Tony Sanchez has been a head coach, just not at the college level.
Mike Bobo has been a college coach, just not the head man.
Now both 41-year-olds are in charge of college football programs that will go against each other this weekend. UNLV (3-6, 2-3 Mountain West) visits Colorado State (4-5, 2-3) at 4 p.m. PST Saturday.
Sanchez has benefited from running a Bishop Gorman High School program the past six seasons like a college one.
"If I had come from, for example, Cal High (in San Ramon, Calif.), I don't know if I would've been ready," Sanchez said.