Yes it has been consistently poor. He does have veto powers but he can only veto the talent that his assistants find to offer.
With the injury to Dahdashtian I was really expecting one or two of those JC DL's to step up and be a factor. Nope.
My hope is that Skipper having a full year to recruit will start to make a difference, but as you say this year's HS recruits will take several years to pay off. In December the JC commits should start appearing. Three guys from Skipper's first class that I expected to contribute this season didn't much: Malcolm Johnson DE, Salu LB, and JC DB Luca Vartic (who was injured before the season; I think he committed before Skipper was
The biggest problem is failing to take that into account. It may be mediocre by all standards but not at UNLV so you are only begging the question. It's like saying that Bill Snyder didn't do a very good job at Kansas State in his first 4 seasons because it was mediocre compared to the rest of the country. KSU fans wanted him fired after his 4th season where he ended up 5-6 yet in just three more years he led them to finish 6th in the Nation, eventually make them into a Conference Champion and repeatedly a Top 10 team. The fact is that what CTS has done is an improvement for UNLV. That is a fact that answers your very narrow and not very reasonable question with all of the artificially narrow limitations.
Eliminating the facility forces people to argue based off on field results.
Which you know well and good is all people care about.
Great Tony had a rich benefactor.
Win games. Beat teams you should beat.
Nobody is arguing that Coach Sanchez hasn't improved infrastructure.
But if that is all he can hang his hat on for me it's not enough.
I don't buy multiple season tickets to give away to help support the program to watch dudes lift weights. I do it in hope of watching more wins than losses.
If the recruiting is better than it is not wrong to expect the results to reflect that.
They did not.
They were better last year. And you could make a solid argument the 4 wins in year 2 were more impressive and that team was closer to bowl eligibility.
Are there depth issues on defense. Yep. And you know as well as anybody that falls directly on Sanchez.
The real issue is this.
Myself and other diehard fans do not matter. We show up regardless.
Sanchez' job along with winning games was to build some excitement. Win knew fans. This season probably did not do that. Call them bandwagon fans, fair weather fans, whatever. We need them. There aren't enough of us diehards.
Las Vegas in general cares about UNLV football as much now as it did when Sanchez took over, which is to say hardly at all. If the plan/hope is the new stadium is going to cure all the attendance woes, it's a horrible plan. That new car smell wears out quick if the team is still getting its teeth kicked in.
Next seasons schedule on paper is more difficult. If we get another 5-7 season what will the narrative be then?
Can't say facility. Or are we going to get the 'we need another year to see the benefits of the facility narrative'?
I mean damn it, the rebuild has to end some decade doesn't it?
I can be happy about last nights win and have a long enough memory to recall at least 2 losses that would cost most coaches their job.