Gazette: How do you feel about the New Mexico game being moved to Dallas and the Cotton Bowl?
Calhoun: "That's not for a coach to comment on. It's just like it would be if you were lieutenant colonel and you're on your seventh deployment in Vietnam and you see some things. You see there's no way democracy is going to gain traction here and maybe you've lost some of your own troops and some of your own men in battle, but yet that's not your call. ...
"That's a bigger position that comes from beyond you. Your job is to serve and it's your job to follow orders, as it would be for that lieutenant colonel, too. ... Maybe if you realize it's 1972 and we've lost 52,000 of my fellow compatriots and you see things from a little different viewpoint and yet that's not your job. Your job is not to be that aware or have that kind of perspective. It's not. Your job is to follow orders.
"To answer your question directly, it's not the coach's job. ... It's just not your job. As a soldier and as a troop, you're right at the tip of spear, you know what gives you the best chance to win or maybe to obliterate the enemy. ...
"But your job is to serve and to follow orders and you put both heels and your toes at the 45 and you salute. That's your job. That's your job as a solider and as a coach, too."
