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It only took one game for calls for Mike Locksley’s job to surface.

The embattled second-year coach at New Mexico, whose tenure has been wrought with off-field incidents and a 1-11 record in his first season, lost his season opener last Saturday, 72-0, to Oregon. It was the Lobos’ worst defeat since 1991, and it stirred fans to say enough is enough.

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

After settling lawsuits, making peace with a tough first year and adding Tony Dungy as a mentor, Locksley had renewed confidence that this season wasn’t going to be as bad as his first. And that his team, which actually got better as last season progressed and never seemed to quit on its coach, would pull it together and begin laying a foundation that would bring New Mexico football back to the level it was earlier in the decade when it was going to bowl games every year.

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