Notes and quotes from week two of University of New Mexico spring football practice:
A return to his Illinois roots, Josh Sternquist said, was an offer he couldn’t refuse.
Sternquist, UNM’s director of football recruiting since the spring of 2012, has accepted a job as director of player personnel for new Illinois coach Lovie Smith.
“New Mexico is a special place, and we will miss it tremendously,” Sternquist, an Illinois native, told the Journal via social media. “The opportunity to come home was one I could not pass up.”
HE’S JAJUAN MORE: Lobos coach Bob Davie said Friday he was perfectly serious when, earlier this spring, he said he wouldn’t hesitate to throw redshirt sophomore quarterback JaJuan Lawson into a mix that already includes junior Lamar Jordan and senior Austin Apodaca.