Lobo week on the "Mountain" network

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They'll show various recent football, basketball and even baseball wins this week. This is cable 276 in Albuquerque.

I know a few of the games being showed are the last two last-second wins over Colorado State, last year's Wyoming game, the SDSU game from '08 (the 70-7 thrashing) and I think the '07 NMSU game. Here's hoping they can also find the '05 UNM-Mizzou game, in which McKamey and Baskett tore up the Tigers.

It should be fun to see a competent Lobo football team again (pre-Locksley games), if nothing else. I could even go for some of the Franchione games of the 90's, especially the '97 season.

[nmsooner80]

By the way, were those "Kanktrell" Lobo teams on the verge of making the Lobos a true "statewide" team? Of course, there's not much D-1 talent in the northwestern part of the state, but UNM was getting guys from the Cruces area also, back then.

It's almost sad to me that when UNM was at least decent that they still didn't draw like they should have. Maybe the longer driving distances than what I saw in Oklahoma has something to do with it, but I guarantee that Sooner home games will include grouips on tour buses from all over the state. Unfortunately, the "cool people" in Albuquerque would still rather buy NFL gear (and often of bad, non-regional teams like Oakland) than get behind the local team, that also has local kids.

Heck, even after McKamey and Co. finished up, there were still guys here like Rodney Ferguson, Erik Cook, all those LaCueva guys, etc. But even that's not enough in a town with NFL front-runners, I guess.