THE FRONT ROW with MARK NELKE: Choate's challenge: Bring back the excitement to Nevada football

All you have to do is watch a few minutes of a Jeff Choate press conference to think, hey, I've seen that energy before. Years later, we saw it at Post Falls High, where he was football coach for five seasons, and athletic director the last two of them. Years later, we saw it again when he returned to the area, as an assistant at Boise State, and then at Washington State, and later at Washington. At Boise State, none other than head coach Chris Petersen marveled about Choate's energy as a special teams coach.