Members of the record-breaking 1984 UNLV football team were in attendance at the Spring Showcase, echoing the current team’s goal of a championship.
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Senior quarterback Max Gilliam is expected to start his third straight game of this young season when UNLV hosts Fresno State on Saturday at Allegiant Stadium.
Inexcusable setback to FCS opponent has made second game of the season for Rebels more about the big picture than any immediate goals.
UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck sees a much different Rebel team than when he took over five years ago. “They know they can win now … You learn a lot through adversity,” he says.
Tim Hauck is 46 and 2½ years younger than his brother, Bobby, but he arrives at UNLV with the sort of experience and clout that immediately earns the respect of those players he will now instruct as the team’s defensive coordinator. On paper, it’s not a good hire. It’s a terrific one.
A final score flashed from Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday night, and another unbeaten had fallen in college football, and that once-a-week question was being asked inside the Sam Boyd Stadium press box.
It might sound crazy today — you know, fresh off an embarrassing 55-7 loss to a Brigham Young football team best described as dead-flat average — but it wouldn’t be in UNLV’s best interest to stop playing the Cougars.
I am not sure when Sacramento State coaches decided it was best not to throw much against UNLV on Saturday night. It might have been when Hornets quarterback Jason Smith’s second attempt was a one-hopper on an 8-yard out that James Loney would have struggled to field.