Rebel1986 said:

The tennis facility donation from the Fertitta family was back in 1993 with a later additional amount for an upgrade, and this is the only building as far as I know that is named after a member of the Fertitta family prior to the football complex. If there are multiple buildings named after the Fertitta family, what buildings are those? I do not know of any past donations made to UNLV football, prior to the one they gave through Coach Sanchez, by the Fertitta family. I do not know of any donations to the football program, prior to that for the football complex, so I am not sure where it comes from that a donations for a new football complex was in play by the Fertitta family?

Where did it come from that they already were going to donate to a new football complex and agreed to donate a large share than what they were planning to donate?

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Ah, I just realized the other building I was thinking about was the new hotel college. The Fertitta's contributed through Station Casinos, and not in their own name.

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Boston Rebel 2 said:

Yeah but attendance that exceeds the dregs of the conference not really a selling point.

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No it's not..But points to how bad the bottom of the MWC is when a school none of us has probably ever heard of in FCS is out drawing them. And they just recently moved up to FCS I believe.

Visiting, Jan. 9th.

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He was pretty awful at USC from the game that I watched him..

On the flip side ,Inthought I’d never see Spencer Rattler in the pros but it’s 2025 so..

Bullmastiff 1 said:

Neither am I, but rumor was they were in conversations with the MWC.

Although this is pretty interesting.

The Texans averaged 18,697 fans per game, which was the fifth-best average in the FCS.

Thats more than UNM, RENO and USU this year.

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Yeah but attendance that exceeds the dregs of the conference not really a selling point.

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I like it. UTEP is lighting it up in recruiting. Can't wait to see this team in the MW.

Their volleyball team is also going to make our new conference better. Between the new MW and the pac we might end up with the better volleyball conference.

Rebel1986 said:

The tennis facility donation from the Fertitta family was back in 1993 with a later additional amount for an upgrade, and this is the only building as far as I know that is named after a member of the Fertitta family prior to the football complex. If there are multiple buildings named after the Fertitta family, what buildings are those? I do not know of any past donations made to UNLV football, prior to the one they gave through Coach Sanchez, by the Fertitta family. I do not know of any donations to the football program, prior to that for the football complex, so I am not sure where it comes from that a donations for a new football complex was in play by the Fertitta family?

Where did it come from that they already were going to donate to a new football complex and agreed to donate a large share than what they were planning to donate?

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Exactly. Before Sanchez the UNLV football infrastructure was a disaster. JRob talked about. So did Sanford. The only improvement to UNLV infrastructure was around 2000 under JRob where UNLV was able to install artificial turf and lights. That was it! The Fertitta complex was designed by the same design firm that built both Gormans and Univerity of Oregon football complex. UNLV’s practice facilities are elite. They are an exact duplication of the UO facilities who were built by Nike. Not my opinion. But the opinion of a former Oregon Duck:

“Third-year defensive back Deommodore Lenoir knows his way around elite facilities, as he spent his college career at Oregon, and he said UNLV stacked up nicely.”

“UNLV, I love their locker room,” Lenoir said. “It reminds me of Oregon’s. The whole setup was exactly how ours was. The facilities are just like Oregon’s, too.”

Next will be an enclosed and air conditioned football field.

Alternatively, maybe his market wasnt great considering he's a 2x transfer who couldn't beat out Madsen and UTEP was the only school offering anything of substance?

If you (in general, not directed at a particular person) won the lottery and had to split it with your mortal enemy, wouldn’t you bro hug and try to mend as you’re working towards collecting the prize?

I’d hug Bull for many millions of dollars, but not for a penny less.

Split our thinking of Revenue Sharing and NIL.

Think of NCAA sports revenue sharing as a salary cap in the NFL. Revenue sharing is a recent addition and it will allow players to be paid a percentage of the revenue brought in by the University Sports program. It's near term cap is $30 million per school.

Think of NIL as the same as commercial endorsements by professional players to companies trying to advertise their products.

Revenue sharing can be and is capped just like a team has their total salary capped in many pro sports. But I don't believe NIL can be capped any more than the NFL could tell Pat Mahomes how much of a deal he can make with AllState.

j. spilotro said:

A lot of people don’t realize that there was animosity on the staff. We didn’t see it because we saw victories.

I don’t think Marion would have been here next year had Odom stayed either. Whether HC or OC somewhere else, I think he wore out his welcome pretty early.

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Are you saying the postgame hugs between Marion and Odom was just for show?

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Loyal Coug1 said:

Yes please. FYI, Highlights from a long interview a couple days ago with WSU's AD, included:

• Budgeting for 105 FB schollies (complete turnaround for the now-seeming dubious report about dropping them to 79
• An alleged $1M enhancement for assistant salaries. Of which so far all of whom are from FCS
• Expansion talks are NOT being pursued until the Pac gets their media deal. Apparently the Pac was waiting for all the Pac and future Pac Bowl victories, especially BSU's tear through the playoffs, to get the media salivating

And to another post, WSU has not cut their athletics budget in half. FY 2025's went from $80-some million to $74M.

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Report about cutting scholarships was dubious.

The cutting of the athletic budget can be viewed as couple ways.

1- WSU is in serious debt and this was just fiscal responsibility on their part

2-WSU is preparing for life in the G5 with smaller media deal and accounting for the in incoming reduction in media funds.

Either way it's smart on their part vs continuing to increase their debt and being forced to make more drastic cuts.

art8 said:

From the outside looking in Marion seemed polar opposite. Marion is a coach cut from the same cloth as many of these social media athletes. I especially felt that way when he stepped on the field with his quarter zip down bearing his dumb ass go go chain. I was a little blown away Odom even allowed that.

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Allowed vs tolerated. The whole mess with Sluka signed Marion’s exit. I think Odom would have gone to a different OC this year if he didn’t see the potential for this season.