Eight UNLV Rebels going home for game at Hawaii

Adam Sandler has got nothing on UNLV defensive tackle Salanoa-Alo Wily.

While the actor portrayed a water-boy-turned-football-player in the movie “The Waterboy,” Wily followed that path in real life growing up in Oahu, Hawaii, where as a middle schooler he helped keep the football players at Kahuku High School hydrated.

In Saturday’s game against Hawaii at Honolulu’s Aloha Stadium, the Rebels starter will line up directly across from one of those players in Rainbow Warriors right guard John Wa’a.

“I’m really excited. This is probably going to be one of the most interesting games,” Wily said. “I’m going head to head against someone I used to be a water boy for.”

Wily, a 275-pound sophomore, is…