Think of the fundraising efforts for state-of-the-art facilities as a piston, the decorated recruiting class as a crankshift, the vast social media presence to engage a community as a water jacket.
All necessary parts.
But as UNLV’s football program sits, there is no cylinder on which to bolt them. The engine isn’t near constructed under head coach Tony Sanchez, and won’t be until the most important of all components is discovered.
Which is to say more checks in the win column.
Sanchez’s second year leading the Rebels concluded with a thud louder than any dragster firing down a strip, a forgettable 45-10 loss to rival UNR on Saturday that saw the Wolf Pack wheel the Fremont Cannon out of Sam Boyd Stadium in search of a proper blue paint job (sans profanities) and many of those issues that led to UNLV finishing 4-8 rearing their ugly head.