Archive for Football Recruiting

Football Signing Day 2012

Featured, Football Recruiting on February 1st, 2012 1 Comment

Chris Ault can’t wait until the start of spring and summer football practices.
“The competition should be steep and fierce,” the Nevada Wolf Pack head coach said after announcing his 22-player football recruiting class on Wednesday at Legacy Hall. “We already had a nice nucleus coming in but these players we’ve brought in today are going [...]

‘11 Football Big Board

Featured, Football Recruiting on August 7th, 2011 14 Comments

One of the favorite features every year on Silver and Blue Sports is the reason of the annual Football “Big Board”, which features the most recent Wolf Pack recruiting class in a complete, one stop recruiting board.  This is the 3rd release of the Big Board, and fans can even find links to our past [...]

Behind the Mask: Cody Tuttle

Featured, Football Recruiting on July 23rd, 2011 12 Comments

One of the more popular features among Nevada recruits the past few years has been our “Behind the Mask” video segments, which detail the backgrounds of each future Wolf Pack player and how they got started on the gridiron. Westlake (Calif.) high school receiver Cody Tuttle is the subject of our latest feature. Silver and Blue Sports recently caught [...]

Hall running the Pistol

Featured, Football Recruiting on July 15th, 2011 8 Comments

There’s always quite the battle every summer and fall among prep recruits to become the future quarterback under Hall of Fame head coach Chris Ault. There is simply no better coach in the country at teaching the nation’s hottest offensive scheme, the Pistol offense, than Ault, who created the system a handful of years ago.

Big talent in Littleton

Featured, Football Recruiting on July 11th, 2011 6 Comments

Sometimes there are athletes who just exude a lot of talent, yet struggle to get a lot of media recruiting attention.  Nevada has recruited a plethora of those players over the past several years under Hall of Fame head coach Chris Ault, including numerous prospects who have developed into NFL talent.  One player in the [...]

Davis checking out the Pack

Featured, Football Recruiting on July 8th, 2011 7 Comments

One of the most overlooked aspects of the Nevada program the past three years has been the ability for the Pack to control the line of scrimmage.  Nevada has posted Top 25 rushing offenses and rushing defenses each year since 2008, even leading the country in 2009 in rushing offense.

Combs, McIlwain Gallery

Featured, Football Recruiting on July 4th, 2011 No Comments

Silver and Blue Sports spent part of this weekend with two recent Nevada football recruits, both of which are former Modesto Junior College (MJC) prospects.  Devin Combs, a quarterback who originally prepped at Oakdale high school, and Marcus McIlwain, an outside linebacker, who went to Waterford high school, will participate in Nevada’s upcoming fall practice [...]

Q&A with QB Jake Hall

Featured, Football Recruiting on July 3rd, 2011 6 Comments

The University of Nevada football program is known nationally for a number of things, with head coach Chris Ault, one of just two active head coaches enshrined in the Hall of Fame, tops on the list.  One of Coach Ault’s top goals over the past few years was to brand Wolf Pack football to the [...]

Foursome boost Nevada’s ‘11 Class

Featured, Football Recruiting on July 3rd, 2011 8 Comments

As they’ve done each summer of the past several seasons, Nevada football keeps a constant eye out for late additions to their team.  The idea is to find players who can contribute quickly at positions of need, are promising players for the class ahead but are eligible to transfer immediately, plus young men who can [...]

Coulter adds to Nevada WR core

Featured, Football Recruiting on June 29th, 2011 18 Comments

After the loss of 3 senior wide receivers after the 2010 season, plus another projected trio of senior receivers after the upcoming 2011 campaign, restocking Nevada’s talented and extremely productive receiving core is at a premium. That’s why the recent addition of former Tustin high school standout Dominic Coulter is significant news for the Wolf [...]