My blog has been dormant since the NFL draft but I thought I revive it for the Mountain West Conference Football Media Days.

I left for Vegas Sunday morning with my 12-year-old son, Devin. Three years ago, I took my 15-year-old son, Casey, to the MWC meetings. So I guess it’s kind of a right of passage.

I got out on the freeway in my brand-new rental car before I realized it was the only vehicle built in the past 15 years that doesn’t have cruise control. The place where I rented the car isn’t open on Sundays. so I was stuck. I’ve got a bad right ankle (from falling off a roof when I was in college) so if you see me in the next couple of days and I’m limping, you’ll know why. I won’t tell which genius rental company I used, but its colors are green and white and the name rhymes with “Genterprise.”

The MWC meetings are at the Green Valley Ranch Resort and Casino, one of those impossibly lavish places you only find in Las Vegas (it’s actually in Henderson). They’ve got a really cool pool with actual sand on one end. Of course, a small box of Altoids is $4 in your room, so there’s the trade-off.

I’ve already seen KSL’s Tom Kirkland, KFNZ’s Kevin Graham, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham, UNLV coach Mike Sanford, BYU linebacker Bryan Kehl and BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall. Bronco and Kyle did their annual three minutes with Kirkland on SportsBeat Sunday night. I took Devin to watch and introduced him to Bronco.

Devin said, "Your team rocks hard!" Bronco smiled and said, "Thank you very much." OK, so I'm raising BYU football fans. So sue me.

Everything gets started Monday morning.