New NMSU Rodeo Coach

 

Dr. Donald Conner announced yesterday that Brice Baggarley has accepted the offer to be the next rodeo coach at NMSU. He will start on May 3.

Brice competed on the NMSU rodeo team and from August of 2013 till May of 2015 was the assistant rodeo coach under Jim Dewey Brown.

Welcome aboard Brice! We all look forward to working with you and helping any way we can.

I must say that NMSU must come up with a better, more flexible procedure for hiring a rodeo coach. When Jim Dewey Brown left, the team was left without a coach for the fall semester. Logan Corbett's resignation was affective on May 1, 2020. Here we are a full year later before a new coach takes over. This selection was complicated by some legislative language and COVID-19, but that is no excuse for taking 12 months to fill this position. The Athletic Department has special provisions in the personnel code for hiring coaches and ACES deserves the same. I guarantee you if this had been a basketball coach, the long delay would not have occurred. The system may be fine for hiring a professor or regular staff, but does not give us the tools and options needed to hire a rodeo coach. The students and their parents deserve better.