Was it the much-needed bye week or the much-anticipated return of its former head coach that galvanized the UNM football team’s fading spirits? Either way, the Lobos, who entered the second portion of their season last week, were not first-half-of-the-season bad Saturday against bidding-for-a-bowl San Diego State.
Outplaying and outscoring opponents are two different things for the UNM men’s soccer team. Even though they outshot Cal-State Bakersfield 21-6, the Lobos failed to find the back of the net and ended Sunday’s game in a 0-0 tie in double overtime at the UNM Soccer Complex. “It sucks,” junior Michael Green said.
Empty was the theme of the night at University Stadium. Before a sparse announced crowd of 16,488, the UNM football team came up empty-handed 30-20 against San Diego State on Saturday.
It was a comeback of epic proportions for the UNM volleyball team. Trailing 21-15 in the fourth game, the Lobos capped off a 10-2 run to defeat Utah 3-1 Saturday at Johnson Center. With the win, UNM (13-8 overall, 5-3 Mountain West Conference) moved into a second-place tie with the Utes (10-11, 5-3), trailing league-leading, No.
by Brandon Call bcall@unm.edu Served. After dropping Game One, the UNM volleyball team rebounded for a 3-1 victory over Brigham Young on Thursday at Johnson Center. With the win, UNM improves to 12-8 on the season and 4-3 in the Mountain West Conference action.
Some of the UNM football team’s coaching staff’s wives are starting a canned-food drive Saturday, and it will continue through the Lobos’ Nov.
There is some good news for the UNM football team this Saturday. Embattled head coach Mike Locksley, who is 1-17 at UNM, hopes to capitalize on the fact that the Lobos are 13-2 since 1996 following their bye week.
“That’s a question for Rocky.” Current head football coach Mike Locksley said it deliberately and repeated it at least three times, hoping to evade inquisitions about the past — and more plainly, his predecessor. But the former coach’s name continues to precede him. Yet in the face of his Long-awaited return to University Stadium, San Diego State’s defensive coordinator, after an 11-year UNM marriage that came to an abrupt, and arguably Rocky, conclusion, is just as reticent to answer questions, much to the media’s displeasure. In keeping with a tradition he started last year, Long isn’t granting interviews this week, an SDSU spokesperson said.
UNM basketball fans, meet your new Pit. Still “a mile high and louder than …”, University Arena will have fans’ ears ringing even more with a state-of-the-art sound system.
Even after a 30-win season and a trip to the NCAA tournament, the UNM men’s basketball team still can’t get any respect. The Lobos were picked to finish third in the 2010-11 Mountain West Conference preseason poll, behind BYU and San Diego State. By now, junior guard Phillip McDonald said he expects the Lobos to be picked third in the conference.
Overtime was just fine for the No. 25 UNM women’s soccer team. Senior Kate Wyrick, in her last Lobo home game, scored the golden goal three minutes into the second overtime, giving the Lobos a 1-0 victory over No.
Mr. Gary, here is the key to the Lobo-mobile. There is no doubt that UNM point guard Dairese Gary is in the Lobos’ driver’s seat this season. But how about this nod for Gary heading into his fourth and final year at UNM: a National Player of the Year candidate and first-team All-Mountain West Conference. Gary said his teammates and coaches push him every day to become the best basketball player he can be. “Coach Alford is kind of tough,” he said.
Forget The Pit renovations; there is a renovated team on south campus. UNM women’s basketball is constructing a plan to get back into the NCAA tournament after a two-year hiatus in the WNIT. Head coach Don Flanagan said he is optimistic about what he has seen in preseason workouts. “Returning players have come back in good shape,” he said.
By nature of her name, Amanda Best is best known for the big, red glasses she flaunts in her UNM women’s basketball team mug shot. One could say it’s kind of her trademark. When asked at Tuesday’s Lobo women’s basketball media day why she wasn’t wearing her big, red glasses, Best confessed her negligence. “I forgot them,” she said. Around the Rudy Davalos basketball facility, Best is known for her humor.
After being on the road for six straight games, the No. 25 UNM women’s soccer team threw out the welcome mat for San Diego State. But on Friday, the visitors were met with an inhospitable result, and the Lobos topped the Aztecs 2-1 at the UNM Soccer Complex.
It was a Sunday to forget for the UNM men’s soccer team. The Lobos (4-4-2) came up short against Air Force 3-2, giving up three goals in less than a six-minute span at the UNM Soccer Complex — this after losing 1-0 to Denver at home Friday. At one point, the Falcons scored two goals in 38 seconds. “I am a little bit shocked to be honest,” head Coach Jeremy Fishbein said.
LAS CRUCES — By the grace of God, it mercifully ended without any need for overtime. After Lobo quarterback Brad Gruner unfurled a gaggle of errant passes on the UNM football team’s final drive, and a last-gasp, intended-for-who-knows-who ball was intercepted, New Mexico State had its first win of the season. It was a 16-14 meat-grinding victory that made the seeing wish they were blind and the living wish they were dead under the lights at Aggie Memorial Stadium on Saturday. “One that will sit in our craw for the next two weeks,” head coach Mike Locksley said, when addressing the media outside of the visitors’ locker room.
LAS CRUCES — It was judgment day for two of the statistically worst football teams in the country, and New Mexico State survived. The UNM football team dropped to 0-6 overall in a 16-14 loss to NMSU (1-4) at Aggie Memorial Stadium on Saturday.
It’s college football at its finest. The UNM football team (0-5) travels south to Las Cruces to face in-state rival NMSU (0-4) on Saturday in a game nationally considered to be the Gaffe Bowl. But ignore the statistics and rankings, because the hatred between the Aggies and the Lobos has blossomed this week leading up to the annual game. “I have a winning record down there, and that’s how I would like to keep it,” middle linebacker Carmen Messina said. And throw UNM and NMSU’s winless records out the window, especially for Lobo players, because, for now, 2010 is a one-game season. The Aggies pulled out a 20-17 victory in Albuquerque last year.
It was a matter-of-fact declaration from an honest-to-the-bone coach: “If they stop believing in DeWayne Walker, then it’s time to do what you got to do.” The condensed version: If they don’t believe in me, they might as well fire me. Yet despite a comparative record to UNM head football coach Mike Locksley, NMSU head coach DeWayne Walker does not have the same amount of visible detractors.
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