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It's not a good basketball job anymore, either.

 

Every college of a certain size feels it has to have a football team even if there is no talent in the area, no demand in the market and no history. UNLV is one of those that would be better served by punting on the sport altogether.

 

There's plenty of talent in Vegas and surrounding areas though. One of the top high school programs in the nation is in Las Vegas.

UNLV has hired a lot of bad coaches and made zero investment in the program. To Sanchez's credit, he got money in the place for the first time in decades. He couldn't get it done on the field, but the next guy actually has facilities that would make someone think they give a shit about football.

 

I remember when Utah made the BCS and Meyer headed to Florida, UNLV hired the OC Mike Sanford (sr) as HC that same day. Not sure he would have gotten the Utah HC job (whittingham was hired four days later after also mulling an offer from BYU.

I've said it before - I can't imagine what these next few weeks are like for college coaches and their families, especially the assistants. Uncertainty, new job, fired, holidays with kids, moving. Pretty much every great stressor in life. And how do you weigh competing job offers. Responsibility, job status of the current coach, community, pay, conference etc.

 

From experience I can tell you it's hell on assistants. Especially in a situation where the head guy is going to a new job and everyone knows it. The worst thing a coach can do that's in that situation is stay for a bowl because you're basically keeping a whole staff behind with you and in limbo (because if you tell a position coach he isn't coming with you ahead of time there's a near 100 percent chance they will leave after the regular season). The best thing to do is go right away and leave the old staff under an interim. This way the athletic director, director of ops, school president, etc. can meet with this assistants and deal with contracts, buyouts, whether they want you to stay regardless of who the new hire is, etc.

As a higher-level assistant once told me "buy a house where you want to live and rent where you work". He basically asked his wife where she and the kids wanted to live (she wanted to live in Virginia I believe) and they bought there. He worked around the gulf coast and they made it work by them coming down for game weekends and him going there for bye weeks, dead periods, summer breaks, etc.

 

Without football, their alternative is the Big West, the WAC or independence. Maybe the WCC would consider them but there are already a lot of schools in that league still upset they went well outside of the conference template to take BYU.

 

UNLV is a bad job for the league it is in.

And there’s not enough talent in Nevada. The best Gorman kids go to power schools.

 

Are there any public schools in the WCC? Can't see UNLV being a fit there at all.

 

Pretty obvious Schiano and his people used the media to successfully lobby for what he wants. Which, hey, Rutgers football is really bad and needs something. But this thing sure seems locked and loaded when you have Eric LeGrand writing columns two days after Schiano took his own name out of the running.

I mean, this is a news story? With this lede?

A Thanksgiving miracle might be possible for Rutgers.

On again? Under pressure, Rutgers appears on verge of reviving talks with Greg Schiano

 

Feldman is reporting that USC appears to be leading toward keeping Clay Helton.

 

None. All faith-based save Pacific, but its roots are with the Presbeterians.

 

Smart move. If Meyer isn’t biting don’t go chasing.