ mistakes were, in head coach Mike Locksley’s words, “correctable.” Proven by Saturday’s performance, the Lobos fixed few of the errors Locksley stressed in a week’s time.
Hope quickly disappeared into the Albuquerque night at University Stadium on Saturday. The UNM football team dropped its home opener to Texas Tech, 52-17, in large part due to a plethora of turnovers, dropped passes, penalties and quick scores by the opposition. The Red Raiders opened with a 21-point assault in the first quarter — each touchdown scored under one minute of overall possession.
Over heard in the student section at University Stadium at Saturday’s Texas Tech game. “So, when does basketball season start?” “Oh my god!
Guns up! But for a moment, forget the Red Raiders. While the UNM football team hosts Texas Tech Saturday at University Stadium in its 2010 home opener, the real question lingers: How will the Lobos respond to that 72-0 pounding in Oregon, in which the Ducks racked up 720 yards? Simply put, head coach Mike Locksley said the missing an ingredient is discipline.? “For us right now, it’s playing with the discipline that we need to play with as a team,” Locksley said.
It was supposed to be different. It was a fresh start, a new season and a second chance for a bewildered leader. But 29 minutes and 45 seconds into the 2010 UNM football season, the Lobos found themselves down 59-0 to No.
Hopefully the alarm clock was as loud as it could be immediately following the fifth-worst loss in UNM football history. The Lobos fell at the hands of the No.
The 2009 record says it all: 1-11. And how can you forget about the off-the-field incidents? Well fans, students and faculty haven’t forgotten, but for UNM head football coach Mike Locksley and the UNM football team, the past is the past. Except the present is even more daunting.
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