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Geoff Grammer
@GeoffGrammer
I'm a dad (#Girldad x2). And in my spare time I work for @ABQJournal, covering such things as college basketball (mostly the UNM Lobos) and racing Taco mascots.
Nov 19, 2022 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
THREAD (1/x)

Here's what I know, or can report/confirm, about the homicide overnight at UNM, the NMSU player's involvement, police updates, etc. ...

(2/x) From various police sources now...

Albuquerque Police Department responded to a request for assistance from UNM PD at 3 a.m. ...

One person (19 years old) was shot and killed, pronounced dead at the scene.

One person (21yo) was also shot, taken to hospital...
Feb 27, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
(Thread) UNM AD @EddieNunezAD starts his presser on the change in Lobo hoops coach Paul Weir... (2/x) Paul Weir's contract calls for $700,000 remaining in a buyout ($350K for next two years)...

UNM and Weir agreed on $490,000 ($245,000 paid next two years) ... UNM will also pay $100K owed nxt two years to NMSU as part of Weir's past buyout w/ Aggies. ...
Nov 10, 2020 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
THREAD (1/x):

The NMSU Board of Regents meeting has started. Chancellor Dan Arvizu is starting things.

He is asking the Regents to let NMSU play basketball, in some fashion (that's what the meeting is about) despite @GovMLG's Public Health Order currently prohibiting it. ... @GovMLG (2/x) NMSU President John Floros saying from the start of the pandemic, the goal has been to create an environment for campus that was safer than the community around the campus. He feels they have done that, and in athletics, the testing number show that. ...
Aug 25, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
(Thread 1/x): Lawsuit presser of former UNM football player Nahje Flowers' family and attorneys, including Ben @AttorneyCrump, against UNM and NCAA. Flowers committed suicide in 2019. Lawsuit claims he was forced to play by ex-coach Bob Davie after psychiatrist advised against it @AttorneyCrump (2/x) Attorney Bob Hilliard: Flowers was seeing a psychiatrist who advised he not play football... CTE and brain injury issues at play... Nahje actually went to a doctor who advised him not to play...
May 15, 2018 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
So, about that Paul Weir press conference. Here's a thread...
• Troy Simons transferring closer to daughter in Pittsburgh will happen, but hasn't yet...
• As of today, none of UNM's transfers (Simons, Simmons, McNeal, MacDougall) have found new teams... Weir presser cont:
• The plan as of today is entire fulltime staff remains, but none have finalized contracts.

I'll say (Paul didn't say this) mid-May and no new coaching contracts is very weird, and I know they and their families all want it done. Not sure why it's not done.