Each Tuesday during the college football season, provided there’s a game scheduled the following Saturday, the University of New Mexico head coach meets with the news media on the UNM South Campus.
Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, was a stunning and tragic exception.
The Lobos were scheduled to play their downstate rival, the New Mexico State Aggies, in Albuquerque the following Saturday, Sept. 15. But on that Tuesday morning, Muslim terrorists flew passenger planes into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center in New York, another into the Pentagon in Washington, and hijacked another that crashed in Pennsylvania.