Kill blasts New Mexico advertisement over practice field tiff

• Adam Rittenberg, ESPN Senior Citizen WriterDec 17, 2023, 12:05 AM ET

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coach Jerry Eliminate slammed New Mexico athletic director Eddie Nunez after Saturday’s Isleta New Mexico Bowl, saying Nunez tried to reject NMSU access to practice centers in retaliation for an occurrence earlier this year.Kill, whose team lost to Fresno State 37-10 at New Mexico’s University Arena in Albuquerque, ended his press conference by stating New Mexico State had a great bowl experience however dealt with “all kinds of things”with its efforts to practice at New Mexico, where the occasion has actually been played since 2006. A New Mexico spokesperson told ESPN that New Mexico State utilized New Mexico’s indoor center on every day it wanted to practice, as contracted through the bowl game.Kill informed ESPN on Saturday night that New Mexico State would have needed to practice at a local high school field if New Mexico Bowl executive director Jeff Siembieda had not stepped in and pushed for making use of New Mexico’s facility. When NMSU showed up Thursday, as snow fell in the Albuquerque location, 4 law enforcement officer were at the New Mexico center to monitor the Aggies ‘practice. “The law enforcement officer sort of chuckled. They stated,’There’s a great deal of stuff going on in Albuquerque, I do not understand why we’re here seeing the logo design,'”Eliminate said.”It’s an excellent championship game, however here’s the deal: They were going to make us practice on a high school field and let Fresno practice in the indoor, and that specific day, it snowed. However Jeff busted his butt and needed to argue with their individuals to get us on the important things.”Eliminate added that no authorities existed when New Mexico State practiced in the facility Friday.Kill stated Nunez had “much better be disciplined by this state “for how he presumably dealt with NMSU. Kill also referenced an incident including New Mexico State quarterback Diego Pavia, who appeared in a video urinating on the New Mexico logo on the school’s indoor practice field. The video emerged in September, quickly after New Mexico State’s win at New Mexico. Kill said Saturday that the Pavia incident happened throughout the summertime which he didn’t discover it up until after his team beat New Mexico, and instantly took action when he knew.Pavia was not permitted to do interviews for the majority of the season and likewise performed social work. In an interview last month with KTSM, Pavia said sorry to the team for the interruption and said he gained from the mistake.

Pavia began throughout the season at quarterback for the Aggies.”I hope the advertisement here gets the exact same damn discipline with the people around this state that Diego got, since he deserves it, “Eliminate stated.” It do not bother me a damn bit. When he do not let us … practice in the indoor facility, when he don’t want us

to do this and do that, that’s chickens–. I do not care, that’s my viewpoint, if I get in problem, I don’t give a s–, either. Because I can go down to Mexico tomorrow, drink margaritas and let you all enjoy your life, due to the fact that I’ll be delighting in mine. But I’ve got class. I have actually had class my entire life.”Kill added that he had actually “never ever been treated like that.”In a declaration following the news conference, the New Mexico Bowl said it”deals with both getting involved organizations to ensure equal access to training and practice centers. The University of New Mexico

has actually been thoughtful hosts of this game for the past 18 years and this year’s game was no exception. Understanding the nature of the both in-state and in-conference competitions there is always a sense of ensuring that all parties appreciate each other’s home, which in this case was upheld by both organizations. “Eliminate has led New Mexico State to championship game in each of his very first two seasons at the school, and the Aggies reached the Conference U.S.A. national championship this fall.