NMSU PRESIDENT VALERIO, FROM HIS SECOND DAY ON THE JOB, RESPONDING TO HIS FIRST ACT AS PRESIDENT, FIRING ATHLETIC DIRECTOR MARIO MOCCIA. MOCCIA WAS OFFERED A FIVE YEAR EXTENSION IN 2023 ...

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KTSM) — New Mexico State University President Valerio Ferme and the university’s Acting Athletic Director Amber Burdge met with media on Friday, Jan. 3 to talk about the firing ...

This story was updated at 5 p.m. Friday to include an update from NMSU on when Mario Moccia received his written notice of termination, and that he is on paid leave for one month, as required by ...

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 ...

LATER IN OUR NEWSCAST. NOW TO BREAKING NEWS THIS HOUR. NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY HAS FIRED ITS ATHLETIC DIRECTOR, MARIO MOCCIA. SASHA LENNINGER JOINS US NOW IN STUDIO WITH WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR.

[2] NMSU fires Athletic Director Mario Moccia – NMSU’s athletic department has a new director after firing now former Athletic Director, Mario Moccia. The announcement came from newly sworn in ...

LAS CRUCES — New Mexico State President Valerio Ferme said the decision to fire former Athletics Director Mario Moccia with cause was his alone after reviewing documents related to alleged ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. New Mexico State athletic director Mario Moccia speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, in ...

But also in 2023, New Mexico State gave Moccia a five-year contract extension and a $72,000 raise to $351,000 a year in the first year of the new deal, which was scheduled to end in 2028.

Visit lcsun-news.com to learn more. Mario Moccia has been dismissed as the New Mexico State athletic director, an NMSU communications spokesperson confirmed Thursday morning to the Las Cruces Sun ...

Feb 10, 2024; El Paso, Texas, USA; New Mexico State Aggies athletics director Mario Moccia looks on from the stands as the Aggies face the UTEP Miners during the first half at Don Haskins Center.