“At first after looking at the playbook I thought: this guy is kind of crazy,” Rowaiye said. Rowaiye continues to learn Long’s 3-3-5 scheme while competing for playing time. Rowaiye wrote about Long, who played quarterback at UNM, where he began his coaching career and went on to become the winningest coach in the Mountain West Conference and in UNM history. For his final project in English he said he was assigned to write a biography about a role model and someone who inspires him. Rowaiye was an early high school graduate and enrolled at UNM last spring. “He’s really down to earth,” Rowaiye said. Perhaps it’s easier, too, to replay some of the details that brought Long back to his alma mater after leaving his head coaching job at San Diego State in 2020.īefore Gonzales became head coach of the Lobos in December of 2019, he said he had already made his most important call for recruiting. Long, 72, can fix issues at a quicker rate than when he was on the sideline, he said, and that will only help UNM, which will face 16½-point favorite Boise State on Friday night at University Stadium. “I was much more relaxed in the box,” he said of his experience on Saturday, which helped UNM post its first shutout in the Danny Gonzales era, a 41-0 win over FCS Maine. Rocky Long has found a comfort zone back at the University of New Mexico, and now up in a booth in the press box for games as defensive coordinator of the Lobos. Long, a former head coach at UNM and at San Diego State, came back to Albuquerque to work on the staff of head coach Danny Gonzales. Lobos defensive coordinator Rocky Long signals to his players during an August scrimmage.
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