Billings to ENMU

[Alan1]

Eastern New Mexico has a new athletic director, with Matt Billings leaving the Pacific Northwest to join the Greyhounds: https://www.abqjournal.com/1404209/portland-to-portales-for-enmus-new-ad.html

 

[Alan1]

More on Billings move to Eastern New Mexico: https://www.sfgate.com/news/education/article/University-in-New-Mexico-to-get-new-athletics-14935599.php

 

[Pounder]

From the Albuquerque article...

When reached at his Portland office Monday, Billings said he and his wife liked the change in pace Portales would give them and a change to a location where the university was the community’s focal point.

I’ll leave aside the “unquoted quote” from the newspaper (and let’s be honest... we have a crop of lazy sports journalists regardless of location). A bit of ouch there.

 

[bigskyconf]

If you ever want to go somewhere where the university is the town's focal point, you could certainly go to Corvallis. Or Pullman. Or Cedar City (aka "Whoville").

I spent almost 20 years of my life in small Montana towns where the school was the focal point of their existence. When I moved to Portland, I was ecstatic about leaving all of it behind me. Each person's perspective, I guess.