What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
With apologies to the classic Paul Newman movie, “Cool Hand Luke,” UNLV’s football team attributed some of its struggles on both sides of the ball in Saturday’s 44-21 loss at Central Michigan to a lack of communication.
Assignments lost in translation were especially apparent on defense, which gave up 499 yards of total offense for the second straight game and allowed Chippewas quarterback Cooper Rush to throw six touchdown passes, several of them to wide-open receivers.
“We had some major breakdowns,” Rebels coach Tony Sanchez said. “Mentally we did not have a very good game.