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Looking at Boise State's relatively brief but sparkling history, properly placed money games helped lift the program. But confidence boosters, against FCS schools, seemed to play a larger role.

Certainly it's early, but these have the feel of body bag games -- essentially UNM gets paid to be a pinata. Worse for 2011: it looks like the Lobos will have seven home games that season.

Three players recently gave verbal commitments to New Mexico State, which is noteworthy because two of those players also had offers from UNM, and the one that didn't is from Albuquerque. Before this, and since 2007, no players that had offers from UNM and NMSU opted to be Aggies.

When Alford and UNM athletics director Paul Krebs addressed the local media, disclosing the details of the deal, we learned there is a retention incentive

Our own Mike Roberts was inducted into the Albuquerque Professional Baseball Hall of Fame. For those that don't know, Mike was the play-by-play voice of the Dukes and Isotopes for a total of 20 seasons.

If we look at the Lobos 2010 schedule and predict results based on coaches' salaries, then the Lobos should be 7-5. Locksley ($760,000 per year) makes more per year, according to this website, than seven opponents -- UNLV, UTEP, NMSU, San Diego State, Colorado State, Wyoming and BYU.

just a test

I'm usually all for the underdog, but seeing numbers like this pushes me toward the side of the haves.

Ever since last Thursday, when Darington Hobson slipped into the second round of the NBA Draft, we've heard a lot of people say the former Lobo should have stayed in Albuquerque for his senior year.

I don't know if septupleheader is a word, but that's the best way to describe what we'll have this holiday weekend on ESPN Radio 101.7 The TEAM.