Three weeks into the UNM football season and there's been enough grumbling by some Lobo fans to last three years. Only three games into his tenure at UNM and some people are ready to run off new coach Mike Locksley and his new offensive and defensive schemes. You can read the cries in the newspaper and on internet message boards and hear them on the radio. Here's a little dose of perspective...it's only three games! Three games!! If it were three years and the Lobos were still struggling with no upside, then okay the cries are justified.

You don't rebuild (though Locksley would like to call it renovate) a football program overnight. When Locksley arrived at Illinois in 2005 as offensive coordinator to join new head coach Ron Zook, the Illini were horrible and prior to their arrival had a history of medicrity. Their first season together, the Illini went 2-9. The next year, 2-10. But year three, voila! 9-4. So the moral to this story, give things a chance to work. This isn't fantasy football to where you can change out players and coaches on a whim. We're talking peoples lives here. Progress is going to be slow, kinda like baby steps. Lobo fans in general need to show a little more patience as the potential rewards far outweigh any feelings of doom and despair over a slow start.