New UNLV basketball coach Chris Beard enters Mendenhall Center for a press conference on Friday, April 8,2016. Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @jlscheid
New UNLV basketball coach Chris Beard speaks during a a press conference at Mendenhall Center on Friday, April 8,2016. Jeff Scheid/Las Vegas Review-Journal Follow @jlscheid
There is hope for UNLV basketball today.
Once the silly marathon that was a Board of Regents meeting to approve the contract of a head coach had passed the two-hour mark on Friday with the speed of a tortoise on NyQuil, once 15 members of the public offered their opinions, once I had come to the conclusion yet again that regents should be appointed and not elected, once a press conference was finally held to make things official, once the president hiring the coach called him by the wrong name, this fact rang true: The most impressive person throughout the entire process was Chris Beard.