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June 15, 2006

Bowling Green has chosen Purdue associate athletics director Greg Christopher to replace athletics director Paul Krebs, who just took over the AD job at UNM.
It poses interesting questions about how you choose an athletics director.
Bowling Green went with an assistant from a BCS school. New Mexico went with an AD from a mid-major school. It's sort of a wash with Krebs because he had previous experience at the grand daddy of all athletics programs, Ohio State.
But the other UNM athletics director finalists didn't have that pedigree.
Is it more important to get someone who has run an athletics department before, even if it was a small school, or someone with experience rolling with the big boys in the BCS but with none of it coming in the hot seat?

Posted by ilimon at 10:37 AM |

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Posted by: Roy Shears | June 15, 2006 12:39 PM

Iliana, thanks for providing a different slant on most subjects. I enjoy you insight and that is the purpose of this note.
Today’s article in the Sports section,regarding the AC issues with the weight room, seems to have missed a bit. While it was interesting to find out there was an issue and it is now being solved 13 years later begs for more information. What the h_ll happened? Who is responsible for this blunder? Etc.,etc.????
I feel you might be able to look at it from investigative reporters stand point. Please give some thought to a follow up on this article?

Thanks,
Old Lobo

Posted by: Iliana Limon | June 15, 2006 01:17 PM

You bring up a good point that should have been included in my story.
Rocky's best guess was that there was a rush to put up the Tow Diehm complex as quickly as possible on a tight budget. They made a bad decision with the swamp coolers, but this was lightyears ahead of what University of New Mexico athletics, especially football, ever had in terms of faciltiies. It was an oversight that should have been corrected during the stadium expansion project when the corporate pavilion and much of the stadium was spruced up, but it never happened.
This isn't an usual story in the Mountain West Conference. Wyoming may already have an indoor practice facility, but its press box and corporate suites are not protected from the weather. During the imfamous ice storm a few years back, wind whipped through there and made overcoats mandatory for anyone watching the game "indoors."

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