WYNN or Dye said:

This, was on the front page of ESPN website.
Take, it for what it's worth.

College football takeaways: Group of 5 teams show out, SEC dominates early CFP race

Our college football experts break down key storylines and takeaways from Week 3.

www.espn.com

"UNLV's sales pitch to the expanding Pac 12 is looking pretty strong."

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Masked_rebel said:

Do you think AI knows that Fresno and Boise are not in fact states in the USA?

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Rebel1986 said:

I have noticed that on Stubhub there are tickets listed for over $300 for a single seat with highest current price at $1,161 per ticket. Viagogo has a highest price of $1,256 per ticket; Vivid has a maximum price of $387 per ticket; Ticketmaster has a maximum price of $456 per ticket; Ticket Center has a maximum price of $229 per ticket; Gametime has a maximum price of $245 per ticket; Mega Seat has a maximum price of $359 per seat; At least Seat Geek has the highest price at $178 per ticket.

The bottom line is that in many cases you can buy season tickets for below what people are trying to get for a single seas. Priority sideline club 1 tickets are $417 for the remaining 5 games. I hope fans are going directly to UNLV first before overpaying for secondary market tickets when there are an unlimited number of seats that can open up if they sell out the first level.

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Mojo702 said:

Idk why the Big 12 doesn't add UNLV & AFA to make an 18 team, 2 division conference. The split between east & west schools via the map makes sense.

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Boston Rebel 2 said:

It definitely gives us something to play for in our game against Georgia next week.

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j. spilotro said:

Well … gotta be honest. When Utah Tech tied the game at 7 with that broken coverage, and then they scored on the next two possessions, I thought it was over. UNLV was fortunate to string together 8 straight touchdowns to eke out the victory.

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Bullmastiff 1 said:

Simply don't want them when they could probably get Memphis and Tulane.

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Bullmastiff 1 said:

Why would anybody leave the AAC if their media deal is better..?

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j. spilotro said:

Good hires matter.

Bad hires slow kill.

Successive bad hires disappear you.

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Boston Rebel 2 said:

If we go to CUSA we can use Chaparral's field they aren't using it on Saturday's.

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Stoker016 said:

I wonder what the logistics are to open more seats. Surely it isnt a spur of the moment thing they can just do a day or 2 in advance with workers, etc. I feel like that Syracuse game would be a good game to open another 10-15k or so seats. Game is already about sold out. Large # of syracuse fans coming. Should we beat Fresno, we will be top 25 in all polls. Syracuse should be top 25 as well. Great opportunity to get to 40k+ fans and a lot of those average fans out to a game who's interest is peaked witha top 25 matchup both ways. Could be a huge opportunity for the program.

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WarthogRebel said:

How much does it cost us to play at Allegiant? If we drop to CUSA I can't believe we'd see attendance above the mid teens. That would be ridiculous in that stadium. We may want to hold off on the transfer of the Silver Bowl to the county.

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j. spilotro said:

Seriously, he didn't seem like the stoner or bender type, more Birkenstocks and latte type - but maybe he got a bushel of shrooms?

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Couev said:

Long term there's so many moving pieces it's impossible to figure out what's going to happen. So much will depend on whether or not the ACC survives as those rats try and abandon that ship.

My gut tells me that the new PAC wanted to get into the biggest markets they could from the MWC and they're hoping that CSU's reach is deeper into the Denver (#17 Nielson/#32 FCC market) then realistically it is right now. San Diego State (#30/#51) and Fresno-Visalia (#52/#72) are some of the larger western markets with no competing professional franchises--so in theory, better market penetration. And they've been pretty consistently good over the past 5 years in football (SDSU has been very good in basketball). Boise is a pick not for market size (#97/NR), but for their sports acumen. Historically been a good to excellent football program who play bigger teams on the road and perform and a consistently good to very good hoops program.

So, if that's their plan, then the next 2 teams should be Memphis (#50/#26) and one of the Texas schools (UTSA (#31/#45), Rice (#6/#15), North Texas (#5/#12) from the AAC with the undersanding that your Texas market penetration for those schools is not going to be as good (the AAC is only 10 million withdrawal fee with 2 years notice, whereas MWC schools are 17 million + 10 million to go to the PAC). I would also not be surprised to see Tulane (#52/#31) or South Florida (#31/#51) taken instead---and maybe more than 2 as they are pretty cheap in comparison.

The Vegas market is not bad (#40/NR) but it's very comparable to UAB (#46/40) and with probably lower market penetration because of how many transplants we have and the pro franchises--while Birmingham is going to have a lot of Bama and Auburn fans they still will have more eyes on college football TV sets--Hell a terrible UAB team that was almost cut for cost over 5 years has outdrawn UNLV significantly.

While we're putting together a good resume over the last 2 years in football our recent history is not good. Our basketball program right now is a hair above average. We have a very nice stadium--but LVCVA doesn't care about UNLV. If they can book a title game and bring in 30-40k people to the strip they will do that every time. They aren't going to turn away the business to give UNLV any bargaining chips.

I think our window is small, but still open. We need to start raising money to pay the 18 million buy out and move forward understanding that we either pay that or we actually get left behind for forever. I think the ACC court cases settling will determine when the next big reshuffling occurs. We can't operate under the assumption that anyone is going to help us with the exit fees--hell, it's even unclear how much the PAC2 is going to help the currently departing programs.

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