2015-2016 Football Previews (MWC) – Rebels
The UNLV Rebels have made a huge coaching gamble. The team has hired Tony Sanchez from Bishop Gorman.
That’s right. Bishop Gorman — the high school.
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MWC 2015-2016 College Football Preview – UNLV
Head Coach: Tony Sanchez
2014 Record: 2-11
Season Win Total (from 5Dimes): 2.5
High school systems have have been a solid place to find assistants throughout the years, but even that’s always a bit hit or miss.
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Former coach Bobby Hauck took this team to one bowl game and four 10-loss years in four years, so a change was obviously in order.
Now it’s time to see if the gamble will pay off, as this program is already considered one of the worst in the nation in terms of football.
Team Strengths
We’ll be blunt right out of the gate here. There aren’t many strengths on this roster at this juncture.
Luckily for the Rebels, we can identify wide receiver as one of their silver linings.
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Devonte Boyd caught a team-best 65 passes last season for a total of 980 yards. Those numbers resulted in four touchdowns, and the 6’1″, 175-pound sophomore will be back looking to build upon the success he had a year ago.
Team Weaknesses
This team needs to focus on accuracy in the passing game this season. In 2014, Blake Decker tossed 18 interceptions to just 15 touchdowns. He did finish the year with the most total offense in the Mountain West, but that hardly made up for throwing more completions to the opposite team than he did for scores to his own teammates.
Also on offense, the Rebels will look to rebuild an O-Line that has last Brett Boyko and Robert Waterman — both four-year starters.
Defensively, Kent Baer, the team’s newest defensive coordinator, will have a challenge ahead of him. Not only was this group 111th in points allowed last season (38.5 per contest), but the D-Line is young and needs some serious coaching to improve upon that awful number from a year ago.
UNLV Rebels 2015-2016 Prediction: 1-11
Tony Sanchez won six straight state titles at Bishop Gorman. That’s a strong track record, but don’t expect the high school coach to come in and immediately turn around a program that should finish dead last in its division this season.
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In six of its last nine seasons, UNLV has lost double-digit contests. The schedule isn’t going to help with this year’s hopes, meaning at least 10 losses should be on the horizon once again.
UNLV Rebels 2015 Football Schedule
- Sat, Sept 5 @ Northern Illinois
- Sat, Sept. 12 vs. UCLA
- Sat, Sept. 19 @ Michigan
- Sat, Sept. 26 vs. Idaho State
- Sat, Oct. 3 @ Nevada
- Sat, Oct. 10 vs. San Jose State
- Fri, Oct. 16 @ Fresno State
- Sat, Oct. 31 vs. Boise State
- Sat, Nov. 7 vs. Hawaii
- Sat, Nov. 14 @ Colorado State
- Sat, Nov. 21 vs. San Diego State
- Sat, Nov. 28 @ Wyoming
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