UNLV Wants WHO?

Last September, I, along with about 55,000 of you out there, stood in stunned silence as the UNLV Rebels shocked the Pac-10 and knocked off Arizona State 23-20 in OT at Sun Devil Stadium.

It was supposed to be a landmark win for UNLV head coach Mike Sanford as he turned that program around.

Turns out that it didn’t work out quite that way in Sin City. Sanford is out and the Rebels are looking for a new coach.

On that note, turnabout is fair play, apparently.

Names are floating around in connection to the UNLV opening. College Football Talk says the program is taking a hard look at Tyrone Willingham.

Meanwhile, Tom Dienhart of Yahoo! Sports has some lesser heralded names attached to the job. Most of you have never heard of Andy Ludwig (despite his Cal offense tearing us up on Halloween), Rob Ianello, Mark Banker or Steve Johns.

I’m assuming that most of you have heard of Dirk Koetter.

After a dynamite first year with the Jacksonville Jaguars where his team went 11-5 and his quarterback, David Garrard, was the NFL’s darling, the Jags offense scoring offense has sputtered to the bottom third of the NFL. Wholesale changes are the rumor in North Florida (among other moving-van related topics) and if that’s the case, Koetter could find himself on the outs.

Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic: our boy Dirk back on the West Coast. Keep yourselves from getting verklempt.

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