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<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>2004 Preview: Nevada Wolf Pack</span>
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Believe it or not, there was a time when Nevada football didn't suck.
Actually, it hasn't been horrible over the last few years, but the Wolf Pack used to be a yearly winner. From 1979 to 1991, Nevada was a regular in the I-AA playoffs before moving up a level and going to two Las Vegas Bowl games in three years. That was when Chris Ault was coaching.
Ault stepped down from what turned out to be a College Football Hall of Fame career, and now returns to resurrect the program he made such a success. His presence will have to work wonders since there are several concerns. The defense needs players to be able to go well with the new attacking style, while the offense needs receivers to properly run the Air Wolf attack. The games should be fun to watch with tons of scoring and tons of big plays, both good and bad. If nothing else, there's a buzz that the program will go from being mediocre to a WAC contender, and Ault should be able to do that with a little bit of time.
The Schedule: Nevada wants to be a player in the WAC race, but this isn't necessarily the schedule to do it going on the road to face Hawaii and Fresno State. Getting Boise State at the finish is no prize. The non-conference slate is sneaky hard going on the road to deal with good Mountain West teams San Diego State and UNLV
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