Last time it was Hauck. Three years in, it was a no brainer Hauck was gone. 6 total wins, 0-3 vs Reno.
What's Hauck do, goes and wins 7 games, making it virtually impossible for AD to fire him. You can't fire a guy who gets you to your 1st bowl game in 13 years. Horrible look for the school. Kunzer-Murphy extends Hauck and he promptly goes back to two wins.
Sanchez shows steady if unspectacular growth by upping win total each year
3-4-5. Was one win away from bowl eligibility in year 3. Even year two he lost a couple of close games. That team wasn't far from a bowl birth either. Add in his off field work getting the facility going and as much as it looks like the wrong move now Tina extending another year when she did was probably the right play.
So now we have Sanchez flirting with a possible 3 win season. And another year on his contract. This was the year fans and Sanchez targeted as when the program would start to turn the corner. Instead they regressed.
By all accounts UNLV doesn't have the money to buy Sanchez out. Menzies is also probably on the hot seat which complicates things even further (firing 2 coaches in a year is not an enviable place to be) There may be moves going on behind the scenes but I doubt it.
Simply put, UNLV probably can't afford to fire/buyout Sanchez. But the program really can't afford another bad season either.
There is every possibility Sanchez could turn things around next year. He's had some good recruiting classes. The incoming one looks particularly promising. But does anybody here think he can do it? I'm highly skeptical at this point.
If UNLV is counting on the new stadium to fix their attendance woes, it's a horrible strategy. There will be a bump year one. People like shiny new stuff. But there has to be tangible evidence that the product on the field is better or people will stop showing up. There are just to many other options out there for people to spend their money on with the Knights and soon to be the Raiders in town.
This should have been the springboard year. UNLV should be playing in a bowl this year and building some momentum. Next year should have been the 7-5 or 8-4 year where UNLV becomes that sleeping giant that finally wakes up that we've heard about from every coach since Robinson.
Instead we head into another offseason, with a coach heading into his 5th year who is on the hot seat....
What's Hauck do, goes and wins 7 games, making it virtually impossible for AD to fire him. You can't fire a guy who gets you to your 1st bowl game in 13 years. Horrible look for the school. Kunzer-Murphy extends Hauck and he promptly goes back to two wins.
Sanchez shows steady if unspectacular growth by upping win total each year
3-4-5. Was one win away from bowl eligibility in year 3. Even year two he lost a couple of close games. That team wasn't far from a bowl birth either. Add in his off field work getting the facility going and as much as it looks like the wrong move now Tina extending another year when she did was probably the right play.
So now we have Sanchez flirting with a possible 3 win season. And another year on his contract. This was the year fans and Sanchez targeted as when the program would start to turn the corner. Instead they regressed.
By all accounts UNLV doesn't have the money to buy Sanchez out. Menzies is also probably on the hot seat which complicates things even further (firing 2 coaches in a year is not an enviable place to be) There may be moves going on behind the scenes but I doubt it.
Simply put, UNLV probably can't afford to fire/buyout Sanchez. But the program really can't afford another bad season either.
There is every possibility Sanchez could turn things around next year. He's had some good recruiting classes. The incoming one looks particularly promising. But does anybody here think he can do it? I'm highly skeptical at this point.
If UNLV is counting on the new stadium to fix their attendance woes, it's a horrible strategy. There will be a bump year one. People like shiny new stuff. But there has to be tangible evidence that the product on the field is better or people will stop showing up. There are just to many other options out there for people to spend their money on with the Knights and soon to be the Raiders in town.
This should have been the springboard year. UNLV should be playing in a bowl this year and building some momentum. Next year should have been the 7-5 or 8-4 year where UNLV becomes that sleeping giant that finally wakes up that we've heard about from every coach since Robinson.
Instead we head into another offseason, with a coach heading into his 5th year who is on the hot seat....
