Inside Jason Eck's rise from unheralded assistant to New Mexico head coach

February 16, 2025

By Sean Reider, Albuquerque Journal: Perhaps more than any other career, coaching takes you to unexpected places. And perhaps more than any other coach, Jason Eck didn’t need another reminder.

Reporting to work at a public transit center in Macomb, Illinois did the trick, though.

“Kind of a time where (I thought), ‘hey man,'” he laughed, “‘is there something better to be doing?'”

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'A 25-year overnight success': Inside Jason Eck's rise from unheralded assistant to New Mexico's head coach

Feb. 15—Perhaps more than any other career, coaching takes you to unexpected places. And perhaps more than any other coach, Jason Eck didn't need another reminder. Reporting to work at a public transit center in Macomb, Illinois did the trick, though. "Kind of a time where (I thought), 'hey man,'" he laughed, "'is there something better to be doing?'" It was 2012. Western Illinois had just ...

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