The official colors of the Northern New Mexico College Eagles are navy blue and orange.
So it wasn’t hard to spot former Lobo great J.R. Giddens, the head women’s basketball coach at NNMC, when the 6-foot-8 former professional basketball player would walk into the shared basketball offices wearing – over and over again – the bright cherry and silver gear of his University of New Mexico alma mater.
“You know you work for Northern New Mexico now, right?” NNMC men’s basketball coach Billy Keys, the former New Mexico State Aggies great, would bark at Giddens every time he walked in.