Mike Sanford has to be coaching for his job on a weekly basis now. If he’s not, it will be because his superiors at UNLV have forgotten the most significant rule: the program comes first.
Ed Graney
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RENO–As the seconds tick down to yet another kickoff for UNLV-UNR football today and some take odds on whether Mike Sanford will enter Mackay Stadium on an elephant to fully experience the circus atmosphere he insists is part of the state rivalry game, it’s important to clear up a few misconceptions regarding the Limited Access Bowl.
There was nothing Mirjana Lucic couldn’t do on a tennis court. If only her father had stopped beating her off it. Perhaps then, she wouldn’t have disappeared from the game for nearly five years. Now she’s back, at the USTA Pro Circuit Lexus of Las Vegas Open at Red Rock Country Club.
On its face, Mike Sanford limiting media access to his UNLV football team this week means as much as one raindrop in a monsoon. Absolutely nothing.
This is what Tom Busch sees weekly that NASCAR fans don’t: one of the best Sprint Cup drivers in the world spending his day off under the hood of a car for six hours with a young driver eager for guidance.
So now we know. Mark Martin lives in Daytona Beach, Fla., an hour’s drive up Interstate 95 to reach the coastal town of St. Augustine, where about 12,000 people reside and you can find more than 20 species of crocodile at the local zoo.
It’s a good thing Chip Kelly doesn’t manage the Chicago Cubs. Or coach the Detroit Lions. Or produce movies starring Rob Schneider.
UNLV’s football team hasn’t won a Mountain West Conference road game in four years under Mike Sanford. None. Zilch. Zero.
Every now and then, you expect some director to sprint from behind a punching bag and scream, “Cut!”
Now listen lads, I’m not happy with our tackling. We’re hurting them, but they keep getting up.
Here’s what those trying to annually grow the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open need to recognize: Crazy isn’t needed. Consistency is.
Now is when we see if all the talk about experience and attitude and determination is true.
The word from Corvallis is that Jacquizz Rodgers is a busy guy who doesn’t get all that excited about interviews. At least that’s the word an Oregon State media relations department official offered Monday.
It doesn’t matter which voter from The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll said it. The message is far more important, because it again cuts to a reality of how many continue to buy into that cartel known as Bowl Championship Series.
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