UNLV senior running back Tim Cornett hobbled away from Rebel Park on crutches Tuesday, looking nowhere close to being ready to play a football game.
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Whether running back Tim Cornett plays against UNLV’s chief rival — or against any other football team this season — remains a mystery.
Even though oddsmakers label the visiting Rebels 25½-point underdogs in a line that has moved No. 17 Fresno State’s way since it opened, UNLV running back Tim Cornett isn’t ready to abandon hope.
Getting out of bed last season often was a five-minute process for Derek Carr, the pain so great from the abdominal tear he suffered in training camp that just beginning the day was a grueling process.
Nolan Kohorst is not for dramatics, which is all the more ironic when you consider the spot he holds on a football team. But his is a simple, candid study of how many college coaches might view a kicker when deciding whether to offer a scholarship.
UNLV needs to win twice in its final six games to become bowl eligible for the first time in 13 years. The bad news for the Rebels is they might not be favored in any of those games.
This was supposed to be the Year of the Quarterback in the Mountain West. It instead has become the Year of the Quarterback Change.
UNLV’s offense is not only good, but by the Rebels’ standards, it is historically good. But now the Rebels face an offense that is playing at an even higher level.
When the football schedule was released in April, it seemed apparent the four-game stretch that ends Saturday would make or break UNLV’s season. It’s a span of games that only has grown in importance with each of the three Rebels victories.
Opponents mostly have chosen to play UNLV wide receiver Devante Davis straight up, and he has made them pay. But don’t necessarily look for a change in strategy.