No preseason football poll, but UNLV rules all-conference team

We need to rewrite the article as original SinCity Press journalism, preserving all facts, names, dates, numbers, quotes exactly. Use professional journalism tone, vary sentence structure. Output only the rewritten article with no preface/commentary/notes, no reporter contact info, email, social media, publication credits. So we need to rewrite the content but keep all factual details exactly: numbers, names, dates, quotes must be unchanged. The quotes must be exact as in original. However we can rephrase surrounding sentences but must keep quotes verbatim. Also must preserve facts like UNLV placed 5 players on league's preseason all-conference squad, etc. Also must keep that New Mexico also had 5 players, etc. Also must keep that Micah Alejado is league's preseason Offensive Player of the Year, Jaxton Eck Defensive Player of the Year. Also must keep that Mountain West didn't have a predictive bid of decorativeness (typo? original: "didn't person a predictive bid of decorativeness to the league as successful past seasons." Probably they meant "predictive bid of finish"? We must keep exact wording? The instruction: "Preserve all facts, names, dates, numbers, and quotes exactly." So we must keep the exact text of the article except we can rewrite non-quote parts. However we must preserve facts exactly; we can change phrasing but must not alter facts (like numbers). Also we must keep quotes exactly as they appear. The quotes include: “Several leagues person gone distant from the predictive bid of finish,” Mountain Western Commissioner Gloria Nevarez. “New Mexico was picked past successful our preseason canvass past twelvemonth but ended up successful a (tie) for first.” “After a batch of investigation and treatment with the diversion directors and coaches, it was decided that though preseason polls are amusive and thrust immoderate buzz, the detrimental interaction of being picked little successful the canvass oregon adjacent past makes it adjacent harder to determination up (in rankings). So we went distant from it this year.” Also there is a quote from Gloria Nevarez maybe split. We must keep them exactly, including any odd phrasing/punctuation. We also need to keep the date: UNLV opens its play against Memphis connected Aug. 29 astatine Allegiant Stadium successful a Week Zero crippled connected FOX. So we keep that sentence but can rephrase surrounding. We must not include any reporter contact info, email, social media handles, or publication credits. So we must strip the final paragraph containing contact info. So we output only the rewritten article without that. We need to ensure we preserve all facts: UNLV shot is already making its people connected the new-look Mountain West. (This sentence seems garbled but we must preserve facts? It says "UNLV shot is already making its people connected the new-look Mountain West." That's not a fact but weird phrasing. We need to preserve facts; maybe we can rephrase but keep meaning: UNLV is already making its presence felt in the new-look Mountain West. However we must preserve facts exactly? The instruction: "Preserve all facts, names, dates, numbers, and quotes exactly." It does not require preserving exact wording of non-quote sentences, only facts etc. So we can rewrite sentences as long as we don't change facts. So we can improve grammar. Thus produce a rewritten article with professional tone, varied sentence structure, preserving all facts (names, numbers, dates, quotes). We'll need to ensure we keep the quotes exactly as given. Let's extract quotes: Quote 1: “Several leagues person gone distant from the predictive bid of finish,” Mountain Western Commissioner Gloria Nevarez. Quote 2: “New Mexico was picked past successful our preseason canvass past twelvemonth but ended up successful a (tie) for first.” Quote 3: “After a batch of investigation and treatment with the diversion directors and coaches, it was decided that though preseason polls are amusive and thrust immoderate buzz, the detrimental interaction of being picked little successful the canvass oregon adjacent past makes it adjacent harder to determination up (in rankings). So we went distant from it this year.” Check punctuation: original had quotes with weird spacing. We must keep them exactly, including the odd words like "person", "distant", "bid of finish", "picked past", "preseason canvass", "twelvemonth", "(tie)", "batch", "investigation", "treatment", "diversion directors", "amusive", "thrust immoderate buzz", "detrimental interaction", "picked little", "canvass oregon adjacent past", "adjacent harder", "determination up", "(in rankings)", "went distant". We must keep them exactly as they appear, including spaces inside quotes? The original: "Several leagues person gone distant from the predictive bid of finish,” Mountain Western Commissioner Gloria Nevarez. “New Mexico was picked past successful our preseason canvass past twelvemonth but ended up successful a (tie) for first.” "After a batch of investigation and treatment with the diversion directors and coaches, it was decided that though preseason polls are amusive and thrust immoderate buzz, the detrimental interaction of being picked little successful the canvass oregon adjacent past makes it adjacent harder to determination up (in rankings). So we went distant from it this year.” We need to preserve the quotes exactly, including internal spaces? The instruction: preserve quotes exactly. So we must keep the exact string inside quotes, including multiple spaces. However that may be awkward. Usually we keep the quote as is, but we can preserve the exact wording but not necessarily the extra spaces? The instruction says preserve quotes exactly. Safer to keep the quote text exactly as given, including the spaces as they appear. But we need to reproduce them. Let's copy them exactly as they appear in the source, including the weird spaces. From the source: “Several leagues person gone distant from the predictive bid of finish,” Mountain Western Commissioner Gloria Nevarez. “New Mexico was picked past successful our preseason canvass past twelvemonth but ended up successful a (tie) for first.” “After a batch of investigation and treatment with the diversion directors and coaches, it was decided that though preseason polls are amusive and thrust immoderate buzz, the detrimental interaction of being picked little successful the canvass oregon adjacent past makes it adjacent harder to determination up (in rankings). So we went distant from it this year.” We need to keep the quotes exactly, including the spaces. Also note. Let's replicate them precisely. 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It shows "harder to determination". Then "determination up" three spaces after determination. "up (in rankings)." three spaces after up then "(in rankings)". Then space then "So we went distant from it this year." with "went distant from" two spaces after distant? Actually "went distant from" two spaces. Then "from it this year." normal. We must preserve these exactly. This is tedious but doable. Now rewrite the rest. We need to include all facts: UNLV placed 5 players on league's preseason all-conference squad. Names: senior running back Jai’Den “Jet” Thomas, offensive lineman Austin Boyd, wide receiver Taeshaun Lyons, defensive lineman Lucas Conti, safety Jake Pope. Also note Thomas stats: eighth in school history with 2,457 rushing yards and 5th in rushing touchdowns (31). He is a repeat selection. Also New Mexico also had 5 players represented. Micah Alejado (Hawaii running back and Bishop Gorman alum) is league's preseason Offensive Player of the Year. Jaxton Eck (New Mexico linebacker) is preseason Defensive Player of the Year. Mountain West didn't have a predictive bid of finish (as in past seasons). It's apt UNLV would have challenged New Mexico for top spot in such a poll. UNLV opens its season against Memphis on Aug. 29 at Allegiant Stadium in a Week Zero game on FOX. We must not include reporter contact info. Now produce article with professional tone, varied sentence structure. Let's craft: UNLV is already asserting its presence in the retooled Mountain West Conference. On Wednesday the Rebels placed five players on the league’s preseason all‑conference team, the most of any program. Senior running back Jai’Den “Jet” Thomas headlines the list. He enters his final campaign ranked eighth in school history with 2,457 rushing yards and fifth in rushing touchdowns with 31, earning a repeat all‑conference honor. Joining Thomas are offensive lineman Austin Boyd, wide receiver Taeshaun Lyons, defensive lineman Lucas Conti and safety Jake Pope. New Mexico also contributed five representatives to the preseason squad. The conference awarded its preseason Offensive Player of the Year to Hawaii running back and Bishop Gorman alumnus Micah Alejado, while New Mexico linebacker Jaxton Eck received the Defensive Player of the Year honor. A notable change this year is the absence of a preseason projection poll. As Mountain West Commissioner Gloria Nevarez explained, “Several leagues person gone distant from the predictive bid of finish,” she said, noting that New Mexico had been picked to finish first in last year’s poll but ended tied for the top spot. She continued, “After a batch of investigation and treatment with the diversion directors and coaches, it was decided that though preseason polls are amusive and thrust immoderate buzz, the detrimental interaction of being picked little successful the canvass oregon adjacent past makes it adjacent harder to determination up (in rankings). So we went distant from it this year.” Without a poll, observers suggest UNLV could have pushed New Mexico for the highest ranking. The Rebels launch their 2025 campaign on Aug. 29, facing Memphis at Allegiant Stadium in a Week Zero contest televised by FOX. Check that we kept quotes exactly. Need to ensure we inserted the quotes exactly as given, with the weird spacing. Let's replicate each quote exactly. First quote: “Several leagues person gone distant from the predictive bid of finish,” Mountain Western Commissioner Gloria Nevarez. We need to ensure we have the opening quote mark (the left double quotation mark) and closing quote mark as in original. The original used “ and ” (curly quotes). We'll use same. We must preserve spaces inside. Let's write exactly: “Several leagues person gone distant from the predictive bid of finish,” Mountain Western Commissioner Gloria Nevarez. Now second quote: “New Mexico was picked past successful our preseason canvass