RELAX!!!
GO COOGS!!
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Definitely a very good hire!!
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I guess the area around campus is going to remain poop for another decade…
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UNM Athletics website has a nice thank you page for him.
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??? What is it you expect a UH athletic director can do to upgrade the private property circling UH?
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It is not the most important hire in UH History.
A man got a job. Plain and simple.
Athletic Directors are men, they are not Gods.
If he works out, he works out and all will be fine. If he doesn’t work out we will move on.
Either way we will be fine. We always are.
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You didn’t read the stuff about Alpert putting together a public-private partnership at Tennessee to create an entertainment district near their campus?
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2017 football shouldn’t count against him. He was hired three days before the first game. He took over a program with a coach who had won 16 games the previous two seasons. Before that, New Mexico had won a grand total of 14 games in six years. He’s a veteran AD who brings experience at an SEC blueblood. Clearly, it’s extremely tough to win at UNM, yet New Mexico won 22 conference titles in his seven years. I think he’s a solid hire. TCU’s AD was their assistant AD, and SMU’s was AD at an FCS school.
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Some of the media takes say Nunez was fantastic @ LSU. I can’t help but wonder if Nunez was so great @ LSU, how did he end up at UNM? Hardly seems a step up to me.
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lol so because we didn’t pick Alpert that means Nuñez can’t do it??
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Going from number 2 or 3 to number 1 even at school that’s a step down is still a step up on the career path. Why y’all being weird?
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I would have preferred an old-fashioned back alley crook from the SEC/B10. Somebody that knows how the sausage is made. But I support whatever our leadership decides. They do try to do things for the betterment of our sports programs. They’re nothing if not smart.
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He was promoted to AD, not assistant whatever, so sure he takes the job at a flagship state school in one of the top two G5 conferences.
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All together now, lets “b*tch” . . . . .
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Pez to New Mexico lobos?
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We could have hired some kid off the street with hopes of him being able to do it I guess. But with Alpert there’s precedence.
Beautiful family
On that level they’ll set him up at a G5 where it’s hard to fail and to be ready to come back to a P5 if they want to be an AD quick -
The ones that fail quick are P5 assistants who get their first AD gig at another high pressure P5
I hate the word rising star coming from a sec money making machine - rising star is someone coming from a small place that has cut his teeth
The last guy spent “just under four years as senior associate athletics director for facilities, operations and event management, and capital projects/chief operating officer.” Nunez was the AD for seven years.
Dickey was similar but we passed.
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Hunter Yurachek came from Coastal Carolina.