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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/aug/29/rebels-implode-season-opening-walloping-minnesota/
Bobby Hauck looked up at the scoreboard at one point in the fourth quarter Thursday night and saw his Rebels leading total yardage by nearly 200 yards and down more than 20 where it counts.
“Statistics are irrelevant,” said UNLV’s coach, and he has a 51-23 loss to Minnesota at TCF Bank Stadium to prove it.
New year, same mistakes and painfully familiar result. UNLV’s 2013 season started with a bang and crashed with a thud before the fourth quarter, leaving the Rebels to climb their airplane steps for a 23rd straight trip home as losers.
In the second quarter there were many plays that seemed so important at the time. A dropped pass. A questionable play call on second down. Those are things worth dissecting in a close game but they matter not in a beat down like the one Minnesota (1-0) laid on UNLV (0-1).
“The errors exploded into big plays,” said sophomore quarterback Nick Sherry, who finished 35-of-50 for 226 yards and a pair of both touchdowns and interceptions.
UNLV’s defense, so maligned over the past few years, was good. Not great but good enough to stay in the game, which at this stage is all you can ask of that group. They showed promise..
But for every positive thing like that UNLV tossed on one side of a see-saw it heaped even more negative on the other side until the whole thing catapulted the team back to Las Vegas.
After Cornett’s score, kicker Nolan Kohorst’s extra-point attempt was blocked. After Sherry’s great fourth-down touchdown pass to Devante Davis in the second quarter, freshman Nicolai Bornand kicked the ball out of bounds.
Over the final 31:45, the Rebels were outscored 41-10 and the defense was only responsible for 20 of those. Even 14 of those points were meaningless to the result.
Bobby Hauck looked up at the scoreboard at one point in the fourth quarter Thursday night and saw his Rebels leading total yardage by nearly 200 yards and down more than 20 where it counts.
“Statistics are irrelevant,” said UNLV’s coach, and he has a 51-23 loss to Minnesota at TCF Bank Stadium to prove it.
New year, same mistakes and painfully familiar result. UNLV’s 2013 season started with a bang and crashed with a thud before the fourth quarter, leaving the Rebels to climb their airplane steps for a 23rd straight trip home as losers.
In the second quarter there were many plays that seemed so important at the time. A dropped pass. A questionable play call on second down. Those are things worth dissecting in a close game but they matter not in a beat down like the one Minnesota (1-0) laid on UNLV (0-1).
“The errors exploded into big plays,” said sophomore quarterback Nick Sherry, who finished 35-of-50 for 226 yards and a pair of both touchdowns and interceptions.
UNLV’s defense, so maligned over the past few years, was good. Not great but good enough to stay in the game, which at this stage is all you can ask of that group. They showed promise..
But for every positive thing like that UNLV tossed on one side of a see-saw it heaped even more negative on the other side until the whole thing catapulted the team back to Las Vegas.
After Cornett’s score, kicker Nolan Kohorst’s extra-point attempt was blocked. After Sherry’s great fourth-down touchdown pass to Devante Davis in the second quarter, freshman Nicolai Bornand kicked the ball out of bounds.
Over the final 31:45, the Rebels were outscored 41-10 and the defense was only responsible for 20 of those. Even 14 of those points were meaningless to the result.
