The Lobos were riding high after this Saturday's win at Fort Collins, and both the players and coaches said they would have preferred to keep playing instead of having a bye this week. UNM coach Rocky Long did say he sees room for a lot of improvement. He said the team is making a lot of mistakes when it comes to fundamentals that have to be fixed if the Lobos expect to win any more games this season. Long's teams are undefeated after bye weeks, but the coach said streaks are made to be broken and he hoped UNM's nice bye week streak won't end this season.

The Lobos will practice Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of this week, then take the weekend off, resuming their regular practice schedule Monday of next week. UNM won't exchange tapes with TCU until Tuesday and won't begin serious game planning until Thursday at the earliest. So the Lobos will be working on those pesky fundamentals Tuesday and Wednesday.

Brett Madsen suffered a high ankle sprain during the Colorado State game, but Long said he should be fine by the TCU game following the bye week.

And here's a few amusing notes left over from Colorado State game.

Marcus Smith dyed his hair deep cherry red. I thought it might be a team pride thing, but he said he did it on a dare. No one believed he would dress up as Dennis Rodman for Halloween, complete with wacky hair, so he took the plunge. I told him he was missing a few colors, and he said he only did one to make sure he wouldn't get in trouble with the coaches. He may add a few more streaks by Halloween.

Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins is really nice, but we noticed one design flaw. The windows to the press box are tinted, which is a huge help during day games. But as soon as the sun dipped behind the press box, which happened around the start of the second quarter, we caught a lot of glare from the lights inside the press box. The view was so bad, Mike Roberts and Greg Remington called most of the game for 770-KKOB with the lights off in their radio suite.

That's all for now. Check out Monday's Tribune for more Lobo football news.

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