CG 6'4 Darius Carr: '23 to New Mexico State

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Back home in LA transferred to CSUN (Big West)

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NMSU completely cleaned house after last year's disaster. I think this is fairly unprecedented in college hoops. The rookie head coach we brought in from the JUCO ranks was an absolute nightmare. He brought several of his players with him from his national championship JUCO team and they were nothing but a bunch of thugs who stirred up crap. This has nothing to do with the Mike Peake incident at UNM. Peake was already there from the Chris Jans era, but the new coach handled that very poorly as well. I can't think of any other situation in college sports where a first year coach was fired before his first year was even completed, and his entire roster of players was also let go. We hired Jason Hooten from Sam Houston who at least so far has shown to be a class act. He had to come in with a completely blank slate, hire a full staff of assistants, and recruit 13 scholarship players. How do you recruit players when you bring them on campus visits and there's no team to hang out with? Somehow he pulled it off. This squad probably isn't going to win CUSA in its first year in the conference but word on the street is they're going to be competitive. The program is going to rebound from last year's train wreck quite nicely.