Sports Fodder: Jeff Choate's honeymoon as Nevada Wolf Pack head football coach is now over. The time has come for him to jump off his cliche caravan and simply go out on Saturday and win a football game. No excuses will be accepted.
We don't want to hear this week about how well coached the Eastern Washington Eagles will be on Saturday at Mackay Stadium. We don't want to hear the Eagles are talented and play hard and with intelligence. We certainly don't want to hear that there really is no difference between the Eagles' FCS Big Sky Conference and the Wolf Pack's FBS Mountain West.
All of that will be fine to say after the Pack whips the Eagles on Saturday at Mackay Stadium. We won't be listening anyway. We'll be basking in the glow of a Pack victory and that will be the only acceptable result come Saturday night.
Wolf Pack fans, in case Choate the Throat doesn't know it, are tired of losing to FCS teams. Losses to Idaho and Incarnate Word the last two years in the “Ken Winless Wilson” era are still hanging over the program. If Choate really and truly wants to show Wolf Pack fans that the Winless Wilson years are over, he needs to go out and pound Eastern Washington on Saturday.
It's time for Choate to earn his FBS paycheck and go win a football game, something Winless Wilson never did in two years. This is where we are after three losses in the first four games. Yes, the first three games were fine.
Heck, they were more than fine. The Pack looked like a revitalized team .