http://grantland.com/the-triangle/tony-sanchez-unlv-bishop-gorman-historic-high-school-college-coaching-jump/

Good read.

Will be interesting to see how he does.

Hopefully he will have better success than Gerry Faust and Todd Dodge.

That's one Mes'can assed name.

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That's one Mes'can assed name.

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I bet hes dirty.

Very good read. I hope he turns it around. He needs to call the chobbit and schedule some games with the stronghorns. It might get UNLV more recruiting power after beating chollie.

I could see this as the guy to get them a couple winning seasons and then parlay that into a major conference coaching gig. This guys has the potential to be a good college coach

UNLV is an athletic hole. He needs to change a lot about the culture to get talent to come there. Luckly there is more talent coming out of So Cal than the major programs have room for. Still UNR has more money, better coaching, better facilities, and an all around better culture.

^ he's got the resources to change the facilities / culture there...seemingly.

If you watch any of the series about Snoop's son, you can get an idea of what this coach is all about. Snoop-a-loop junior got his skinny ar$e suspended by the coach for the first playoff game of the season for missing a day of practice without notice. Maybe The Chobbit could learn a thing or two from this guy!

BG absolutely killed it last year and ended up ranked either #1 or #2 in the country depending on what service you look at. They've won 6 State Championships in a row which is impressive, even by Nevada standards. That being said, they are a private school that recruits the area's top players by offering scholarships (no different that what many of the Texas Private schools do). Given that most of the LV High Schools are complete drug-infested dumps, I don't think it is a hard sell to the area's top athletes.

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^ he's got the resources to change the facilities / culture there...seemingly.

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Just like we have the resources to change A&M basketball but that still hasn't put butts in the seats.

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BG absolutely killed it last year and ended up ranked either #1 or #2 in the country depending on what service you look at. They've won 6 State Championships in a row which is impressive, even by Nevada standards. That being said, they are a private school that recruits the area's top players by offering scholarships (no different that what many of the Texas Private schools do). Given that most of the LV High Schools are complete drug-infested dumps, I don't think it is a hard sell to the area's top athletes.

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Of course you are going to have a great program when you have all the talent in a major metro area. Imagine what a Austin or Fort Worth (close to the same size) team would look like if it was just the most talented kids in the city.
Hell, lets use North East Dallas. What would the all star team from Allen, Frisco, Plano and McKinney have looked like this year? Or any year for that matter?
The problem for Sanchez will be replicating that from scratch at UNLV? Can he draw the talent required to do what he did at BG? I think not.

Worked out fine back in the day for Bum Phillips (coached at Nederland HS, and PN-G HS, as well as TAMU)... worked out fine for Art Briles recently. Sure the same for many between. Good luck to him.

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What would the all star team from Allen, Frisco, Plano and McKinney have looked like this year?

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They won the 6A Division I title, and the year before that too.

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UNLV is an athletic hole.

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^This... UNLV is basically a commuter school for people that want a degree in the hospitality industry. I went to two games at Sam Boyd and it was absolutely depressing. It made a TCU 2nd Half crowd look like.. well... Kyle Field.

When they hosted the MWC Basketball Tourney at Thomas & Mack (where booze were sold during games), it was one of the strangest environments I have ever witnessed... it was basically the LDS Schools (Utah, Utah State) vs the Drunk Schools (UNLV, Colorado State, SJS). The LDS School Fans envoked the power of HeyZeus, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon as they adomnished the heathens and their sinful ways through what could only be described as talk, there was no trash about it. Meanwhile, the Drunk School Fans envoked the "spirit" of the 80-Proof Holy Water as they proceeded to string together obscenities (some which I'd never heard of) and "sister-lover" jokes into a 3-hour-long stance against clean living.

I left feeling completely entertained, extremely violated, and slightly wasted. If only they served booze at Kyle Field... nevermind, bad idea!!!!!

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it was basically the LDS Schools (Utah, Utah State) vs the Drunk Schools (UNLV, Colorado State, SJS). The LDS School Fans envoked the power of HeyZeus, Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon as they adomnished the heathens and their sinful ways through what could only be described as talk, there was no trash about it. Meanwhile, the Drunk School Fans envoked the "spirit" of the 80-Proof Holy Water as they proceeded to string together obscenities (some which I'd never heard of) and "sister-lover" jokes into a 3-hour-long stance against clean living

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I don't care for hyperbole but this is one of the best descriptions of any event at any time in the history of the universe.

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^ he's got the resources to change the facilities / culture there...seemingly.

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Just like we have the resources to change A&M basketball but that still hasn't put butts in the seats.

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BG absolutely killed it last year and ended up ranked either #1 or #2 in the country depending on what service you look at. They've won 6 State Championships in a row which is impressive, even by Nevada standards. That being said, they are a private school that recruits the area's top players by offering scholarships (no different that what many of the Texas Private schools do). Given that most of the LV High Schools are complete drug-infested dumps, I don't think it is a hard sell to the area's top athletes.

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Of course you are going to have a great program when you have all the talent in a major metro area. Imagine what a Austin or Fort Worth (close to the same size) team would look like if it was just the most talented kids in the city.
Hell, lets use North East Dallas. What would the all star team from Allen, Frisco, Plano and McKinney have looked like this year? Or any year for that matter?
The problem for Sanchez will be replicating that from scratch at UNLV? Can he draw the talent required to do what he did at BG? I think not.

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The resources for TAMU basketball have still lead to us having some great seasons during the Turgeon / BCG years, and a pretty good one this year, along with a top 5 recruiting finish. Attendance will catch up when the results are more consistent.


All Sanchez needs to do is be competitive, they ain't asking him to win the conference. This is the Mountain West we are talking about after all, not a power 5 conference. He most definitely needs to recruit better, but the focus is on developing the players and changing the culture, which with the resources he has he should turn the program around inside and out in the future. If he can do this, power 5 programs will be lining up for him. All I'm saying is that if there's a guy with the know-how to turn this program around, especially in that region, it's probably Sanchez. Of course, it remains to be seen.

Does anyone know of any high school coach in recent times who went directly from HS to being a successful FBS head coach.

There are may college head coaches and assistants , even successful ones, who started as high school coaches but I cannot recall one who made the jump directly from high school to being a head coach.

Bum was never a college head coach, only an assistant and Briles spent 3 years or so at Tech before he became HC at Uof H.

Emory went from HS to being an assistant at t.u. before he was hired at A&M.

I wonder if football is a money maker or loser at a school like UNLV.

I just don't see it being profitable, and I'm not sure it is necessary.

The deck has been heavily stacked in Sanchez's favor because Bishop Gorman athletes are generally much better than their competition. It's rarely a fair fight in anything that they do, football in particular, so it's hard to know how good of a coach he really is. As for the UNLV football program, I'm of the opinion that they should get rid of it completely and focus on baseball and basketball instead. They have pretty decent facilities and a good history in those areas, but football will likely never be routinely competitive at a high level because of the current nature of the NCAA. I just can't see it happening.

Going from a high school head coach jumping directly to fbs head coach is challenging. Hopefully he does well.