Marcus Arroyo has been fired after three seasons as the UNLV football coach, the university announced this morning. The Rebels went 5-7 this season — including beating UNR on Saturday in the Fremont Cannon rivalry game ...
Polu’s debut this week comes with some pressure. He was the first local to sign with Sanchez’s Rebels, the first player who agreed with Sanchez’s recruiting pitch that ...
UNLV Athletics has reported a balanced budget for the second straight year, although athletics director Tina Kunzer-Murphy is already projecting a probable shortfall for the 2016-17 fiscal year. Three things in particular helped UNLV’s total revenues: an extra …
UNLV President Neal Smatresk calls the school's athletic program the “front porch.” “We want people to walk up, look around and hopefully come in and visit...” he said. To spruce up its porch, UNLV hired football coach Bobby Hauck.
The UNLV football team hasn’t played in a bowl game since the 2000 Las Vegas Bowl. But if newly hired coach Bobby Hauck turns the program around and the Rebels reach a Bowl Champions Series game, the 45-year-old coach would receive a $100,000 bonus.
One gift down, one to go. Christmas is still two days away, but the Hauck family already has opened its first football present of the holiday season. Former Montana football coach Bobby Hauck was introduced Wednesday at Thomas & Mack Center as the 10th football coach in UNLV history. And sitting 1,800 miles away in Nashville, his little brother was smiling. “I can’t stop smiling,” Tim Hauck said over the phone from the Tennessee Titans compound in Nashville. “I’m just really happy for him.”
Bobby Hauck has been the football coach at UNLV for only one day, yet his energy and enthusiasm for the program already seems contagious. Hired as the 10th coach in program history Tuesday, the 45-year-old Hauck was full of optimism during an introductory news conference Wednesday at the Thomas & Mack Center.
A source has confirmed to the Sun that 45-year-old Bobby Hauck, who coached seven seasons at Montana, will be introduced as UNLV's new head football coach Wednesday.
Montana coach Bobby Hauck led the Grizzlies into the Football Championship Series title game Friday night in Chattanooga, Tenn., where they finished the season 14-1 with a 23-21 loss to Villanova. He will be in Las Vegas on Sunday for an interview, while Dennis Franchione, who last coached at Texas A&M in 2007, will be in town Monday for his interview.
The time zone will change, but Linda Livengood will still expect to see her husband Jim waking up each day at 4 a.m. and heading off to the office about two hours later. At his introductory press conference Thursday afternoon, new UNLV athletic director Jim Livengood, 64, answered numerous questions regarding his hunger for the new challenge after serving as the AD at Arizona for 16 years.
One high school football player who verbally committed to the UNLV football team hasn't heard from anyone affiliated with the program in nearly a month. Another commit had his November recruiting trip delayed for a week, then indefinitely postponed. Still, the three high school seniors who have committed to UNLV said this week that they plan on sticking with the Rebels come national signing day Feb. 3.
With a contract at Arizona expiring June 30, athletic director Jim Livengood has no intentions of riding into the Southwestern sunset yet. The last candidate to come back to UNLV to interview for the school's AD vacancy said as much Tuesday.
The ranch in Valley Ford, Wash., won't go anywhere. But Bill Moos wouldn't mind turning it into a nice getaway spot as opposed to a permanent residence, which is what it currently serves as.
In an unusual event of sorts, Washington State senior associate athletic director John Johnson — one of three finalists for UNLV's AD post — passed with flying colors Friday afternoon. The first finalist to visit campus for a final interview was available to the media and anyone else who wanted to attend and inquire in a public forum at the UNLV Student union. Two things won Johnson brownie points in the eyes of those in attendance.
