Espn sez it is on mwc network. At least mobile mwc app does not have it. Anyone have a link to the game? Seems we are letting a poor team hang around from reading the play by play.

KenPom has us ranked 113th vs. Pacific 256th

Rebels 71 Pacific 67

Guys, I am just connecting the dots on the CDM hire and there appears to be a ESPN connection to not just to his hire. But even the Big 12 holding its football media day at Allegiant.

1. Who owns the Las Vegas Bowl? Answer: ESPN Events owns and operates the Las Vegas Bowl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Bowl#:~:text=The bowl is owned and operated by ESPN Events.

2. Who hired Las Vegas Bowl Executive Director John Saccenti? Answer: ESPN

https://lvbowl.com/meet-the-staff/​

lvbowl.com

3. Who played a key role in recommending CDM? Answer: John Saccenti

Graney: LV Bowl director influential in getting Dan Mullen to UNLV​

Las Vegas Bowl executive director John Saccenti has known Dan Mullen since 2008. That friendship played a big part in Mullen becoming UNLV’s football coach.
www.reviewjournal.com

4. Who is the new Bowl Season chairman for college football and the 17 Bowl games owned and operated by ESPN? Answer: John Saccenti

Las Vegas Bowl’s Saccenti Takes Over as Bowl Season Chair - Las Vegas Bowl​

LAS VEGAS – Longtime SRS Distribution Las Vegas Bowl executive director John Saccenti has been elevated to chair of the Bowl Season executive committee as part of his ongoing leadership roles with the organization formerly known as the Football Bowl Association. Saccenti (pronounced...
lvbowl.com

Also, John Saccenti is a 1998 UNLV graduate.

Bro, we need Luis Mangione Alabi that he was watching the Football team!!

No question the stakes were higher. But the MWC Championship game had over 3.05 million TV viewers and 2 million more than the year before and set a record. That is a huge jump! So much for the metrics! It just shows that the Boise/UNLV game could have developed into a rivalry that interested a national audience. Also, there wasn’t a P4 team playing to improve the ratings. Just two G5 programs that obtained P4 like ratings.

This article was written before the Mullen hire. It ranks G5 programs most likely to be added to a P4 conference in the future. No Pac7/8 program met the metrics to even be included on this list. One current Mountain West program is ranked #1 on this list of the next G5 team likely be added to a P4 confrerence.

Guys, I am just connecting the dots on the CDM hire and there appears to be a ESPN connection to not just to his hire. But even the Big 12 holding its football media day at Allegiant.

1. Who owns the Las Vegas Bowl? Answer: ESPN Events owns and operates the Las Vegas Bowl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Bowl#:~:text=The bowl is owned and operated by ESPN Events.

2. Who hired Las Vegas Bowl Executive Director John Saccenti? Answer: ESPN

3. Who played a key role in recommending CDM? Answer: John Saccenti

4. Who is the new Bowl Season chairman for college football and the 17 Bowl games owned and operated by ESPN? Answer: John Saccenti

Also, John Saccenti is a 1998 UNLV graduate.



I intended to post this on the football board.

Is it just me or does this years team just feel like an afterthought? No enthusiasm or excitement. The team is vanilla. The coach is a scoop of mayonnaise topped with marshmallows. No buzz or pop. Attendance is embarrassing. It’s like every time they show CKK on the sidelines you can see a black robed figure sitting in the stands behind him holding a scythe waiting for the season to end to show him out the back door. Just me?

I knew very little to nothing about who UNLV should hire… I mostly listened to voices here and took my cues there.

That this hire made all of you happy, made me happy, and that’s almost all I needed.

But the fact that UNLV has stepped up and invested and taken a serious approach to the program, is the biggest thing to me.

I don’t care if it somehow bombs… UNLV pushed the chips in and that’s all I care about.

Louisiana Tech selected to play Army.

Just saw this news.

Important dates for Mullen and his eventual crew. It took Coach Odom 34 days to put his staff together (with the Petrino fiasco). At the time I thought that was fast but looking at the dates below Mullen I hope Mullen can get his Coordinators and assistants in faster than that. Last I looked Barry already flipped 5 of our recent recruits.

• Transfer Portal: Monday, December 9–Saturday, December 28, 2024 ( entry date )
  
  
• Traditional Signing Period: Wednesday, February 5–Tuesday, April 1, 2025
  
  
• Dead period: August 1–31, 2024, except for the 48 hours before a home game in August and September 1–2 through the 48 hours after the game
  
  
• Evaluation period: September 1–December 1, 2024, with 33 evaluation days
  
  
• Contact period: January 6–February 1, 2025, except for a quiet period on January 12 and a dead period from January 13–15
  
  
• Quiet period: March 3–April 14, 2025

No surprise that Hunter won it.

I didn’t watch the broadcast or any interviews but I hope that the committee cited our first game against Jeanty as to why he didn’t win it.

I know I’m petty …

With the latest Purdue stuff … makes me wonder what Purdue is offering if it’s true … I know the number UNLV was able to make it up to, plus or minus a little.

I’ll start making calls in an hour or so …

If I’m not mistaken, the buyout would only be 2-3 million to UNLV.

This wouldn’t surprise me in the least bit, the system is set up so the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, players and coaches … if there’s an uprising from the bottom, they get easily plucked up by the rich ones. And it’s going to happen when success is found.

UNLV is going to have to be one of those programs that makes successive strong hires to maintain anything and develop into something concrete.

The problem is, we do the opposite. We rarely one time it let alone back to back to back it.

We knew this day might come, all just hoping it wouldn’t be this quickly.

I think we are going to see things get crazy with Mullen and the portal. I think we will get the best quarterback we’ve had in years and we will score points next year. Can’t wait to see who the DC is …

I know almost all of us despise the guy we loved two weeks ago, but he elevated expectations a lot. And UNLV responded with what appears to be a great hire. THAT is why you don’t poo poo expectations, THAT’S why you don’t chew on “slow growth” … if you invite complacency that is what you’ll get and it invites widespread apathy.

If/when KK doesn’t make it, we should have a good indication if hoops is (essentially) done. If they go slow growth, they don’t care. That’s what slow growth means. We no longer give a sht.

So what’s this mean for football? I think a “bad season” is 500 and bowl eligibility. I think a “good season” is this year or above. And I’d say most times, we will dabble between those two.

But with the conference changes, UNLV should Gonzaga the new conference. That might not mean the biggest bowls. Hell, even with Gonzaga’s dominance, it wasn’t until relatively recently that they “broke through” ….

I’m excited, I absolutely, positively welcome the heightened expectations, I don’t like aiming low and hitting near the target, aim for the toughest target and come close - it yields better results. Higher disappointment …. But better results and visions of more.

I like feeling it, whether good and bad - I don’t like just tolerating it something.

3 million people with a peak of 3.5 million. It would have been higher if closer at the half. But that is up from 1 million last year. That is a damn good rating. Goes to show if the teams are good people will watch even the MWC.

11:30 at the Football Complex


Will it be televised anywhere?

Watch swamp kings.

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HARD WORK, better be prepared to go all in and double your time in the weight room. Mullen talks a good game but make no mistake he’s all about outworking the other teams. Funny they mentioned Gainesville-Vegas.

Interesting listen.

Likely won't sway anyone's opinions, but informative take by a coach that actually faced Odom. Interviewed by Cofield.


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Dude scrubbed every mention of Unlv from his profile 4 secs after Odom took the Purdue job.

Now on his way out he’s blocking all the rebel fans.

The question people will be asking in another year. This is funny, he has attracted some MAC interest and that is it. Maybe we will play him next year vs Miami, OH.

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Seems really quiet right now with signing day tomorrow. Saw Brad Odom tweeted about 2 joining the program and Covington announced. Hoping tomorrow ends up being a good day even though team is prepping for Friday.