Montana football coach Bobby Hauck came to Las Vegas on Sunday to interview for the UNLV job, fresh off his third Football Championship Subdivision national title appearance in six seasons.
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UNLV’s search for a new athletic director dragged out, but the man now running the department apparently is making sure the search for a new football coach is handled quickly.
Experiments can be dangerous. My son was 2 when he tried one at home, only to discover sticking a penny into an electrical outlet wasn’t as enjoyable as watching “Barney.” To this day, nine years later, the kid lives in a perpetual state of bed hair.
As UNLV searches for a football coach and athletic director, more is on the line than simply the immediate future.
Mike Sanford doesn’t leave behind many victories, but UNLV’s next football coach will inherit a more promising situation than the one Sanford walked into five years ago.
Even now that his UNLV football career has ended, wide receiver Ryan Wolfe hasn’t taken much time to reflect on his remarkable four seasons.
UNLV is facing increasing urgency to hire a football coach, which means the pressure intensifies when the search committee for a new athletic director meets this afternoon.
Ryan Wolfe has done just about everything that can be asked of a student-athlete in his five years at UNLV.
UNLV had every chance to give up Saturday, to accept the finality of the Mike Sanford Era by slinking out of Sam Boyd Stadium with another loss.
This will be a night of goodbyes, and not just for UNLV football coach Mike Sanford and possibly his entire staff.
Football coaches are itinerant, moving from job to job, with few becoming attached to one city for the long term.
Somewhere out there, or up there, or wherever they exist, the football gods owe Ryan Wolfe one.
Instead of representing her bowl game Saturday in Provo, Utah, where potential invitees Utah and Brigham Young will meet, MAACO Bowl Las Vegas executive director Tina Kunzer-Murphy will attend alma mater UNLV’s season finale against San Diego State at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Editor’s note: This is the final installment of a weekly feature in which the Las Vegas Review-Journal asks 20 questions of a UNLV football player. Today’s Q&A is with defensive end/linebacker Jason Beauchamp, a senior graduate school student from Steele Canyon High School near San Diego.