New Mexico State University’s athletics department is turning the page after a decade of Mario Moccia at the helm.
That was the main message that new NMSU president Valerio Ferme and acting athletics director Amber Burdge hoped to impart during a news conference a day after announcing Moccia’s firing. Ferme officially started at NMSU as interim president in November, and assumed the presidency outright on Jan. 1. Ferme confirmed Friday that Moccia had been fired and did not resign.
“My assessment was that NMSU needed a change,” Ferme said in a prepared statement to start the news conference. “Because it has been two and a half years that we have been embroiled in controversy with athletics. … We need to do better.”…