♦ HERE’S HOPING the influx of players and personnel for Lobo football and women’s basketball is not “just promising” but reality when the time comes.

— MHD

♦ MEMO TO RAY Birmingham: Make sure when you leave that your on top. Lobo fan and boosters expectations far exceed the reality of their mid-major conference, local recruiting talent, academic and geographical limitations for outside recruits. Fan and boosters will eat you alive. Sincerely,

— “Rocky Long, Don Flanagan, Dennis Franchione, and Richie McKay”

♦ IT’S ALL ABOUT money, folks….and it is certainly NOT stupid for any college (e.g., Boise State) to move to a conference that potentially offers (a) more cash for TV rights and (b) AQ status in the BCS. I do agree that it would be foolish for the MWC to allow Boise’s “other” sports to remain in the conference…nothing to gain there. Let them go to the Big West.

— Not-a-Bronco-fan, ABQ

♦ SO ROGER CLEMENS was acquitted. No surprise here. How could anyone in Congress tell if he was lying in the first place?

— ese
— This article appeared on page D2 of the Albuquerque Journal