Anyway, we (UNM) lost. We (UNM) will get you next year (perhaps). Go UNM!
Charity, TOm

UNLV nearly upset Wisconsin, it’s true. I didn’t see the game so I can’t speak to the quality of play by Wisconsin. It’s been one of those years for major upsets though. As I said though, they just aren’t that great a team. I hope they become such because I think our conference needs it. Heck, UNLV just needs sports to become good again. They’ve lost it since those big violations in basketball back in the early 90′s.

The point being though, that no one in our conference has really had a big game beyond Utah and UCLA. And that’s the only game Utah’s won. Wyoming had one good game and had they beat Boise I think it would have been great. But the conference just doesn’t have much to point to this year, unlike prior years.

Like CC said, it’s hard to get excited about an other Las Vegas Bowl.

Anyway, it’s hard to accuse me of pessimism when it seems to me the seasons gone about as I expected. I think folks just had very unrealistic expectations for a team with a very, very green quarterback. If anything I’m overall pretty pleased outside of the Tulsa game. (I don’t mind losing if we’re at least playing with heart – and the defense wasn’t, although Hall impressed the heck out of me in that game)

My big remaining worry is discipline, especially in the O-Line. It seems like the defense calmed down quite a bit last week for the AF game. Fewer penalties. But the O-Line was, if anything, almost less disciplined. Admittedly as Blake noted, some of those calls in the Tulsa game were undeserved. But many were deserved and there were deserved calls that never got called.

New Mexico will be a tougher game than usual this year I think. They beat Arizona in Tucson last week and thumped some poor little team 58-0 today. BYU will have to prove it can bring its A game to road games as well or this could be another upset.

I am hardly a football follower, but I thought I would stir the pot just a little.
My son and I attended the UNM vs. Sacramento State game where UNM won 58-0. It was fun, but we choose to go mostly because we got a free tee-shirt and very cheap tickets.

That being said, my brother-in-law has asked me to represent UNM on this board if they beat BYU. So, I will offer a couple of words if this comes to be. And I will post to be a whipping boy if BYU wins.

The BYU vs. UNM game is always interesting as a NM LDS. My brother-in-law’s brother-in-law is (or at least was) the head of the BYU alumni association so I enjoy hearing about or observing their conflicts. Other members here have great passion about the game too. Some of them are for BYU, others for UNM (and some just against one or the other). Part of me wishes I could get that excited.

Charity, TOm