Wright: Jimmys, Joes and first-year woes for UNM football

Apr. 20—Darrell Royal, the legendary University of Texas football coach, is widely credited with the first utterance of the following — echoed throughout the decades by scores if not hundreds of his fellow coaches: "It's not the X's and O's; it's the Jimmys and Joes." The New Mexico Lobos do have a Jimmy, or at least a James (Bailey, a Texas A&M transfer offensive lineman). They do have a Joe: ...