Former UNLV coach Jeff Horton thinks Tony Sanchez can create tradition

San Diego State assistant coach Jeff Horton directs players during the Aztecs' 45-40 victory over last month. (Derrick Tuscan/SDSU Athlete Media Relations)

SAN DIEGO — They would not be etched with the sort of history any of them envisioned, and yet if Rebel Park was defined by how well UNLV’s football program has performed over the last three decades, well, I suppose a place of ghosts and haunted memories and distressing epitaphs would suffice.

Time might erase inscriptions, but it can’t totally expunge results.

“We kid around all the time about that graveyard out there at Rebel Park,” Jeff Horton said. “It has Bobby’s tombstone out there. My tombstone. There are a lot of coaches’ tombstones…