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Erik Cook gives Lobo fans
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tick away from the football
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Get some insight into first-
year head coach Mike Loc-
skley’s philosophies for his
offense and defense
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STAFF
Sports Editor
Sam Aselstine
Reporters
Greg Archuleta,
Rick Wright
Designer
Beth Trujillo
Cover photo
Roberto E. Rosales
ON THE COVER: Mike
Locksley is embarking
on his first season as the
head coach of a football
program, the University
of New Mexico Lobos.
LOBO FOOTBALL
Faith
Locksley, UNM entrust each other to bring success to Lobo football
By Greg Archuleta
Journal Staff Writer
M
ike Locksley is an
experienced risk-
taker.
But one cold
night in 2003, Locksley
sprang up from his bed. Only
hours earlier, the hot-shot col-
lege football recruiting coor-
dinator accepted a new job,
and he now was in a second-
guessing frenzy.
Locksley was about to
uproot his family — again.
The Washington D.C. native
was leaving his back yard at
the University of Maryland,
which had just finished an
11-3 season in 2002 that result-
ed in a No. 13 national rank-
ing. He was taking the same
job at Florida, a place with
which he was unfamiliar.
For less money.
Locksley was terrified he’d
made a mistake. And this is a
man who doesn’t scare easily.
Having grown up in D.C.’s
nightmarish southeast sec-
tion in the early 1980s, Lock-
sley’s been a tough guy most
of his life.
Had to be. It’s probably the
only way you can survive
watching several of your
friends shot and killed on the
inner-city streets or going to
prison because of drugs.
And now, he’s apprehen-
sive? Over football?
This was different. Lock-
sley’s decisions no longer
affected just him. He was
married with four children.
“Man, I was nervous,”
Locksley recalls of that night.
“I kept saying, ‘I can’t do this,
I can’t do this.’ ”
In fact, he undid his deci-
sion. Locksley called Gators
coach Ron Zook the next
morning and backed out.
That’s when Locksley’s voice
of reason intervened.
“I was at home and my wife
came up to me and basically
called me out,” Locksley said
of his wife, Kia. “She said,
‘You’ve never been afraid of
anything in your life. You
need to do what’s best for
your career.’ ”
COACH LOCKSLEY
Mike Locksley figures he must be successful at UNM or he won’t get another chance to be a
head coach. He believes he can turn the Lobos into long-term winners.
The word, “afraid,” hung in
the air. Hearing it shook up
Locksley. He got on the phone,
called Zook right back and re-
accepted the position.
“He had to take a leap of
faith,” Kia says.
It was that same penchant
for calculated risk six years
later that brought Locksley to
the University of New Mexico
as its 29th head football coach
— his wife playing an integral
role in that decision as well.
The man, who believes
he has one shot at being a
head coach, chose to lead a
program that hasn’t won a
conference championship in
45 years.
Talk about a scary
proposition.
“I think for Mike, he has a
chance to come in and really
put his mark on a program,
mold it and shape it in his
own name,” Kia says. “We’re
here because he was afforded
that opportunity here.”
Likewise, UNM athletics
director Paul Krebs put him-
self out on a limb in hiring a
first-time head coach. Krebs
says he heeded the words of
outgoing Lobo coach Rocky
Long, who said the Lobos
needed “a miracle worker.”
Whether Locksley is that
coach is pure conjecture
at this point. What is fact:
Locksley never has been
fired in almost two decades
as a football coach, being
retained twice during coach-
ing changes.
Better flavor:
orange or cherry?
Opportunities for black
head coaches in the Division
I-A ranks are slim.
Only seven of the 120 Divi-
sion I-A head coaches are
black.
“Being a minority, I was
probably just going to get one
shot at being a head coach,
unless I was successful,”
Locksley says.
That he felt UNM was the
place he could have success
speaks to his belief in the uni-
versity. Had Locksley waited
two more days, he might’ve
been running the show at
Syracuse.
joUrNaL fiLE
A Big East Conference pro-
gram. A Bowl Championship
Series program.
Locksley says initially he
was more interested in the
Orange than in the cherry.
Three factors turned Lock-
sley’s attention toward the
Land of Enchantment:
UNM President David
Schmidly’s involvement in
UNM’s search.
The Lobos were the first to
offer Locksley a head coach-
ing job.
Kia’s involvement in her
husband’s career, which was
the biggest factor.
“He said it was just an inter-
view and that was that,” Kia
recalls of the initial contact
from UNM. “But after he
mentioned it, I got online and
did research on New Mexico. I
called him and told him, ‘You
need to forget about Syracuse;
we need to go to New Mexico.
And he was like, ‘What?’
“I said, ‘Oh my gosh, let me
give you some facts.’ There
was just so much information
that I said this is the place for
See LOCKSLEY on PAGE 3
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Locksley Survived Mean D.C. Streets
from PAGE 2
us. We’ve got to go here.”
UNM offered Locksley the job Dec.
7 and gave him 24 hours to decide. He
quickly called Syracuse.
“That other place said, ‘Can
you wait until Wednesday?’ They
were still interviewing some other
candidates.
“This job was attractive enough
to me that I didn’t want to wait and I
wasn’t willing to wait.”
Cream rises to the top
Locksley’s ascension to UNM foot-
ball’s head honcho is one of those sto-
ries worthy of movie-script material.
Born on Christmas Day in 1969 to
Mike and Venita Locksley in Wash-
ington D.C., Locksley’s father desert-
ed the family when the younger Mike
— the third of four children — was
entering the sixth grade. Left Venita
and the kids homeless.
The D.C. street life sucked up older
brothers Bryant and Eric; both served
time in prison. Locksley says several
of his friends were shot and killed
while he grew up there.
He says his involvement in the local
chapter of the Boys and Girls Club
saved him from a similar fate. Lock-
sley played every sport imaginable,
but the club taught him life lessons as
well and even helped get him a job on
Capitol Hill.
Locksley made his way through Bal-
lou High School and went to Division
I-AA Towson on a football scholarship
as a 6-foot, 160-pound safety.
“I called him ‘Manute Bol,’” says
former Towson head coach Gordy
Combs, who was defensive coordina-
LOBO FOOTBALL
2009 SCHEDULE
Sep. 5 at Texas A&M 5 p.m.
Sep. 12 Tulsa 6 p.m.
Sep. 19 Air Force 5:30 p.m.
Sep. 26 NMSU 8 p.m.
Oct. 3 at Texas Tech 5 p.m.
Oct. 10 at Wyoming noon
Oct. 24 UNLV 6 p.m.
(homecoming)
Oct. 31 at SDSU 5:30 p.m.
Nov. 7 at Utah 4 p.m.
Nov. 14 BYU noon
Nov. 21 Colo. State 4 p.m.
Nov. 28 at TCU 11 a.m.
Ticket information: 925-LOBO;
schedules subject to change
All times Mountain
tor when Locksley played. Bol was a
7-foot-7, 225-pound and rail-thin NBA
player from 1985-1994.
Locksley also became a father his
freshman year, his then-girlfriend
Cheryl Hansberry giving birth to
Mike Jr. (Locksley clarifies he’s not
“Junior” because he and his father
have different middle names).
Mike then was a senior when he met
Kia on her first day of school at a fresh-
man orientation barbecue. Kia says she
resisted Mike’s charms for all of a week
before agreeing to a date. The two have
been together ever since.
By the end of that year, Locksley
COACH LOCKSLEY
was a team captain and earned
team defensive most valuable player
honors. Before he graduated, Mike
became a father for the second time.
Locksley says that his early experi-
ences have helped him become a
better guide and adviser to his own
players.
“One of the benefits of my back-
ground,” he says, “is there’s very few
things that a player can come in, sit in
my office and say to me that I haven’t
experienced, seen or done.”
On the fast track
A short time after he completed his
senior year on the football team, at
age 22, Locksley got a full-time assis-
tant job coaching defensive backs and
special teams for Combs, who was
now the Towson head coach.
“He had a great football IQ,” says
Combs, now an assistant at Johns
Hopkins. “And you could tell he had a
tremendous personality. As a player,
he got along with every player on
the team, from every walk of life. I
think that’s why he’s a tremendous
recruiter. He can relate to all societies
of people.”
Locksley picked up things from
every coaching stop that he’s incorpo-
rated into his own style.
Under Chuck Shelton at Pacific,
Locksley first heard the mantra,
“Work for the job you have, not the
one you want.”
Ron Vanderlinden at Maryland,
coined the phrase, “I want to take kids
where they can’t take themselves aca-
demically, athletically and socially.”
Locksley credits Ralph Friedgen,
who succeeded Vanderlinden, for rais-
ing his football IQ exponentially.
3
“Under Ralph Friedgen, the football
part of me came alive,” Locksley says.
“I learned more football in the two
years I was with Friedgen on offense
than anywhere I’d ever been.”
Locksley, however, made that dif-
ficult decision to leave Friedgen and
Maryland to coach under Ron Zook
at Florida because he thought he was
being pigeonholed only as a great
recruiter with the Terrapins.
Locksley called Friedgen, who was
in Hawaii coaching in the Hula Bowl
to tell him he was leaving, called back
to say he was staying and then called
again to say he was, in fact, going.
“We were really lucky coach Fried-
gen happened to be out of town at the
time,” Zook says with a laugh.
Locksley spent two years with
Zook before Zook was fired in 2003.
Locksley stayed on at Florida under
Urban Meyer until Zook resurfaced at
Illinois and offered Locksley his first
offensive coordinator position.
Locksley credits Zook for preparing
him to become a head coach.
Zook politely disagrees.
“I appreciate him making that com-
ment, but Mike Locksley’s done every-
thing for himself,” Zook says. “Very
seldom did I make a major decision
without running it by him and getting
his opinion.”
Lobo Football 101
Locksley now must form a bond
with the what he calls the “Lobo
Nation.” He started quickly, getting
on the Albuquerque/Rio Grande Boys
and Girls Club Board of Directors.
Locksley says new coaching staffs
generally require three or four years
See LOCKSLEY on PAGE 10
4 September 2009
What’s Cookin?
Lobo lineman Erik Cook shares his likes, dislikes in music, food and movies
By Greg Archuleta
Journal Staff Writer
S
enior center Erik
Cook is about to play
in front of the largest
crowd for a football
game in his career. He thinks
Saturday’s season opener
could be one of his favorite
memories as a football
player.
The Cibola High School
product shares some of his
other likes and dislikes — on
and off the field.
JOURNAL: What’s the best
part about being a Lobo foot-
ball player?
COOK: Just playing college
football in my hometown.
There’s nothing better than
coming out here and playing
in front of all your family
and friends.
JOURNAL: What’s the worst
part about being a Lobo foot-
ball player?
COOK: We don’t get as
much respect as we deserve,
I think, especially in this
conference with the big three
(TCU, Brigham Young, Utah)
and in the nation, too. I feel
we don’t get much respect.
JOURNAL: Do students on
campus recognize who you
are?
COOK: Some do. Some
don’t. As linemen, we’re big-
ger than normal. If they’re
football fans, they recognize
you. A lot of people recognize
me for my brother (Ryan,
an offensive lineman for the
Minnesota Vikings).
JOURNAL: What do they
talk about?
COOK: It’s all been good.
Everything’s been about foot-
ball. I get a lot of questions
about my brother — how he
likes (teammate Brett) Favre.
It’s all positive.
JOURNAL: Who’s your
favorite NFL team?
COOK: My favorite NFL
team ... if I don’t say the
Vikings, I guess I’ll say San
Diego.
JOURNAL: I thought you
were going to say the team
that drafts you.
COOK: I don’t want to go
that far yet, but yeah, if we’re
going to throw that out there,
the one who decides to pick
me.
LOBO FOOTBALL
Lobo center Erik Cook is widely considered the Lobos’ strongest candidate for the NFL draft.
JOURNAL: What’s your
favorite class at UNM?
COOK: I don’t know. I’m
doing a bunch of (commu-
nication and journalism)
classes.
JOURNAL: What’s your
favorite food?
COOK: I like spaghetti and
ERIK COOK
lo mein noodles. I like pastas,
pretty much
JOURNAL: Any food you
hate?
COOK: I hate olives! I can’t
stand olives. I’m not a big
fish guy, either. I think I’m
allergic to something. I don’t
like fish and I definitely can’t
JOURNAL FILE
stand olives!
JOURNAL: What kind of
music do you listen to?
COOK: I listen to all kinds:
country, hip-hop, rock, I have
a wide variety of music. As
long as it sounds good to me,
I’ll listen to it.
JOURNAL: Any music you
Cook Bio
Erik Cook is considered
the Lobos’ most talented
player and their most NFL
draft-eligible player.
Number: 69
Height/Weight: 6-6/318
Position: Center
Year: SR
Hometown/High school:
Albuquerque/Cibola
Birthdate: 07/05/1987
Notes: One of the premier
OL in the Mountain MWC
and leader of the Lobos’
offensive line group,
dubbed The Hitmen...2009
All-America and Rimington
Trophy (best center)
candidate.
don’t like?
COOK: Not really. I have an
open mind to music.
JOURNAL: Favorite movie?
COOK: “The Program” is
one of my favorite college
football movies.
JOURNAL: Do you have a
favorite cartoon character?
COOK: I don’t know if you
consider him a cartoon
character, but I like Cookie
monster.
JOURNAL: Why is that?
COOK: Just because it’s
been in my family so long.
My dad has a Cookie Monster
tattoo. My brother’s been
called, “Cookie Monster,”
I’ve been called “Cookie
Monster.”
JOURNAL: Can we find you
on YouTube, other than in
your Lobo uniform?
COOK: I hope not.
JOURNAL: What are you
looking forward to most
about your Texas A&M trip?
COOK: Just the experience.
I was reading the other day
that this is going to be the
third-largest crowd we’ve
(the Lobos) ever played in.
There’s nothing greater than
playing in front of a crowd
like that. It’s going to be an
amazing experience. I know
a lot of people in Texas;
they’re excited to see us play
at Kyle Field. Great stadium.
 September 2009 5
LOBO FOOTBALL KEY PLAYERS

Several Lobos Crucial for Team Success

By Greg Archuleta
Journal Staff Writer
The University of New Mexico
football team heads into the 2009
season with a theme that a comic
book super villain would love.
Riddle me this, riddle me that.
And while you’re at it, riddle me
the other, too.
The Lobos have so many ques-
tions heading into the 2009 sea-
son, that it’s nearly impossible to
know how much success they can
have under first-year coach Mike
Locksley.
Which is why Mountain West
Conference media pegged UNM
seventh in their preseason poll
over the summer — the lowest
the Lobos have been projected in
nine years.
Locksley changed every facet of
the program in replacing longtime
boss Rocky Long. Offensively,
UNM has changed from a ball-
control, ground-oriented attack
designed to eat up the clock and
shorten the game to a no-huddle,
up-tempo spread attack designed
to create chaos for opposing
defenses.
On the other side of the ball,
the Lobos have turned in Long’s
unique 3-3-5 design that empha-
sized controlled chaos in favor of
a more traditional 4-3 scheme that
focuses on proper fundamentals,
players responsible for holding
their respective positions and
limiting the big play.
UNM also will rely on as many
as 17 redshirts or true freshmen
to help facilitate those changes —
show as much youth as any time
during Long’s era.
Whether the Lobos’ current
players can adapt to considerably
different schemes will start to be
answered this weekend in Col-
lege Station, Texas, against Texas
A&M.
The following players will be
key in helping UNM make a suc-
cessful transition.
DONOVAN PORTERIE: The 6-foot-
3, 206-pound senior quarterback
has started 22 games during the
past three seasons, but he is com-
ing back from offseason knee sur-
gery that wiped out the final eight
games of the 2008 season.
Porterie, whose hometown of
Port Arthur, Texas, is less than
200 miles east of College Station,
also is learning his fourth offen-
sive scheme in five years.
However, he did have a 3,000-
yard passing season in 2007 under
then first-year coordinator Dave
Baldwin.
ROLAND BRUNO: The senior wide
receiver from Beaumont, Texas
(150 miles from College Station),
has excelled during fall camp and
been the most consistent pass-
catcher.
The shifty 5-10, 168-pound
Bruno is a good fit for the spread
option, that tries to get the football
to its playmakers in space. A for-
mer walk-on, Bruno has 45 career
receptions for 428 yards.
DEMOND DENNIS: Talk about
shi fty, with speed. The 5 -9
196-pound true freshman from
Atlanta stepped onto the field for
fall camp and started running
away ... from every Lobo defender
during every practice.
Dennis was a Class 3A All-State
tailback at Carver High School in
Georgia, rushing for 1,627 yards
on only 125 carries. That’s an
average of 13 yards per carry, for
the mathematically challenged.
JAYMAR LATCHISON: The 6-3,
245-pound sophomore defensive
end from New York steps into a
starting role after collecting 2½
sacks as a backup last season.
Latchison should be a beneficia-
ry of the switch to the 4-3. With the
defensive line primarily respon-
sible for putting pressure on the
opposing quarterback, Latchison’s
sole responsibility will be to get
around the edge. He’s shown the
quickness to do that throughout
preseason practice.
DENNIS
CARME N ME S SINA : A 6 -2,
222-pound sophomore middle line-
backer, the Addison, Ill., native
also should be involved in more
plays this season.
Messina, who also steps into a
starting role in 2009, was required
to take on as many blockers as he
could under the previous defensive
scheme. This year, he’ll have the LATCHISON
ability to roam the field, use his
speed to chase the football and use
his Arnold Schwarzenegger-like
guns to put the hurt on runners.
IAN CLARK: The 6-2, 215-pound
senior free safety out of Highland
High School must help protect an
inexperienced corps of corner-
backs. Clark, however, also has a
penchant for make plays close to MESSINA
the line of scrimmage because of
his instincts for the ball.
He also was the second-leading
punt-returner in the nation last
year with a school-record 19.8
yards per return. Clark’s produc-
tion, however, will be determined
by his health. He’s had shoulder
injuries, and dislocated his left
shoulder during fall camp. CLARK

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LOBO FOOTBALL OFFENSE/DEFENSE

OFFENSE
Head coach Mike Locksley took a play out of his massive playbook and has given a basic description to illustrate
DEFENSE
Locksley then counters with a defense UNM might run against such a play — spread offenses are the rage these
some of the inner workings of his spread offensive scheme. days in college football; six teams the Lobos will face this season ran variations of the spread — to detail the
objectives on that side of the ball.

We’re a no-huddle attack
of multiple tempos that
allow us to attack.
The offensive play comes
in from the sidelines. The
offense aligns in formation,
and the quarterback looks
over and is directed to run
the play or change the play
as directed by offensive
Donovan Porterie
coordinator Darrell Dickey.
is learning a new
system under
Mike Locksley.
In this particular play: We will operate our base out of a four
defensive lineman look with three
n The quarterback has a drop-back concept out of a 2x2 formation (double wide receivers on both linebackers, two safeties and two
sides of the formation). cornerbacks.
n The quarterback takes a five-step, timed drop from shotgun formation. Based on the coverage he We have the ability based on the personnel
reads after the snap, he begins his progression for the route. Every receiver route has a starting point of the offense to go to a 4-2 with five
and ending point, all based on coverage as well as down and distance. defensive backs, called our “nickel,” or a 3-2
n In this play, the quarterback would read the weak-side linebacker and high-low him with the Z and Y with six defensive backs.
receivers. The running back would be his last option, or checkdown.
If the offense huddles, we will huddle.
A defensive coach will signal the front call
— where we align our defensive linemen
and linebackers — as well as our coverage
assignment in the secondary.
In this particular play:
n We would be in a base 4-3 alignment. Our safeties would be in a two-deep look
(covering the deep halves of the field to prevent long passes).
n The defensive linemen are up-the-field penetrators. The defensive ends are
responsible for containing the quarterback.
n Our linebackers are guys that can run and hit. We like our outside linebackers to
be athletic enough to play in space. Our Mike (middle) linebacker must be a physical
plugger.
The cornerbacks in our defense must have speed and athleticism to play man-
n
coverage, yet be physical enough to tackle.
n The safeties are athletic and physical. They must be able to play in the box as well
as deep-half technique. They coordinate with the linebackers in run and pass support.

— Mike Locksley, UNM head coach (as explained to Greg Archuleta)

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Can Locksley
 Work Miracles?
A
miracle, as defined
by Noah Webster,
doesn’t have to
involve the divine
or supernatural. It also
can be just “an extremely
remarkable achievement or
event,” or “an unexpected
piece of luck.”
A miracle worker, as
defined by former UNM
football coach Rocky Long, is
someone who can do what his
11-season, steady-as-she-goes
stewardship failed to do: take
the Lobos to the top of the
Mountain West Conference
standings.
Based on both history
and the present reality,
that indeed would be a
remarkable achievement/
event. A little luck wouldn’t
hurt, either, in a program
that has come to expect none.
But then, if it’s true that one
makes one’s own luck, UNM
football rarely has done so.
As for the divine/
supernatural: Sure, Noah
says a miracle doesn’t have
to involve those. But they’re
definitely No. 1 and No. 2 in
his rankings.
And when regarding a
program that hasn’t won
a conference title since
1964 — division titles don’t
count — one can’t help but
think divine or ghostly
intervention might be
necessary.
The questions before us
now, though, are these:
Does first-year Lobos coach
Mike Locksley fit Long’s
description of miracle
worker, and what should be
the definition of “miracle” in
Locksley’s maiden voyage?
Taking the second question
first, it would seem — based
on preseason estimates —
that the Lobos’ miracle bar is
lower than a snake’s belly in
a wagon-wheel rut.
The pollsters, pundits
and prognosticators have
ranked the Lobos no higher
than seventh and as low as
ninth, that’s dead last, in the
MWC. If Locksley were to
guide UNM to even a sixth-
place finish, even that might
qualify as a small miracle.
If the Lobos were to finish
as high as fourth, that would
be David Copperfield/Lance
Burton material.
Top three? Considering
that Mountain West bullies
TCU, Utah and Brigham
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Of the Journal
RICK WRIGHT

Of the Journal
Young all are ranked in the
national preseason Top 25,
divine and/or supernatural
might be understating the
situation.
OK, now for that other
question. Is Locksley the guy
who can do for UNM what
Urban Meyer did for Utah,
or at least what Harry Potter
did for Hogwarts?
Late last fall, even before
he stepped down, Long was
talking about the need for
a miracle-worker coach to
finish the job he’d started at
his alma mater. Exhibit A, he
said, was Meyer, the guy who
took Utah to an undefeated
season and a BCS bowl
victory in 2004. Meyer then
left for Florida, where he
hasn’t done badly, either.
Meyer being thus
unavailable for the New
Mexico job, UNM athletics
director Paul Krebs set about
finding the next-best thing. It
was Krebs who’d given Meyer
New Mexico
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his first head-coaching gig
at Bowling Green, so that
was encouraging from a
miracle-worker standpoint.
Krebs’ track record at UNM
in hiring coaches for other
sports has been impressive,
too.
He settled on Locksley, who
brought with him a glossy
résumé from assistant-
coaching stops at Maryland,
Florida (no, not under Meyer)
and Illinois.
But is he that miracle
worker?
Here’s what I see: Locksley
has dramatically changed
the culture within the UNM
program — something Long
journal file
Rocky Long said upon his resignation that a miracle worker was
all but admitted had to
happen if that elusive next needed to find true success with the UNM football program.
level were to be reached.
hiring process, and that he’d Demond Dennis the miracle
Locksley has revamped
seen in Meyer when he hired recruit that he appears to be?
not just the offense and
him at Bowling Green. Nor Have the large gentlemen in
defense, but the conditioning
do I see the depth of on-field the trenches learned their
program and the practice
talent that Meyer inherited new assignments well? Can
tempo. The first four days
of preseason practice, the from Ron McBride, his Locksley’s spread offense (if
predecessor at Utah. that’s really what it is) light
innovative new coach split
the team into two groups to Football miracles, when up the scoreboard, as he
they happen, are built upon pledged when he was hired in
allow younger players more
repetitions. Last Saturday, the mundane: talent, work December?
ethic, freedom from injury. If the answers to all the
a week before the season
opener at Texas A&M, he Can quarterback Donovan above are yes, at least a mini-
Porterie stay healthy and miracle could be at hand.
put his troops through a
simulated game. perform consistently? Can If the answers are no, or
his receivers — not a Marcus maybe, or ask again later,
Here’s what I haven’t Smith or a Travis Brown there’s always next year.
seen, at least not yet: the among them — get open For Lobo fans, there always
off-the-field charisma and and catch the ball? Is true has been.
savvy that Krebs said he freshman running back
was looking for during the
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 September 2009
Darrell Dickey
(Kansas State 1983) —
Offensive coordinator
■ 29th year as a collegiate
coach (age 49)
■ Most recently offensive
coordinator at Utah State
(2007-08)
■ Head coach at North Texas
(1998-2006)
■ Guided
the Mean
Green to four
consecutive
conference
champi-
onships
between
2001-04
■ North Texas posted a 25-1
conference record between
2001-04
■ Led UNT to 2002 New
Orleans Bowl victory (24-19
over Cincinnati)
■ UNT produced back-to-back
NCAA rushing leaders (Patrick
Cobbs, 2003; Jamario Thom-
as, 2004)
■ Former quarterback at Kansas
State, led the Wildcats to the
1982 Independence Bowl, the
school’s first bowl game
Doug Mallory
(Michigan, 1988) — Defen-
sive Coordinator
■ 21st year as a collegiate
coach (age 44)
■ Most recently co-defensive
coordinator (2008) and defen-
sive backs coach (2005-08)
at LSU
■ Tigers fin-
ished 32nd
nationally in
total defense
(325.5
yards/game),
17th in rush-
ing defense
(110.2
yards/game) and 42nd in
pass efficiency defense
(116.6 rating) in 2008
■ LSU was No. 3 in the nation
in pass efficiency defense
from 2005-07, leading the
SEC in 2005 and 2006
■ LSU ranked No. 1 in the SEC
and No. 3 in the nation in
pass defense (145.7 yards/
game) in 2006
■ Coached in 2008 BCS
National Championship Game
(W, 38-24 vs. Ohio State),
2007 Sugar Bowl (W, 41-14
vs. Notre Dame) and 2005
Peach Bowl (W, 40-3 vs.
Miami)
LOBO FOOTBALL
Toby Neinas
(Missouri 1995) — Special
Teams, LBs
■ 14th year as a collegiate
coach (age 37)
■ Most recently special teams
coordinator (2005-08) and
outside linebackers (2008)
coach at San Diego State
■ Coached Tyler Schmitt, who
was the only
deep snap-
per taken
in the 2008
NFL Draft
(6th round)
■ Coached
Honorable
Mention
All-America
punter Michael Hughes, who
ranked 11th nationally in punt-
ing average
■ Also coached tight ends
(2006-07)
■ Inside linebackers (2004-
05) and defensive line (2002-
03) coach at Temple
■ Owls were ranked 15th
nationally in run defense in
2002
■ Coached defensive tackle
Dan Klecko, the 2002 Big
East Conference Defensive
Player of the Year
George Barlow
(Marshall, 1990) — Defensive
Backs
■ 19th year as a collegiate
coach
■ Most recently assistant head
coach/defensive coordinator
and safeties
coach at
James Madi-
son (2004-
08)
■ Also
coached
defensive
line (2002-
03) and run-
ning backs
(1999-2001)
■ James Madison (12-2) was
the top-ranked team in the
FCS last year before falling in
the playoff semifinals
■ Spent three years at Okla-
homa, coaching outside
linebackers/strong safeties
(1998) and as a defensive
graduate assistant (1996-97)
■ Defensive coordinator at
West Virginia State (1995)
and defensive line coach at
Hutchison Community College
(1994)
ASST. COACHES
Cheston
Blackshear
(Florida 2000) — Offensive
Line, TEs
■ Seventh year as a collegiate
coach (age 31)
■ Most recently offensive line
(2007-08)
and tight
ends (2006)
coach at
Columbia
■ Graduate
assistant at
Illinois (2005)
and Florida
(2002-04),
working with the offensive line
and tight ends
■ Coached with Mike Locksley
at both schools
■ Four-year letterman at
Florida (1995-99), starting 28
times in 41 games at offen-
sive guard
■ Second-team all-SEC hon-
oree as a senior
■ Recipient of the 1999 Fergie
Ferguson Award given to the
Gator senior with the most lead-
ership, character and courage
■ Competed in four January
bowl games, playing for the
national championship in the
1996 Sugar Bowl
Rubin Carter
(Miami, 1975) — Defensive
Line
■ 21st year as a collegiate and
professional
coach (age
56)
■ Most
recently head
coach at
Florida A&M
(2005-07)
■ NFL defen-
sive line
coach for the New York Jets
(2001-03), Washington Red-
skins (1999-2000) and Den-
ver Broncos (1987-88)
■ Coached Pro Bowl players
John Abraham, Shawn Ellis,
Marco Coleman, Greg
Kragen, Rulon Jones and Karl
Mecklenburg
■ Defensive line coach at
Temple (2004), Maryland
(1997-98) and San Jose State
(1995-96)
■ 12-year DT for the Denver
Broncos (1975-1986)
■ Played on five AFC West
Championship teams and in two
Super Bowls (1978, 1987) as
a key member of the Broncos’
famed “Orange Crush” defense
9
Mike Degory Tee Martin
(Florida 2006) — Centers,
(Tennessee 2003)
— Quarterbacks
Guards
■ Fourth year as a collegiate
■ Third year as a collegiate
and high school coach (age
coach (age 26)
30)
■ Most recently a graduate
■ Most recently offensive
assistant at Illinois (2007-08)
coordinator/
on Locksley’s offensive staff
quarterback
■ Helped mold one of the top
coach at
offensive lines in the nation
North Atlanta
at Illinois, which finished fifth
High School
nationally in both rushing
(2008) and
offense and fewest sacks
coach for
allowed in 2007
Elite 11
■ Four-year center at Florida,
Quarterback
starting a school-record 50
Camps
games in his college career
(2007-08), Nike Football Train-
(2001-05)
ing Camps (2007-08) and
■ Two-year team captain and
Nike Combine Tour (2008)
played in four
■ Coached and evaluated over
bowl games
1,000 quarterbacks, including
■ First team
over 30 Division I signees
All-America
■ Owns Playmakers Sports,
and all-SEC
a company specializing in
honoree, and
sports event planning, quar-
Rimington
terback training and skills
Trophy finalist
development
in 2005
■ Led the 13-0 Volunteers to
■ Second-
the 1998 national champion-
team all-SEC in 2003 and
ship with a victory over Florida
2004 and Freshman All-Ameri-
State in the Fiesta Bowl
can in 2002
■ Set what was then the NCAA
■ Academic All-American (2005)
record for consecutive com-
■ Mike Locksley was the RB
pletions (24) in 1998
coach at Florida his sopho-
more and junior years
■ Led Tennessee to its sec-
ond consecutive BCS bowl in
■ Super Prep All-American at
Palm Bay (Fla.) High School
1999 (Fiesta)
■ Played four years in the NFL
(Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Oak-
J.B. Gerald land) and in NFL Europe
■ Led the Rhein Fire to an NFL
(Colgate, 2004) — Wide Europe best 7-3 record and
Receivers/Recruiting berth in the World Bowl
Coordinator ■ Played two seasons in the
■ Fifth year as a collegiate coach
Canadian Football League
(age 26) with the Winnipeg Blue Bomb-
■ Most
ers (2004-05)
recently
offensive
quality con- Troy Hatton
trol coach
(Illinois,
at Illinois
1998) —
(2008) on
Football
Mike Lock-
Strength &
sley’s offen-
Conditioning
sive staff
Coach
■ Graduate assistant at Penn
■ Most
State under Joe Paterno from
recently
2005-07
assistant
■ Coached in the 2005 Orange
strength
Bowl, 2006 Outback Bowl and
coach at Illinois, working with
2007 Alamo Bowl
football from 2005-08
■ Wide receiver and punt/kick
returner at Colgate (2000-03)
■ F inished with 113
catches for 1,334 yards
New Staff
and 9 touchdowns in his First-year UNM head
4 3 - game career football coach Mike Lock-
■ Helped Colgate (15-1) reach sley has replaced all 10
the 2003 Division I-AA national assistant coaches.
championship game
10 September 2009
LOBO FOOTBALL ROSTER

No. Name Ht./Wt. Pos. Yr. 39 Joe Stoner 5-10/224 LB FR
1 Demond Dennis 5-9/196 RB FR 41 Dallas Bollema 6-2/210 LB FR
2 Emmanuel McPhearson 5-10/184 CB FR
3 Adam Watson 5-10/172 WR FR
4 Demarcus Rogers 5-11/170 Ath. FR
5 Daryl Jones 6-4/211 WR SR
6 Anthony Hooks 5-11/175 CB SO
7 Bryant Williams 5-11/205 WR JR
8 Bryant Bruno 5-10/166 WR SR
9 Michael Scarlett 6-1/178 WR SO
10 Brad Gruner 6-2/226 QB SO
11 Clint McPeek 6-2/227 LB SR
12 B.R. Holbrook 6-3/181 QB FR
12 James Aho 5-10/191 K SO
13 James Wright 6-0/239 RB SO
14 Adam Miller 6-2/247 P SR
15 Donovan Porterie 6-3/206 QB SR
16 Victor James 6-1/199 WR SR
17 Freddy Young 6-1/195 CB FR
18 Chris Hernandez 6-3/184 WR JR
19 Myles Daughtry 6-1/180 WR FR
21 Kasey Carrier 5-9/175 RB FR
23 Terence Brown 6-0/193 RB JR
25 Tate Smith 6-1/198 QB JR
26 Frankie Baca 5-0/199 S SR
27 Jesse Paulsen 6-1/188 S FR
28 Bubba Forrest 6-1/205 S SO
29 DeShawn Mills 5-10/170 CB FR
30 Ian Clark 6-0/215 S SR
31 Dante Caro 6-0/174 S FR
32 Josh Fussell 6-2/255 FB JR
33 Danny Martin 6-1/210 S SR
34 A.J. Butler 6-0/200 RB FR
35 Ben Skaer 6-0/185 P FR
37 Chris Biren 6-2/253 FB FR
38 Edrick Boger 5-11/163 CB FR
44 Joe Harris 6-2/224 LB FR
45 Terel Anyaibe 6-1/229 LB JR
46 Spencer Merritt 6-2/220 LB FR
47 Nathan Enriquez 5-11/178 CB FR
48 Jaymar Latchison 6-3/251 DE SO
50 Cody Neely 6-3/224 LB JR
52 Tim Lutz 6-5/230 DS SO
53 Kendall Briscoe 6-1/281 DT SR
54 Evan Jacobsen 6-1/246 DS FR
55 Tray Hardaway 5-11/212 LB SR
56 Mike Cannon 6-4/299 OG JR
56 Julion Conley 6-0/219 LB SO
57 Mark Hunter 6-1/238 DL FR
58 Carmen Messina 6-2/222 LB SO
59 Seth Johannemann 6-3/232 DE JR
60 Jake Carr 6-3/248 DE FR
61 Calvin McDowney 6-4/340 OG FR
63 Dillon Farrell 6-5/272 OL FR
66 Joshua Taufalele 6-2/313 OG SR
67 Mat McBain 6-4/267 DL FR
68 J.V. Mason 6-5/287 OT FR
69 Erik Cook 6-6/318 C SR
70 Ben Contreras 6-2/294 C SR
71 Darryl Johnson 6-4/313 OT FR
72 Bryan Wightman 6-6/326 OT SO
73 Karlin Givens 6-4/299 OG JR
74 Byron Bell 6-5/330 OT SO
75 Jon Washington 6-5/298 OT SO
76 Zayn Bin-Bilal 6-6/326 OT JR
77 Maurice Mears 6-3/304 OT JR
78 Ivan Hernandez 6-6/296 OT SR
79 Mike Muñiz 6-3/290 C SO
80 Jonathan Mader 6-5/223 TE FR
82 Nick Wilhelm 5-11/188 WR JR
84 Ty Kirk 6-1/181 WR FR
85 Quintell Solomon 6-1/170 WR FR
88 Johnathan Rainey 6-2/242 DE SO
89 Carmeiris Stewart 6-3/209 WR FR
90 Jacori Greer 6-3/240 DL FR
91 Brett Kennedy 6-3/260 DT SO
92 Reggie Ellis 6-2/285 DT FR
93 Peter Gardner 6-4/289 DT JR
94 Ahraya Crespin 6-2/259 DT FR
96 Frankie Solomon 5-10/185 S SR
97 Lucas Reed 6-6/215 TE FR
98 DeAndre Davis 6-2/269 DE SR
Nelson Musselman 6-0/191 WR FR
Brendan Murphy 6-3/260 OG FR
Andrew Banks 6-0/200 RB JR
Gordon Rowe 6-0/171 K FR
Alex Bustos 6-0/199 CB JR
Gilbert Guzman 6-7/230 TE FR
Jarred Border 6-0/170 WR FR
T.J. Tahti 5-9/198 P FR
Steve Siciliano 6-2/235 TE SO
Andrew Aho 6-3/215 TE FR
Matt Raymer 5-9/180 S FR
James Montgomery 6-1/222 LB FR
Thomas Rodriguez 6-0/240 DS FR
Patrick Jaquess 6-1/190 FB FR
Gus Bowe 5-9/185 RB FR
Ryan Henderson 6-0/225 LB JR
Garrett Hentrup 5-9/210 K SO
Brian Hill 6-0/203 S JR
Daniel Mena 6-1/315 DT FR
Christian Johnson 5-10/216 DS FR

Locksley Says He’s Ready

from PAGE 3

before their fruits of labor

show success on the field.
“In the grand scheme of
things, I don’t know if this is a
three- or four-year window,”
Locksley says of the UNM
job. “There are some things
in place here that may enable
us to do it a little quicker. The
thing for us is to continue to
educate our fans of the pro-
cess of developing a lifetime
of success, not just one or two
been quite a few surprises —
obviously, one really big one.”
Kia says people here have
yet to see the total Locksley
package. He’s funny, a practi-
UNM LOBOS
cal joker at home. He has a
strong religious faith and is
genuine.
Kia recalls a night the two
were at Walgreens during
their third or fourth year of
marriage.
“We’re in line,” she says,
“when we both look down
the aisle and see this little

years.”
Locksley’s first offseason
has been educational for him,
to say the least.
He’s luried blue-chip
BRANCH
kid, probably 10 or 11 years
old, grabbing one of those
king-size Snickers bars and
secretly — or so he thought —
tucked it away in his shirt.

recruits on unofficial visits to
UNM. But he’s also had a few
players run afoul of the law.
Locksley, himself, is
the defendant of an Equal
Employment Opportunity
Commission age-discrimina-
tion complaint filed by a for-
mer administrative assistant.
“I’ve tried to prepare myself
for this opportunity,” Lock-
sley says, “ but there’s still
LAW FIRM
“Mike walked down the
aisle, gave the kid a couple of
dollars and said, ‘You don’t
want to mess up. Do the right
thing. Here’s money; go ahead
and pay for that.’ We didn’t
know who this kid was.”
Locksley seemingly has
made the right choice his
entire life — which could
Teams you can count on!
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program.
 September 2009
There will be a few changes for
UNM home football games in
2009. Most of the changes are
for the benefit of the fans and
the environment. The result of
the ongoing renovations to the
Pit precipitated these changes.
Parking/Traffic Flow
■ To encourage fans to ride
together, there will a parking
charge of $5 per car; however,
it’s free to vehicles with four
or more passengers. Close to
1,000 parking spots have been
lost because of construction).
■ Traffic-flow patterns will be
more structured before and after
games, providing easier and
quicker access.
■ Additional security will be in the
parking lots to ensure organiza-
tion and safety.
■ Because of the premium being
placed on individual parking
places, fans will not be able to
block off or save multiple park-
ing spaces for other vehicles …
however, fans can purchase an
extra pass for a tent, grill, etc.
■ The RailRunner will have spe-
cial gameday options and ABQ
Ride will continue to provide
shuttle service from Lot T.
“With the Pit construction, we
are losing a significant percent-
age of parking spaces, so effec-
tive use of the remaining spaces
LOBO FOOTBALL
becomes
very
impor-
tant,”
said UNM
athletics
director Paul Krebs. “The rev-
enue we generate from parking
will be used to enhance the light-
ing and condition of the parking
lots.
University Stadium
Guidelines
Gates at University Stadium
open 1½ hours before the
scheduled game time. Tailgate
lots open six hours prior to the
start time of games. For secu-
rity reasons, once you exit the
stadium you may not re-enter. In
order to ensure adequate seat-
ing, everyone must have a ticket
for admission into University Sta-
dium. Please arrive early!
Fans are encouraged to bring
ONLY necessary items to football
games at University Stadium.
All Athletic Venues
List of Prohibited
Items
The following items will not be
allowed into any UNM Athletic
Department Venue:
■ Food, water or beverages of
any kind
■ Cans, bottles, alcohol, baby
FAN GUIDE
seats, balloons, beach balls,
coolers, explosives, fireworks,
folding chairs, illegal drugs, laser
pointers, artificial noisemakers
such as horns, drums, bells,
whistles, etc. per Mountain West
Conference rules. Pets (except
service animals assisting those
with disabilities), weapons of any
kind, any other item that in the
judgment of game management
staff poses a safety hazard or
detracts from the ability of oth-
ers to enjoy the event. Prohibited
items must be returned to the
owner’s vehicle or discarded.
Any unlawful items are subject to
confiscation, and the person in
possession of such items is sub-
ject to ejection from the stadium
and/or arrest.
Gates
University stadium opens its
gates 1½ hours before kickoff.
Tailgate lots open six hours
11
before kickoff. Group Tickets
Contact the ticket office at
Season or Single (505) 925-5626 for group ticket
Game Tickets information.
Season tickets are available
through Sept. 18 at the Lobo Student Tickets
Ticket Office at 1155 University, Tickets are free for all UNM
located at the northwest corner students enrolled in at least six
of University and César Chávez, hours. UNM students will be
and online at www.unmtickets. able to pick up student tickets
com. Ticket office hours are before the game and also be
8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday able to enter at any gate. Log on
through Friday. Individual game to www.golobos.com for more
tickets are available: information.
■ Online at unmtickets.com
■ By calling 925-5858 or toll-free
at 1-800-955-HOWL
University
■ At the Lobo Ticket Office
Stadium Policy
■ At the UNM Bookstore & Information
■ At all Albertsons Albuquerque
locations Bag Policy/Security
■ On game day six hours before Bags of reasonable size (as
kickoff at the northeast cor- determined by event staff) will
ner ticket office of University be allowed into the stadium, but
Stadium. all bags will be searched.
For more information call the
ticket office at (505) 925-5626. Banners/Signs
Banners and signs are allowed
Will Call inside University Stadium pro-
Located at the northeast corner vided they are of reasonable size
of the stadium at Gate 7 for the (as determined by event staff)
and contain no advertising,
general public, player guests,
offensive material or language.
high school coaches and visiting
teams. See LOBO FOOTBALL
on PAGE 12
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Locksley & the Lobos
a great season!
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from PAGE 11
Signs cannot obstruct the view
of other patrons during Digital
the game
cameras
or the signs will be confiscated.
Cameras
Still-frame
cameras are
permitted
inside the
stadium.
Lost Children
Parents and/or guardians with
a lost child should contact the
nearest law-enforcement officer
or event-staff member. Lost chil-
dren will be taken to the Com-
mand Post at the north end of
the stadium near Gate 5.
Re-entry
Re-entry is not permitted at
University Stadium. If you need
to re-enter, please go to the Cus-
tomer Service Tent located near
the Command Post near Gate 5.
The Customer Service represen-
tative will make the decision if
you’re able to re-enter. Emergen-
cies will be the only purpose.
Smoking
Smoking is allowed only in
designated areas
inside the stadium.
Smoking areas are
located
on the southwest
(near Gate 1) and
southeast corners (near Gate 9)
of University Stadium.
Wheelchair Seating
There are nearly 200 wheelchair
spaces in University Stadium.
They are located on the upper
west concourse level, the east
mid-concourse level and at the
north end. Wheelchair spaces on
the west side of the stadium can
be reached by the elevator just
west of the press box. Spaces
on the north side are at ground
level. Contact the ticket office at
925-5626 for tickets.
Football Tailgating &
Parking Lot Policies
■Tailgate lots open six hours
before kickoff on all game days.
Game Day
All rules and regulations are
■
subject to change. UNM police
and officials reserve the right to
enforce these policies at their
discretion.
■ The UNM Athletics Department
attempts to accentuate the
pageantry of college football by
LOBO FOOTBALL
providing a wholesome atmo-
sphere for fans of all ages. We
appreciate your cooperation and
adherence to these policies.
Please contact the UNM Athlet-
ics Department at 925-5014
for additional information and
approvals.
■ Vehicles must park consistent
with lane markings; there will be
no saving of parking spots. Park-
ing costs $5 in all lots, except
for pass lots, where a donation
is needed to secure a pass.
Lot T Shuttle
The shuttle bus from Lot T
(located at the southwest corner
of University and Lomas) runs 2
hours before kickoff and drops
off at the Jemez lot. Costs $3
per person and tickets are avail-
able the day of the game at the
Lot T (cash only accepted). The
return shuttle runs for a reason-
able amount of time after the
completion of the game.
Game Day
All lots will be a pass lot or will
cost $5 per car and/or space,
or four or more passengers per
vehicle is free, excluding RVs. All
Lots open six hours before kick-
off, although some adjustments
may be made depending on kick-
off time. There are more than
4,000 parking spaces surround-
ing University Stadium, including
108 handicapped spaces. Mobil-
ity-impaired parking spaces are
located on the west side of the
stadium. Additional spots are
located on the west side of the
Pit where a golf-cart shuttle will
pick up and drop off at Gate 2.
Handicapped Parking
Handicapped parking is located
in many lots around the stadium.
Overflow spots are located on
the West side of the Pit where a
golf-cart shuttle will pick up and
drop off at Gate 2.
Parking Cost $5
This year parking will cost $5
per vehicle, except for cars with
four or more fans inside, (this
excludes RV’s). RV parking is
$25.
Rocky Mountain RV
Overnight Lot
■ Located in the Vista Lot, just
north of the Pit.
■ Adjacent to the First Commu-
nity Bank Lobo Fan Fest.
FAN GUIDE
■ The lot opens at 5 p.m. the day ■ Adjacent Department. UNM athletics offi-
before each of UNM’s six home to the Rocky cials and security have the right
games. Mountain RV to remove any signage from the
■ All RVs must be self-contained Overnight Lot. parking lot.
and they can tow one extra vehicle. ■ Food vendors
■ A pass is required for the over- include Pizza Alcohol
night lot. Hut, Hoot- Individuals of legal drinking age
■ The pass includes access to ers, Peppers — 21 or older who have a ticket
overnight parking, security, bath- Ole Fashion to the game that day may con-
room facilities, close proximity Barbeque sume alcoholic beverages in the
to Lobo Fan Fest and one game and Ben and parking lots in accordance with
program. Jerry’s Ice University policy. Consumption
■ Call (505) 925-5014 about pur- Cream. of alcohol by minors is illegal. In
chasing a pass for the lot. ■ Hoot’s Ultimate Party Zone is addition, it is illegal to provide
■ Space permitting, RVs may still providing slides, rides, jumpers alcohol to minors.
park day of the game for $25 and a 50-foot high climbing wall ■ No glass bottles are permitted.
when the parking lots open six for kids of all ages. ■ No alcohol, outside food or
hours before kickoff. ■ MCS Satellite and DirecTV will drink may be brought into the
have a free viewing tent for fans stadium.
RV Parking to watch other college football
RV parking is $25 and is avail- games from across the country. Tailgating
able in any open lot except for ■ Live music presented by Route
hours
the Tailgate 2 Lot. Open lots are 66 Casino Hotel. Fans who are
Vista, Pueblo and Mesa. ■ Live pregame radio broadcast
tailgating must
on KKOB-AM (770) and the Lobo be inside the sta-
First Community Bank Radio Network. dium before the
Lobo Football Fan end of the first
Fest Advertising quarter. Alcoholic beverages are
■ Located in the Vista Lot, north- No advertising vehicles or signs prohibited inside the stadium.
east of the Pit. will be allowed unless approved The parking lots open six hours
■ Free admission for all fans. before kickoff.
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