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New Mexico State coach Jerry Kill blasts New Mexico AD after bowl loss

New Mexico State’s Jerry Kill was fuming at New Mexico AD Eddie Nunez

To keep it safe and not salty, New Mexico State coach Jerry Kill was, er, ticked off after his Aggies lost to Fresno State on Saturday in the New Mexico Bowl.

It had nothing to do with the 37-10 defeat. It had everything to do with the treatment his team received from AD Eddie Nunez of rival New Mexico and its facilities.

(Some NSFW language was used by Kill)

What set Kill off was the Lobos’ initial refusal to allow NMSU to use their indoor facilities while preparing for the bowl game despite it snowing in Albuquerque.

Per ESPN.com:

Kill told ESPN on Saturday night that New Mexico State would have had to practice at a local high school field if New Mexico Bowl executive director Jeff Siembieda had not intervened and pushed for the use of New Mexico’s facility. When NMSU showed up Thursday, as snow fell in the Albuquerque area, four police officers were at the New Mexico facility to monitor the Aggies’ practice.

“The police officers kind of laughed. They said, ‘There’s a lot of stuff going on in Albuquerque, I don’t know why we’re here watching the logo,'” Kill said. “It’s a great bowl game, but here’s the deal: They were going to make us practice on a high school field and let Fresno practice in the indoor, and that particular day, it snowed. But Jeff busted his butt and had to argue with their people to get us on the thing.”

Kill also mentioned a September incident involving his star Diego Pavia. The QB appeared in a video urinating on the New Mexico logo on the school’s indoor practice field.

“I hope the AD here gets the same damn discipline with the people around this state that Diego got, because he deserves it,” Kill said. “It don’t bother me a damn bit. When he don’t let us … practice in the indoor facility, when he don’t want us to do this and do that, that’s chickens—. I don’t care, that’s my opinion, if I get in trouble, I don’t give a s—, either. Because I can go down to Mexico tomorrow, drink margaritas and let you all enjoy your life, because I’ll be enjoying mine. But I’ve got class. I’ve had class my whole life.”

New Mexico State coach Jerry Kill got a tattoo to celebrate Aggies’ Quick Lane Bowl victory

Kill promised his team he would get his first tattoo if they won, and he’s a man of his word.

After a massively successful first season in Las Cruces, New Mexico State head football coach Jerry Kill will carry a permanent reminder of his 2022 team.

The first-year coach apparently promised his team prior to its appearance in the Quick Lane Bowl that if it won, he would get a tattoo to commemorate the win. The Aggies held up their end of the bargain, beating Bowling Green 24-19 to win just their second bowl game since 1960 and finish the season at 7-6.

Kill kept his word, and on Sunday, he received a tattoo — his first — on his upper right arm to commemorate NMSU’s victory in Detroit.

Bowl games may be seeing diminishing interest across the country, but it’s all a matter of perspective. New Mexico State’s Quick Lane Bowl appearance was just its second time making the postseason in the last 62 years.

The Aggies ended their lengthy bowl appearance drought in 2017 with a win over Utah State in the Arizona Bowl, but aside from that, they’ve spent most of the last decade in purgatory. A leftover from the former WAC, NMSU is now an independent in football after spending four seasons in the Sun Belt, which cast it into the wilderness after 2017.

The Aggies hired Kill this past offseason after his stint as the interim coach at TCU. The 61-year-old was formerly the head coach at Minnesota from 2011-15, where he achieved moderate success but ultimately stepped down for health reasons.

Now, with NMSU set to join the new-look Conference USA in 2023, things are looking up for the newly inked Kill and this program.

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College football fans absolutely loved New Mexico State coach Jerry Kill’s custom serape

New Mexico State’s Jerry Kill is easily the best dressed coach of bowl season so far.

New Mexico State head coach Jerry Kill might win the best-dressed award for the 2022 college football bowl season.

Kill’s Aggies were set to take on Bowling Green in the Quick Lane Bowl, one of those bowl games that certainly exists.

However, the New Mexico State coach wasn’t about to get upstaged by anyone else in the fashion game on Monday. He exited his team’s bus confidently wearing an Aggies serape for the ages while drinking a concoction from Starbucks.

If serape sales in Las Cruces weren’t already high, they’re about to skyrocket after Kill rocked one at the Quick Lane Bowl. Christmas might be over, but everybody’s got a birthday around the corner, right?

Wow, now that is a serape. Kill looked warm, but he also looked ready to take on the whole world.

 

Oklahoma transfer quarterback Chandler Morris wows Big 12 coaches in TCU debut

Chandler Morris led TCU’s upset win over Baylor with a big performance. Coaches around the Big 12 reacted to the Oklahoma transfer’s debut.

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In his first collegiate start, TCU quarterback Chandler Morris provided a jumpstart to a program in need of some positive juice.

Morris led the way in the Horned Frogs’ 30-28 Saturday upset of Baylor. The Highland Park, Texas product completed 29-of-41 passes against the Bears and racked up 461 passing yards with a pair of touchdown passes.

As was the case at Oklahoma, Morris also demonstrated his dual-threat capabilities by rushing for 70 yards on 11 carries with a 12-yard scoring scamper sprinkled in.

Oklahoma head football coach Lincoln Riley said during the Big 12 teleconference call that he spoke with Morris and his family after the game to congratulate them. With the Sooners on a bye week, he caught part of the action himself as well.

“I did. I got to see some of it. Yeah, he played well. It was awesome to see him play so well. I know he’s been waiting on his opportunity and got an opportunity and obviously rose to the occasion. Moved around, made some big throws. It was good,” Riley said.

“It was just really cool to see him do well. We’ve got a number of guys that have ended up in other spots and we’ve got a number of guys that are doing very well at a lot of places with obviously Chandler, AK, Mordecai. Always root for those guys. Really happy to see Chandler in such a big game with all that’s going on there and playing a really good Baylor team, I was happy to see him play very well.”

TCU interim head coach Jerry Kill marveled at Morris’ debut.

“It was one of those things with Chandler where you don’t get a chance to see something like that very often in a young man’s first start the way he played. It probably goes back to being raised by his daddy and so forth, but he carried us in the game. There’s no doubt about it. We don’t win the game without what he does,” Kill said.

Kill said he and his staff knew Baylor would be difficult to run the football against and that Morris’ legs gave his offense a different dimension to game plan around.

“We knew we were going to have to do some things different. Similar to what we tried to do at Oklahoma and got beat. We tried to mix it up as much as possible, but with his speed he can move around, too, so he was an added run guy that we needed because we only had one running back,” Kill said.

Baylor head football coach Dave Aranda saw firsthand what makes Morris difficult to defend. Morris’ ability to negate a pass rush with his feet was on display and that’s been one of the issues that’s plagued the Bears.

“I think he had a really good game, you know, similar to some of the things that has been happening against us going back to Texas State really. I think you can go throughout kind of our season so far and pull examples. We talked about some of this after last week as well. These are things that while we have improved some, clearly not enough,” Aranda said.

Next up for Morris and TCU is a trip to Oklahoma State. While he hadn’t watched the tape yet as of Monday morning, Oklahoma State head football coach Mike Gundy took notice of what Morris accomplished against Baylor.

“I’m still working on the other side of the ball. I normally don’t get to that until later in the afternoon on Monday. I saw his statistics where I think he threw for 470 and rushed for 70, so obviously they’ve found a quarterback they like that’s had a tremendous amount of success and must’ve played very, very well,” Gundy said.

Oklahoma and Riley’s impressive track record on quarterback evaluations appears like it’s continuing after Morris’ first starting performance is in the books.

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