The rankings by the recruiting services don’t reflect how impressed they are with Bobby Hauck’s effort in putting together his first class as UNLV’s football coach.
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The telephone in the high school football coach’s office rang a few days after the announcement of a hiring at UNLV. The visit came shortly thereafter.
LARAMIE, Wyo. — No insult intended to junior guard Kendall Wallace, but when he’s in the starting lineup for UNLV, it’s probably because of bad news. In this case, it’s another injury.
Cox Pavilion hasn’t been kind to the UNLV women’s basketball team since Mountain West Conference play tipped off last month.
Given how well his team played in the fall, UNLV men’s golf coach Dwaine Knight is cautiously optimistic his young team will carry over its strong play into the spring.
Linebackers Kyle Anderson of Silverado High School and Perry Cooper of The Woodlands (Texas) High School committed to UNLV’s football team on Sunday.
New UNLV football coach Bobby Hauck is bringing a new brand of discipline and planning to the Rebels after seven successful years at Montana, who played in three national title games in the former I-AA. Anything close to that kind of success in the Mountain West Conference might make Rebels fans happy. But the very private Hauck is much more than an accomplished football coach.
Eleven players are consistently seeing the floor for UNLV, and such a deep rotation is rare for a college basketball team three months into the season. It was coach Lon Kruger’s plan all along, and he’s sticking to it.
In November there were questions about which one of the 11 would be the Rebels’ leader. On and off the floor, junior guard Tre’Von Willis has provided the answer.
Quarterback Taylor Barnhill has already committed to UNLV. Now he gets to visit.
An optimist would say UNLV junior Derrick Jasper received a positive injury report Wednesday. His basketball season is expected to continue. But he will miss approximately five weeks, after an MRI examination revealed a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee.
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