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New coach, fresh start, new traditions.
The Bob Davie football program at the University of New Mexico is under way. Spring practice began this week, and one change was evident immediately. A pillar in the football locker room where for the past seven years former players have signed their names — sometimes with comments — has a fresh coat of paint. That’s because Coach Davie took exception to some of the comments he said were obscene and amounted to graffiti. This isn’t the kind of face he wants for the Lobo program he is building. In fact, he was embarrassed when he brought recruits through the locker room. While some former players are upset, they should have thought before they scrawled about the message they wanted attached to their names and to the program. If they want to join the new Davie tradition, they can re-sign the pillar sans obscenities during a May 17-18 golf tournament. Keeping up traditions is important, but those traditions should be something to be proud of, not something that causes embarrassment. While it may be a small thing in the overall game plan to put the Lobos back on the college football map, Davie’s attention to detail and commitment to raising the bar for Lobo conduct is commendable. Former players who had nothing better to offer than obscenities and graffiti should just get over it. This editorial first appeared in the Albuquerque Journal. It was written by members of the editorial board and is unsigned as it represents the opinion of the newspaper rather than the writers.
