UNLV practice recap: Rebels prepare for Friday’s scrimmage

The UNLV football team finished its 15th of 29 practices in fall camp Thursday morning at Rebel Park and will return Thursday evening to complete its fourth and final set of two-a-day practices.

The Rebels will host their second and final intrasquad scrimmage that’s open to the public at 8:10 a.m. Friday morning at Rebel Park. UNLV coach Tony Sanchez said he plans to split the number of plays evenly between his first-, second- and third-string players.

TONY’S TAKE

“We’re not looking for a ton of reps in the scrimmage. We’ll probably get 24 good, solid, hard reps with our 1s, 2s and 3s. We’ll be up in the 70s but it will be pretty evenly distributed.

“We want to get the 3s some more reps and some of those 2s that have been battling, we want them to get some good, quality reps. Some of the guys that we feel comfortable with, we don’t need to burn them up because we’re kind of getting into managing the guys going into the first game.”

PREPARING FOR OPENER

Following Friday’s scrimmage, UNLV will hold a closed mock game Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium and take Sunday off before turning its attention Monday to its Sept. 1 season opener against Jackson State.

“Those two weeks we’re going to be focusing completely on Jackson State,” Sanchez said. “We’ll start doing all our prep two weeks out.”