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Big impact games this weekend

Wyoming v CSU at CSU - CSU is a 9.5 point favorite. Hope to see Wyoming play above themselves. CSU has had enough luck to put up the points they needed for conference games, now hopefully they have some bad luck. Wyoming has had bad luck most of the year, I hope to see that turn around for at least one game!

Kansas v byu at byu. - Not much confidence in a top 10 team considering they are only a 2.5 point favorite at home verse Kansas. Everything has gone right for byu winning several close games that should have been loses, while Kansas has found a way to collapse in the second half for most of the season. byu could have easily been 5-4 instead of 9-0. They are due a loss very soon based on how they have looked over the last month. A Kansas win would look really good for UNLV overall ratings.

Houston v Arizona at Arizona. Arizona is a 1 point favorite at home. This could get Houston back to 5-5 with a winning conference record. Would be a good win for UNLV.

Rebounding

One of the major reasons we suck is rebounding. This year and the three previous years we have been 252nd, 244th, 244th and 123rd in total rebounds per game. You can't be consistently that bad in one the most important aspects of basketball and expect to win. Period. IMO, here are only two reasons this can happen. 1) Not considering toughness in recruiting. 2) Not coaching properly. I think we have both.
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Tier Opportunities

Last year we had 10 tier 1 opportunities - we went 5-5.

This year, although it can change a little as teams get hotter or colder than expected, it looks like we'll have 8 opportunities ( Memphis was a tier 2 ). Mississippi State, Creighton and Dayton ( OOC). USU, Boise, Reno, SDSU and New Mexico ( Conference played away - they are tier 2 at home ).

Quad 4 loss possibilities. Omaha, Pepperdine, Pacific, Fresno( Home and Away), Air Force (Home and Away), Wyoming( Home only) San Jose ( Home and Away). We need to win ALL of these games.

KK has a decent chance to see the Dance if he can get 5 tier 1, win out tier 4 and split the tier 2 and 3.
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"Jet" Thomas and Greg Burrell....

I like certain aspects of the Go-Go offense. But I don't feel the OC is taking advantage of some of UNLV's strengths with it's offensive line and at running back with Jet and Burrell. UNLV should play more smash mouth football in my opinion. The O-line is good and they showed it late at Hawaii with both Jet and Burrell. who averaged 6.5 and 8.5 yds per carry respectively for 160 yds. Both need more touches and straight up smash mouth football. Also, Burrell runs HARD IMO.

RIP JRoB

89 years old complications from Pneumonia.

my brother played for him. He did a lot of good for UNLV football. Won some big games, beat Reno and brought some NFL talent to UNLV and national exposure.

He was very good to my brother and my parents.

Back to back games, cheering hard

It’s tiring, isn’t it?

Basketball … it’s two games, but things look the same. Two games, but feels like an extension of last year and the year before. The offense is a whole lot of dribbling, a whole lot of a system creating no looks, a bland offense with poor movement, few screens of value, we have one really good player.

There’s not a lot of oomph on the team. No go to options besides Dedan. Urgency, aggressiveness seems lax. Again. Good news is we will soon be 5-1 because the home games are against the sisters of the poor. But then the road.

Football, yeah, we are 7-2, that’s awesome at face value. The offense has potential, can strike big and quickly, but overall, it’s oddly inconsistent, doesn’t sustain anything, little fluidity. Overall the run game was really good, almost 300 yards vs Hawaii who does well against the run. Almost 500 yards of total offense.

ST helped win the game (blocked punt/safety), almost lost the game (2 short field goals).

Hajj looked afraid to throw last night. Seemed like he was thinking run even before he dropped back.

We are what we are offensively. Underachieving but with high potential and that’s because the red zone. We have a better shot at scoring a TD from the 50 than the 8. They aren’t going to figure it out, we will continue to struggle there. For all our points this year, a larger than normal percentage have been set up by turnovers and special teams. There has been very little cohesion, smoothness in the offense. It’s jagged and torn with some big plays mixed in.

I don’t know if this team has peaked. Maybe I’m being hypercritical because of heightened expectations. But man, I just don’t like the flow of the offense. And it’s been most of the season, doesn’t seem like a one off.
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