Barry Odom notices a more physical roster and a quarterback in Doug Brumfield who has clearly done his homework this off-season. The Rebels just look like a better team.
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The Rebels need junior college star linebacker Vic Viramontes to translate his confidence off the field to a huddle.
A potential site for a College Football Playoff championship game will soon host the NFL and UNLV football, along with a new-and-much-improved Las Vegas Bowl.
The pilot program is a partnership between Findlay Toyota and the leadership firm Xs & Os of Success, one that has identified 50 freshmen at Palo Verde High that focuses on growing students socially while developing leadership skills.
In the vacuum that was 12 college football games, Tony Sanchez saw progress.
Peni Vea wasn’t alone in his desire to get off the rock, one of many born and raised in Hawaii who covet a chance to experience another place, another sense of culture and tradition. No, really.
Say this for Tony Sanchez: He has spread the word about UNLV football like a politician might his platform around Iowa cornfields.
UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck used to sell a dream, now he’s got a bowl appearance to sell recruits. On Wednesday, he announces his first recruiting class at UNLV that follows a winning season and a bowl appearance.
Jim Livengood wanted most to see a football team with a brain, a side that while not as good and unquestionably not as big or physical as its Midwest opponent, at least gave the appearance of having a clue.
Mike Sanford has to be coaching for his job on a weekly basis now. If he’s not, it will be because his superiors at UNLV have forgotten the most significant rule: the program comes first.
Excuse any typos in the following because it is October and UNLV football has yet to be eliminated from bowl consideration and that kind of radical occurrence might tend to play tricks when hunting and pecking for ways to comprehend it all.
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