Really? I mean, REALLY?

So UNM wants to raise the bar on student admissions. Really? It looks to me like they should be raising the bar on employee admissions: their hiring practices and human resource policies. Heck, it's not the students who are in local headlines for allegedly hitting someone in the face or creating environments that result in legal action for sexual harassment and age discrimination.

Maybe the ethics curriculum needs strengthening, but never fear, math is alive and well on the UNM campus: there's a common denominator in the two recent UNM headlines in the Albuquerque Journal - Coach Locksley. He is the staffer that supposedly communicated to his administrative assistant that she wasn't young enough to attract new recruits. And he allegedly hit his assistant coach in the face. Nice guy. Where was the bar when they brought him on board - on the floor?

If one my sons was on the team, without even considering the losing season the coach is spearheading - I would not want him to be near Coach Locksley. He is not the role model I would want any of my sons working his tail off for. In any case, the lessons he is teaching by his example don't belong on campus or on the field.

Maybe UNM really does want to raise the bar for student admissions, but why make the effort when funds, reputation and honor are being lost on the field by someone who was hired to lead the UNM football players.

And speaking of bars, in my opinion Locksley should be barred; it could only help raise the bar for everyone else.