It’s not often that opposing coaches communicate with each other during game week, but University of New Mexico’s Danny Gonzales and Utah State’s Blake Anderson have been friends for over 20 years.
This past Sunday night, they were trading texts and joking with each other.
“Blake said, ‘Can you cut us a break and not blitz?’ ” Gonzales said. “And, I said,
‘Only if you don’t do all that voodoo stuff you do on offense.’ We were just having fun.”
But Gonzales and Anderson both know it will be serious on Friday when the Lobos (3-8, 1-6 Mountain West) play host to the Aggies (8-3, 5-2), who are 16½-point favorites, in New Mexico’s season finale.