Albuquerque, N.M. • New Mexico has named former Lobos player and assistant coach Danny Gonzales as head football coach.
UNM athletic director Eddie Nunez made the announcement Tuesday night. Contract terms weren’t immediately released.
Gonzales will be formally introduced as the Lobos’ 32nd football coach at a news conference Wednesday.
The 43-year-old Gonzales has been Herm Edwards’ defensive coordinator for the past two seasons at Arizona State. He was promoted to assistant head coach before this season began.
He started his coaching career at UNM as a defensive graduate assistant from 1999-2002.
He was the program’s video coordinator from 2003-05 and worked with the safeties, punters, kickers and deep snappers from 2005-08.