Breaking down UNLV’s football game at Utah State on Saturday.
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The original plan was for tradition-rich Grambling State to play UNLV on Saturday at Sam Boyd Stadium.
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JD Alexander is pushing for a backup linebacker spot at UNLV. He transferred from Arizona State largely because of his dad, Del, a former Rebels assistant football coach who also knew UNLV coach Tony Sanchez.
After six weeks of high-intensity meetings with generous high-fiving for the delivery of a comprehensive stadium development deal for the Oakland Raiders and UNLV football, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority got down to more mundane work Thursday.
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UNLV has talented wide receivers, but they haven’t been consistent. They also are trying to develop chemistry with redshirt freshman quarterback Armani Rogers.
The defense got the best of the offense in the early part of Saturday’s UNLV football scrimmage at Sam Boyd Stadium. The offense, though, played better later on.
UNLV has gone years of playing substandard defense. Coaches hope as they enter their third season that they’re beginning to reverse the trend.
The Oakland Raiders and local officials are no further along than they were a year ago in locking down a key aspect of the Las Vegas stadium project: how much it will cost.
UNLV received two more verbal commitments to its 2017 football recruiting class in two-star defensive end Nate Neal and junior college center Sid Acosta.
Quarterback Kurt Palandech and backup kicker Nicolai Bornand were cool under pressure in leading the Rebels to a wild 69-66 triple-overtime win over Wyoming on Saturday before 14,790 at Sam Boyd Stadium.
When the entirety of Sam Boyd Stadium exhaled late Saturday afternoon from the sheer lunacy that had just transpired, UNLV’s football team had earned itself a three-overtime win against favored Wyoming because of a simple but significant element.
The most appealing parallel for the Rebels — 6-15 in two seasons under Tony Sanchez — is that Wyoming went 6-18 in Craig Bohl’s first two seasons before breaking through for seven wins this year.
Salanoa-Alo Wily, a 275-pound sophomore, is one of eight former Hawaii high school players on the Rebels’ roster.
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