SPORTS SPEAK UP!

FOR THE PAST 4 years Rob Doughty and the Regents have rubber stamped the athletics department budget leading to a ($7.5 million) deficit. Now in front of a new president (for show), Doughty demands an accounting. Why weren’t the Regents demanding an accounting 3, 4, 5, years ago? … The question new UNM President Stokes should be asking is how the Regents could have been OK with annually approving budgets that were exceeding projected income. — Detnalp

While the sentiment remains, to be clear, the Regents have not approved an athletics budget that didn’t project to balance. Athletics has come up short on the approved projections 9 of the past 11 years. — Journal

AS A FORMER student of UNM and seeing the tragedy that is the financial state of UNM, it saddens me greatly. … Myself and many others want to join the athletic department and would like our school loans to be erased as well. — The loan officer

GREAT PICTURE on the (Friday) sports page. Nunn holding ball, Okwonkwo over Nunn’s back holding Jaisa. Referee Krommenhoek blows whistle, declares “held ball,” possession TCU! That was a bad call. — MAL, Albuquerque

UNM AD NUÑEZ reminds me of Wimpy in the old Popeye cartoons. His favorite line was “I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today”. P.S.: $600,000 for a new locker room? My house cost me $200,000. — PABCO

NEWS ALERT! Loyola of Chicago hoops program under NCAA investigation for using a performance-enhancing nun. — Richard of Los Ranchos

AS A FORMER resident of Loyola’s Chicago neighborhood, East Rogers Park, I’ve jumped on the bandwagon. — WRT

COACH BRADBURY: I hope you will teach the future girls teams these basic fundamentals: follow your shot, how to make layups, and how to pass the ball to a teammate (and not an opponent) by using a bounce pass. — jpb

NCAA REGULATIONS are very strict about coaching numbers and practice hours. Is Sister Jean Schmidt of Loyola of Chicago, the men’s basketball team faculty advisor, violating NCAA rules by “scouting opponents”? Is she an extra coach? — Larry the VOL