Eight days after saying he was staying at UNLV, freshman quarterback Jayden Maiava announced Monday night on social media that he has entered the NCAA transfer portal.
Football
UNLV can win its first Mountain West football championship when it faces perennial title contenders Boise State at noon Saturday at Allegiant Stadium.
New football coach Barry Odom and the Rebels will embark on their 2023 season at 1 p.m. Saturday when they welcome FCS school Bryant to Allegiant Stadium.
Max Gilliam and Kenyon Oblad are competing to be UNLV’s backup quarterback. No quarterback has started every Rebels game in a season since Jon Denton in 1996.
UNLV’s opponent Saturday, Fresno State, leads the Mountain West with allowing 13.5 points per game. The Bulldogs also have held their past 19 opponents to 30 points or fewer, tops in the nation.
UNLV hopes to take momentum into the new stadium when the football team moves there in 2020. That makes this season and next crucial for the long-struggling program.
UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez hoped to be preparing for a bowl, but the Rebels finished 5-7 and did not quality. So now he’s determined to continue to move the program forward.
On Monday, UNLV signed the last recruit of its 2017 football class. His name is Thaddeus Thatcher. He is 9 years old, and for the past two years has been fighting t-cell leukemia/lymphoma.
Junior transfer Sid Acosta has been impressing his UNLV teammates in the weight room. On Wednesday, Acosta got to show what he can do on the field.
UNLV coach Tony Sanchez’s third recruiting class stands at 18 with 13 high school recruits and five junior college commits from six states.
When Tico Rodriguez took over as Desert Pines football coach in 2013, he thought the Jaguars’ freshman class had a chance to be special. Four years later on National Signing Day, his hunch proved correct.
Former UNLV football player Dietrich Canterberry was arrested on suspicion of murder Sunday morning after a fight outside a Hollywood nightclub left a 29-year-old man dead, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.
At halftime of Thursday’s UNLV college football season opener, four limber young men sporting the Jackson State colors strutted onto the field around the 50-yard line at Sam Boyd Stadium.
The 24-minute news conference was nearing a close Tuesday, but it wasn’t winding down. UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez never winds down. At least it seems like he never does.
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