It is a defeatist attitude. But they’ve given fans zero to hold onto.
Face it, in terms of (basketball) excitement, attendance, achievement, we are at our lowest continual stretch and still surviving as an athletic department. They don’t HAVE to commit to basketball. They don’t HAVE to pump money into it. If they don’t, who is going to complain? There are very few left. From a nostalgic/historic standpoint, it’s terrible to think about but the past isn’t recent history, it’s ancient history, but most of those from the past are no longer there, no longer interested. It’s a new day, the new history is we aren’t anything but a mediocre program with little fanfare and low expectations. We can meet those demands easily, it’s bare bone minimums.
The crossing of the fingers and allowing for potential “slow growth” to materialize has led to a slow death.
They’ll pop up now and again and grab that 13 seed like most other schools in our conference have done from time to time. And if UNLV wants that to be good enough, it will be good enough.
Soon we will be a one/two bid conference. I don’t see a reason to pump in 2.5M per year for that opportunity. A lot of money for a bad schedule and 3 days in March. The money is better allocated into football. It’s hot, that’s the right time to strike it.
I’d give a two year extension at the same salary for hoops and divert all monies to football.
