User profile: LouDog777

Coach, I love reading your stories and thoughts, you are truly a great, inspirational man. I remember quite a bit of bad blood with Arizona back in the day and how after the Othic fiasco, the nickname "Midnight Lute" really took off.

A fun factoid. My daughter flew down to Arizona to see her mother for Christmas. I fly her into Tucson and she happened to fly out on the Southwest flight that the Arizona team was flying home on. My wife and daughter collected autographs from the team and then, when they were boarding, we hit them with the "Go REBELS" cheer.

Hopefully it will turn out to be minor, but it sure sounds like it could be another sports hernia to strike UNLV's high hopes.

I have to say that I bought into what Sanford was selling this year and attended all but one home game. It was maddening to me to see the lack of defense and defensive adjustments during games. The offense seemed to be able to adapt the passing game somewhat, but the running game was an absolute JOKE. We have the Tank with a few decent backups and gain less yards against one of the, if not the, worst run defense in the COUNTRY and gain less yards that we did against TCU on the ground. I know we had a ton of O-line injuries this year and injuries overall, but it was still an incredible disappointment. When our defense was beat up, we go to playing an ultra-soft scheme instead of an attacking scheme so two defenders in the secondary can watch mediocre receivers run past them. I could go on and all, but what I would like to see is more improvement and more consistent in game adjustment from the staff.

I love the coverage that the Sun gives to UNLV and the local scene in general. I've been in Las Vegas for over 29 years and it has been a long time coming. Please keep up the good work and keep us updated somewhat in the offseason.

I was at the game last night, there was a "buzz" around the stadium when I finally got in. 6pm is a horrible starting time when you have to cross town to get all the way out to Sam Boyd. I got off work a few minutes after 5pm and had to make the trek from Durango & US95. I only missed the first 7 minutes of the game, but very upset that I missed the Senior Day presentation. Good win by the team. Nice to see the defense making plays instead of reacting to getting beaten. Next up, San Diego State. . .

I totally agree with you there Lenny, he was an incredibly scrappy role player last year. If he tries to hard to assert himself, it might take away from his self-less play.
The season really seems to hold a lot of promise. Some of the more negative posters (or posers) seem to think that the basketball season is like the football season and you have no chance of winning the national title unless you are undefeated. Hopefully the guys will learn from their losses this year and be ready for the postseason. Lon has showed he is capable of adapting his players to augment their strengths. Just look at our size issues last year.