PROVO, Utah — Call it revisionist history or simple semantics, but UNLV football coach Mike Sanford seems to have changed his mind about whether his team quit against Brigham Young here two years ago.
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PROVO, Utah — On paper, it’s France against Russia. Or Britain. Or Italy (both times). It’s Bennett against John Matrix. It’s the Easy-Bake Oven against Wolfgang Puck.
It will be two months until Derrick Jasper is ready to participate in basketball practices and another year until he can play in a game for UNLV. About all he can do now is sit and wait.
Recruiting is the lifeblood for any college sport, and UNLV’s defense is anemic because of shortcomings in football coach Mike Sanford’s early classes.
Even now, as the season becomes more intense and the games more important, college football coaches work feverishly to line up next year’s recruiting classes.
Most of the time, Darris Santee is relaxed and quiet. He seems almost too polite to be a power forward.
Brigham Young’s loss last week at Texas Christian shifts the pressure to Utah as the Mountain West Conference’s only undefeated team and its best hope for a Bowl Championship Series bid.