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.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... UNM’s head football coach Danny Gonzales watches as his team goes through the first day of spring football practice. Tuesday. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal) University of New Mexico offensive lineman Jer’Marques Bailey, all 6 feet, 6 inches and 350 pounds of him, settled in to catch a punt on Tuesday morning at the Lobos’ football practice field. If Bailey caught it on the first attempt, ...

He was Burston with talent. Had Cameron Burston brought those talents to the University of New Mexico as originally planned, and not to Tarleton State University, what might have happened? Normally, I try to stay away from what-ifs. This one, though, caught my fancy this week. Burston, I wrote in April 2017, just might be the guy University of New Mexico football had never had under then-head coach Bob Davie – hadn’t had, truly, since Graham Leigh in the late 1990s: a quarterback who could pass or run with equal effectiveness. .................................................................

Jordan Salkin, University of New Mexico's quarterbacks coach who was hired a year ago, ...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Isaiah Chavez, the walk-on fifth-string true freshman quarterback out of Rio Rancho High School who guided the University of New Mexico to two straight wins to end the season, said the past two weeks have been a dream come true. Some noteworthy honors came on Monday to add to that dream. Chavez, believed to be the first walk-on true freshman to start at quarterback in UNM program history, was named...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Most wouldn’t have given the University of New Mexico a chance against Fresno State in a shootout with the Lobos being led by a fifth-string walk-on true freshman quarterback making his first start. Turns out that QB, Isaiah Chavez from Rio Rancho High School, was the perfect man for the job, celebrations included. Chavez, known for shooting off his finger guns while celebrating, ran for 95 yards...