He's right about one thing. San Jose State may not be as bad as their record.
Combined record of teams they've lost to is something like 29-8.
I think SJSU is better than their record.
But it seems there’s a whole lot of Same Old Rebels out there outside of the fanbase. Can’t blame them, really, not on the surface of it. We are one of the worst teams in the history of NCAA Football. So It’s tough to believe 6-1, it’s tough to believe they might actually be good. I think our fans have turned the corner (and we are a tough crowd with UNLV football, we don’t have a large segment of lunatic football fans that think everything is rosy … we certainly do in hoops …).
If you toss out our long history, change the uniform colors and slap a different mark on the helmet and watch them play … I think they are mediocre or a little above that but with the potential to do more, mainly because I’ve seen zero panic … eye test, they really have passed in most areas, they really have. I’m one that ABSOLUTELY takes SOS into account (that’s why I didn’t buy into last season’s gaudy OOC or Menzies 20 wins) … even with us playing crappy teams … they’re executing, they’re poised, they’re forcing turnovers, they’re converting third downs, they aren’t turning it over and they have some good depth at skills positions … some of those types of things are foundational, they’re more about you than the other team …
But I half expect many football fans outside of UNLV to come across even more slowly than UNLV fans …
And listen, we already know what happens when UNLV drops one … obviously to a lesser scale, but it’ll be the Dion treatment when they lost.
So to me it’s whatever … just keep playing hard and focused, lay it all out on the field and I can handle whatever the results are. I think they’ve earned respect.
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