True but different time and different sport and arguably the best time for college basketball ever.
Plus CSUF had Ced and Pacific had Dell Demps😎
You know as well as I do that in LV if you run out NM St, Albeliene Christian and Wyoming every week people will be sitting at home or at a bar watching compelling games instead. There are no Big Monday 9pm starts where 19k is a sellout
Club Ced lol. I am still in touch w. him every now & then.
The town is also now 2.25MM instead of the 700k it was back then.
I agree about the MWC not being as strong as the PAC, but at the end of the day nobody is watching or interested in going to say UNLV vs. any of the MWC teams except maybe Boise for football. PAC are basically in the big pot of G teams. Like UNLV did in the past, play a tough OOC schedule, win those games, run your conference and you'll be in the mix.
Nationally, this has been a PR disaster for us. If he was shaking us down we should have paid. If we promised him we should have paid. Either way, the down side of not paying was far....... greater than just writing the check. Sometimes in life if you are right or wrong it doesn't make any difference. Sometimes the truth doesn't matter and our sports leadership ( be it the University or the collective) can't give flamethrowers like Finebaum etc. gasoline to go after us. The entire thing was FUBAR.
It seems very likely that Sluka tried to raise the agreed upon price.
Holdouts, threats, and power plays cannot be tolerated. You can't set that precedent, even if you have a donor willing to step up and pay him. Can't let that happen.
