Danny Gonzales’ friendship with Blake Anderson goes back almost a quarter century, to when Anderson was an assistant football coach at New Mexico under Rocky Long and Gonzales was a UNM graduate assistant.
Anderson left UNM in 2001, and now is the second-year head coach at Utah State. Gonzales is in his third year as the head coach at UNM. The two schools are Mountain West Conference rivals, and they’ll face each other on Saturday in Logan, Utah (1:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network (770 AM/96.3 FM).
Rivals though they are, the two men’s friendship remains as strong as ever.