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The recruiting process can be fun for a lot of players, but for Fresno State freshman inside linebacker Nela Otukolo, it was not ... enjoyable, would be an apropos adjective.
The Bulldogs were the first to offer a scholarship and there was an attraction there, but Boise State also was in there, and then his high school coach at national powerhouse Bishop Gorman in Las Vegas, Tony Sanchez, was hired at UNLV and given a shot to revive the Rebels’ struggling program – and that just made too much sense.
Otukolo would follow, surely, the first in what would become a pipeline from the Gaels’ six-time state champion program to UNLV.