A few minutes before noon Monday at Desert Pines High School, Tim Hough was standing in a long room that contained a long table outside the principal’s office at Desert Pines High School.
UNLV’s nickelback, a former Desert Pines Jaguar, was holding a gift basket with the following contents: two UNLV football posters, two UNLV T-shirts, two tickets to Saturday’s game against Idaho, one green apple. The apple appeared more ripe than the tickets for the Idaho game.
Hough appeared nervous, as if it were 3rd and long up in Mount Pleasant on Saturday afternoon and Central Michigan had just sent extra wideouts onto the field to run post patterns.