New Mexico State head football coach DeWayne Walker announced Friday morning that offensive coordinator and quarterback coach Mike Dunbar has retired after over 25 years in coaching.
"Obviously we are disappointed that coach Dunbar has retired," Walker said. "We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. I will begin an immediate search for a new offensive coordinator."
In his first and only season as the Aggies' play caller, Dunbar guided the NMSU offense to average 296.5 yards per game. The Aggies scored 17 total touchdowns on the season, as quarterback Matt Christian led the team with 1,372 yards passing, completing 48 percent. Dunbar also guided freshman Andrew Manley, who threw for 604 yards and a touchdown, completing 52 percent of his passes. NMSU would throw the ball 107 more times in 2010 than in 2009, while tossing nine fewer interceptions in 2010.
Prior to coming to NMSU, Dunbar was at the University of Minnesota as the Golden Gophers' assistant head coach/offensive coordinator from 2007-08.
Dunbar directed the Minnesota offense, which set a school record for pass completions (262) and had the second-most passing yards (2,949) in school history in 2007. The Gopher pass offense improved from fifth to third in the Big Ten during Dunbar's first season. He guided Minnesota freshman quarterback Adam Weber to third-team Freshman All-America and Freshman All-Big Ten honors, as the Gopher signal-caller set new school records for season
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pass completions (258), attempts (449), yards (2,895) and touchdown passes (24). Weber ranked second in the nation among freshman quarterbacks in passing yards per game (241.2) and passing touchdowns.
Dunbar also had stints as offensive coordinator at Cal, Northwestern and Toledo.
He was also the head coach at Northern Iowa from 1997-00 and at Central Washington from 1987-91.
