The Univ. of Houston has hired Univ. of New Mexico AD Eddie Nunez to be their 14th AD. He signed a five-year deal and will be formally introduced at noon on Wednesday at the TDECU Stadium Club. Nunez leaves UNM after seven years as AD. He also brings “significant Power Four experience,” serving as Deputy AD for 14 years at LSU. Nunez will take over a “cash-strapped UH athletic department” that has been without a leader since former AD Chris Pezman was fired in late June after six years. He will lead UH into their second year in the Big 12 with the “smallest operating budget among power conference schools” and one of the “most subsidized athletic departments in the nation” with nearly $200M in direct institutional support since 2018-19. Nunez was selected over Univ. of Tennessee Deputy AD Ryan Alpert (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 8/17).

This comes after Pat Hobbs resigned as AD at Rutgers on Friday after nine years in the role. Noted Rutgers observer Steve Politi wrote, “So much of this doesn’t make any sense. The weird timing. The clumsy announcement. The resignation itself, for that matter. … The press release announcing the news, meanwhile, is just four paragraphs with a glaring typo. It did not include a single laudatory quote — not from football coach Greg Schiano, not from basketball coach Steve Pikiell, not from university president Jonathan Holloway. There are departing golf coaches who have gotten a bigger send off” (Newark STAR LEDGER, 8/17).

High pressure has built over New Mexico today. Some moisture trapped underneath the high has brought in isolated to scattered showers and storms, mainly along the central mountain chain and into western New Mexico. It was also an even hotter day with more record and near-record high temperatures. Sunday will be a drier day with highs once again flirting or breaking record highs. Storms will be likely though in southern Colorado and far northern New Mexico.

Record and near-record high temperatures will continue through at least the middle of next week as the monsoon high stays camped out over New Mexico. Monsoon moisture continues to get wrapped around the high pressure, bringing in some isolated storms to far western and northern New Mexico through next Wednesday. A surge of moisture from the east will move in starting next Thursday, increasing rain chances at the end of next week.

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Saturday the deadline has been extended for wildfire and flooding victims to apply for FEMA assistance.

Affected residents now have until October 19 to apply for aid. This encompasses anyone the South Fork and Salt Fires affected, as well as residents affected by flooding in these places:

• Lincoln County
• Otero County
• San Juan County
• Rio Arriba County
• Mescalero Apache Tribe

“We appreciate our federal partners’ work to help us support New Mexicans who were impacted,” Gov. Lujan Grisham said. “Even after the fires tore through these communities, they continue to be affected by the flooding, making it imperative that we give them more time to apply for the help they need to rebuild.” 

This extension also gives residents another 60 days to apply for both FEMA Individual Assistance and Small Business loans from the Small Business Administration.  

How can you apply for assistance? Here’s a few ways:

• Visit a Disaster Resource and Recovery Center Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Locations for those centers are listed at fema.gov/drc. 
• Apply online at www.DisasterAssistance.gov. 
• Call the FEMA application phone number at 1-800-621-3362 (TTY: 800-462-7585).

“Calls are accepted every day from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mountain time. Help is available in most languages. If you use a relay service, such as video relay (VRS), captioned telephone or other service, give FEMA the number for that service,” a news release specified.

The State of New Mexico is also still offering full-service debris removal from private property at no cost to residents. There is no deadline to sign up. You can go here to learn more about that.