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Harvey Hyde, the coach of the 1984 UNLV football team that will be inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame on Friday night, used to be a bit of a pirate. In the colorful, “aye matey, arrrrgh ye comin’ along for the ride?” sense, not the pillaging and plundering sense, though the Rebels of his era certainly pillaged and plundered Cal State Fullerton and San Jose State and some of those other teams.
Some college football teams can be on the wrong side of four or five critical plays each game and still win comfortably. UNLV can’t.
Mike Sanford has come here, a place discovered when Brigham Young sent Mormon settlers to survey the site of a fort near the banks of a river, a town 82 miles north of Salt Lake City that lies near the slopes of the northernmost branch of the Wasatch Range, to continue a journey.
It was 30 minutes before UNLV played its fourth straight home football game to begin this season, 30 minutes before the Rebels attempted to earn one win before facing their own personal Blair Witch Project, commonly known as road games.