Oklahoma, he said, offered to pay him the same salary as its famous football coach, Barry Switzer. Skeptical of the OU bookkeeping, Henson instead accepted an offer from Illinois, where a national championship was a worthy goal almost every year. With his old school in a bind, Henson returned to coaching. At his insistence, he worked for a dollar a month in his first season back at NMSU.
Henson said he is a big fan of Floyd's. Lou Henson photo gallery. His son, Lou Henson Jr. Earned his master's degree in educational administration in Did you know: Lou is a skilled checkers player. The fund supports deserving student-athletes at NMSU. Henson was head coach of the varsity for four seasons, and won state championships in , , and In , he took over at New Mexico State University. He would lead the Fighting Illini to the Final Four.
Henson retired in , after 21 seasons at Illinois. Now, he says, even after years of poring over minute details to finish a book, he knows he may leave gaps in logic or flabby sentences for readers to untangle. So Metz shares his finished manuscripts with anybody curious enough to read them.
He just completed what will become his 20th book, and while seeking a publisher, he hopes ordinary people can help him perfect it. But when somebody comes back with a manuscript and says, 'It was fine,' I know he or she didn't want to hurt my feelings.
I won't share another one with those people. His life story is one of true grit. The son of a laborer and a stay-at-home mom, Metz grew up in Parkersburg, W. He had four brothers, and to hear Metz tell it, he was the oldest and the slowest. He made A's in literature courses but says he struggled to pass if he had to write anything. No teacher seemed to notice that his ferocious reading habits made him a good prospect to be a writer.
Schoolmates teased him unmercifully because his family had saddled him with the first name Claire, which sounded girlish. It never occurred to me then that people would lie in print, but I found it out later, when I learned more about the story. After graduating from Parkersburg High School in , Metz wanted to join the Army so he could see the world. A recruiter told him his journey would start at Fort Campbell, Ky.
He naively assumed that Fort Campbell would be the destination, not the start of a journey. He dug out his birth certificate, necessary for enlistment, and discovered that his name actually was Leon Claire Metz.
It was an early lesson on the value of research. Had he checked sooner, he would have embraced his given first name, Leon, and avoided a lot of fights and teasing. The story was written by investigative reporter David Crowder, who was formerly employed by the El Paso Times and now works as a political writer for El Paso Inc. Reporter Darren Meritz apparently lost his job at the El Paso Times last month after he began asking questions about a close personal relationship that appeared to have developed between his city editor, Milan Simonich, and candidate for El Paso county attorney Teresa Caballero.
Crowder wrote that Simonich and Caballero had been seen together in bars and restaurants and were even spotted buying groceries together.
Later, Meritz was dismissed from his job after errors were found in an unrelated story. Bernal went on to win the Democatic nomination for the seat during the March primary. Crowder explained the situation which lead to the dismissal of Meritz who was fired after a series of events which would co-workers said would not normally carry such consequences in this article. Apparently many in the media network saw what some thought to be inappropriate behavior between Simonich and Caballero.
After Meritz was asked to interview Caballero by Simonich he inquired into the relationship between the two. The responses he was given were non-committal, but only raised more questions. Meritz was pulled off political reporting after questioning Simonich closely and soon after he was fired when an error was discovered in one of his stories.
Colleagues were surprised at the dismissal of Meritz, who said he did his job well. More here…. After looking into the facts on Simonich it appears to be entirely possible that there is something more behind his attacks on Republican officials in New Mexico. And why is former Democrat Chair Wertheim talking along the same lines?
Maybe they get their talking points from the same playbook? They have no other playbook. Truth does not matter. What matters is winning. That is the only thing that matters. Until then, they let it ride. Like Like.
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