Report: Bob Davie to New Mexico?

Bob Davie

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**UPDATED** 2:05pm eastern: Paul Krebs, the AD at New Mexico confirms this to the ABQJournal. He wouldn't comment other than to say there would be a Thursday press conference.

You can read it RIGHT HERE

Well, if this is true, props to New Mexico for finding a coach with some name recognition.

According to ESPN College Football reporter Joe Schad, New Mexico is going to hire current ESPN commentator and former Notre Dame coach Bob Davie to be their new head coach. Just so you know, Davie hasn't coached a game since being fired by the Irish back in 2001.

New Mexico has arguably been the worst team in College Football over the past three seasons under former head coach Mike Locksley. That of course means Davie has one heck of a rebuilding project. If he could pull this off, he'd be considered the greatest coach in NCAA history.

DEVELOPING: Locksley Finally Fired, Barlow New Head Coach

And, now, where do all the jokes go...???

The Lobos lost Saturday in overtime to Sam Houston State, and that put Mike Locksley at a staggering 2-26 in two-plus seasons at New Mexico...

DC George Barlow is the new boss and there is a press conference set for 3PM local time Monday to address the issue...

Here's KOB-TV's coverage of the Joshua Butts DUI arrest from Saturday...


There were three other minors in the Locksley car when it was pulled over. One of the minors actually told the arresting officer that “I will use my father’s powers” to find out where the officers lived.

And that can NEVER go over well...
It didn't...

CBS' Dennis Dodds make an interesting point...

The Mountain West is in the last year of a review period for AQ status by the NCAA. With New Mexico continual suckage, it could hurt the review process...

HS prospect gets DUI arrest in Locksley's car--and there's more

Mike Locksley

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Sometimes you just can't make up headlines, they make themselves.

Oft troubled and target of ours and so many others ridicule for his poor head coaching skills, University of New Mexico coach Mike Locksley again finds himself in some pretty hot water.

The reason: The Albaquerque Journal reports that 19-year-old Joshua Butts was pulled over and charged with Driving While Intoxicated near the university's football stadium. Butts is a former Illinois high school football star. He told police after his arrest that Mike Locksley gave him the car to use and he was in New Mexico to play football for him.

Further investigation showed the car was registered to Locksley and his wife. The University released a statement saying it was registered to Locksley's son.

Read the entire story from the ABQ Journal RIGHT HERE (hoops to jump through to read it)

The whole story is a bit confusing though there are apparently quite a few ties between Locksley, his family and Butts. The question is whether Butts was a legitimate recruit, an alleged player or just a friend hanging out.

Either way its not good. Locksley has been in and out of trouble for the past going on 3-years and has done nothing on the field other than render the Lobos program as the laughing stock of  the NCAA. And yet he still is the head coach.

Despite the overhwhelming temptation to judge here, we won't. Read and judge for yourself. Look at his track record and the circumstancial evidence here. Any way you read it, it doesn't sound like it is going to end well.

Oh wait, it does get better. Apparently this comes on the heels of UNM's strength and conditioning coach Troy Hatton getting arrested for DWI or DUI on Thursday and being placed on administrative leave.

Awesome!

I don't know why, maybe it is just the UNM admisitrators who are living in a fantasy that Locksley is the best coach for them, but this is what I think of when I think of them: