Eddie Nuñez has an agreement to stick around for a while as the athletic director at the University of New Mexico.
And while the timing of recent rumors of his being a candidate to fill the same position at the University of Miami seemed convenient for one seeking a new deal with UNM, it turns out Nuñez and UNM President Garnett Stokes had already signed a new contract on Nov. 4 – long before the Miami rumors surfaced – to keep him overseeing Lobo athletics through June 2025.
According to Nuñez’s new contract obtained earlier this week by the Journal – one UNM hadn’t planned to announce publicly until it had an opportunity to update its Board of Regents members at a regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday – Nuñez now will be paid $420,000 per year ($360,000 in base salary and $60,000 in other compensation, not including potential bonuses) through June 30, 2025.