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UNM athletic director Eddie Nunez (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)If you’re wanting to know who the next Lobo men’s basketball coach will be, you are hardly alone.
But get comfortable.
History tells us the wait could be a while yet.
That’s not to imply UNM athletic director Eddie Nuñez hasn’t been working the search since the late-night Feb. 26 announcement that Paul Weir had accepted an agreement to step down as Lobos coach after four seasons. Nuñez has.
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“I think we’re exactly where we thought we would be (a week into the search),” said UNM Deputy Athletic Director David Williams, the point man assisting Nuñez in the national search for the next Lobos coach.
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Lobo players line up during the National Anthem before a Jan. 6 game against Utah State played in Lubbock, Texas. (Courtesy UNM Athletics)
The final six regular-season games for the University of New Mexico men’s basketball team will be played in Colorado, including two designated home games against the Wyoming Cowboys, which will now be played at the U.S. Air Force Academy outside of Colorado Springs.
The move appears to close the door on the possibility of any men’s game being played in the Pit this season the first season that has happened since the venue opened in 1966 and the first time in program history that the Lobos fielded a team but did not play at least one game in the state.