New stadium would make UNLV's Tony Sanchez feel like $1 billion

New stadium would make UNLV's Tony Sanchez feel like $1 billion

UNLV Athletics Tina Kunzer-Murphy, right, introduced Tony Sanchez as UNLV‘s Men‘s football coach, Thursday, Dec. 11,2014, at Stan Fulton Building. (Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal)Perhaps nobody was more thrilled Thursday about the proposal by the Las Vegas Sands Corp. to build a $1 billion domed stadium with at least 65,000 seats near UNLV that would be home to the school's football team — and possibly the Oakland Raiders — than Tony Sanchez.

The second-year Rebels football coach said having what would essentially be an on-campus stadium on 42 acres UNLV recently purchased on Tropicana Avenue east of Koval Lane would be a…