New Mexico State offensive coordinator Tyler Wright is underneath investigation by the college for derogatory tweets posted underneath his X (previously Twitter) account. Between 2011 and 2014, Wright, then a large receiver at Tarleton State, posted greater than 150 tweets containing derogatory references or language in direction of ladies, LGBTQ+ people, Blacks and Hispanics, amongst others — a few of which comprise widespread racial slurs — based on the Las Cruces Solar-Information. 

Wright was not current for the Aggies’ Week 5 recreation in opposition to New Mexico and won’t be across the group because the college investigates the matter. 

Comparable exercise from Wright halted in 2015, per the Solar-Information, when he was employed because the huge receivers coach at Permian Excessive Faculty in Odessa, Texas.

“We talked to the boys very briefly this morning about it,” New Mexico State coach Tony Sanchez mentioned after the 50-40 loss to New Mexico. “We talked about, you understand, nothing adjustments. We did not discover out till actually late final evening (Friday). Had no alternative to know precisely what was happening. It is form of humorous the way it bought dropped on the final second, late at evening — within the lifeless of the evening. However no, we’ve not had an opportunity to overview it and we’ll touch upon it later.” 

Wright was employed by former NMSU coach Jerry Kill in December 2021 as particular groups coordinator and tight ends coach. He was elevated to offensive coordinator and moved to quarterbacks coach within the offseason forward of Sanchez’s first yr main this system.