There might not be any bigger hermits in college athletics than head football coaches, secluded from society in dark film rooms and often absent from social events that don’t include glad-handing those boosters with deep pockets.
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Coaches who take over football programs usually inherit messes left behind by previous staffs that failed to get the job done.
Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson appeared more relaxed at media days this week than in recent years and perhaps even more confident, too.
Boise State and San Diego State are back. San Jose State and Utah State, football teams coming off 11-win seasons, are in.
UNLV was picked to finish fifth out of six teams in the West Division in the annual poll at Mountain West media days Monday at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
Fresno State senior Derek Carr heads the list of impressive Mountain West quarterbacks this season. He was the conference Offensive Player of the Year last season, passing for 4,104 yards and 37 touchdowns, and was chosen by the media to repeat that honor this fall.
When she was executive director of the Las Vegas Bowl, Tina Kunzer-Murphy faced a similar moment in 2005.