New Mexico's coach fired

• karen lotz

  

  http://dennis-dodd.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6270202/32255285?ttag=gen10_on_all_fb_na_txt_0001
  

  The firing comes less than a day after a New Mexico recruit was arrested for DWI while driving a car registered to Locksley.

  oops.
• enigmaax

  Gotta say there's more to this than a DWI. I mean, if the 2-26 record, discrimination allegations, and punching an assistant coach weren't enough to fire him, why is a DWI?
• karen lotz

  

  enigmaax;910540 wrote:Gotta say there's more to this than a DWI. I mean, if the 2-26 record, discrimination allegations, and punching an assistant coach weren't enough to fire him, why is a DWI?

  
  well yeah, but having an 18 year old recruit getting picked up for DWI in your car is the proverbial last straw, and its kind of funny. He was supposed to be an awesome recruiter, and maybe that's something that recruits loved about him.
• enigmaax

  karen lotz;910544 wrote:well yeah, but having an 18 year old recruit getting picked up for DWI in your car is the proverbial last straw, and its kind of funny. He was supposed to be an awesome recruiter, and maybe that's something that recruits loved about him.

  I know. I just don't know why the guy wasn't gone a lot sooner. Here's a funny blurb from his bio:
  

  In two seasons as the head coach at New Mexico, Locksley has posted a 2-22 record. Inheriting a program serving three year's NCAA probation with scholarship reductions, Locksley has guided UNM through a difficult time. The Lobos have won just one game each of his first two seasons but Locksley continues to build the program the right way. He remains focused on turning the program around and doing it by building a foundation with young, talented student-athletes.

  Although they'll qualify for the death penalty, they probably won't get it simply because you can't kill what is already dead.