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No monkey? No problem – Hawaii coach gets attention with Elvis impersonator

If this football thing doesn’t work out for Nick Rolovich, the Hawaii football coach could always go into marketing.

He’s a natural.

By far the most unusual happening at this week’s Mountain West Conference Football Summit was the appearance of an Elvis Presley impersonator that Rolovich hired for two hours at $350 per hour to follow him around the Cosmopolitan.

And that wasn’t even Rolovich’s zaniest idea.

“That seemed to be the most fitting and doable,” Rolovich said of Elvis and Las Vegas. “Originally, I wanted to get a monkey. They have them, they’re just expensive.