New Mexico football coach Mike Locksley told the media of his rather measured approach to this week’s game.

 (UNM coach seems to know all about blowing loads)

“It’s your job as a coach to manage the rivalry throughout the course of the week so that it’s not played in the paper, so you don’t shoot your load too early because you want to have your guys peaking right at kickoff time.” (11:45 into video - right sidebar of site)

Yea, I got a chuckle out of that one. But the quip isn’t the best part of the clip.

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As Coach Tony D’Amato might say, recruiting is a game of inches, and any advantage a coach can legally grab is one he’ll claw for like a crack addict who sees a stray rock behind the refrigerator. But that word - legally - regularly confounds the majority of coaches, who are usually no match for the NCAA’s draconian set of rules.

(”And that’s my vision for the football program this year. Say, have you seen my new harem of sexually eager young ladies with enhanced breasts? Err, I mean, ‘typists.’”)

You’d think they could do better than Mike Locksley, the incoming head coach of the New Mexico Lobos. While he doesn’t appear to have violated any NCAA rules, that’s only because his violatin’ sights were (allegedly) set much, much higher. Mr. Locksley, meet Mr. Equal Opportunity Employment Lawsuit.

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