Alford to New Mexico?

[Detroitdad]

I just read on the ticker that Steve Alford is close to an agreement to become coach at New Mexico. That is a very curious downward move. I can only speculate that he must think he has less job security in Iowa CIty. This may be a good hire, since it will ratchet up the level of publicity around the New Mexico program. But I am not sure that Alford is a great coach, since a number of his teams have underachieved. Still the Lobos will have succeeded in making an exciting hire that should breathe some life into that program.

On this same note Joe Scott, who started the Air Force renaisaance and then returned to Princeton, left Princeton to become head coach at Denver????? Something about new recruiting restrictions in the Ivy league. Bizarre. Surely there had to be a better job out there than Denver. It is hard to think of a less attractive opening. He must have really loved Colorado.