Haven't heard any news recently on our portal departures. It sounded 10 days ago like Hall was going to get picked up but I haven't seen any specifics recently. And I've heard nothing on our two bigs that left. Any news?

When we have more excitement in the offseason than while the team is playing.

Big game today. What’s your feeling?

Every time we play there I remember a picture of growling Anthony Marshall vs UNM that someone captioned “ABQ don’t mess with northtown Vegas” (or something to that effect). I can’t find the pic, but it was awesome.

Rebs need some of that tonight.

After a year and 4 months... Rivals/Yahoo customer support finally sent my account details to the "engineers" to figure out why I couldn't log in. I paid for 4 months (Dec 2021 through Mar 2022), and couldn't access the boards. Eventually I had to cancel... but tried to get customer support to fix the issue multiple times throughout 2022, and finally after opening a ticket a few weeks ago, AGAIN, the issue got elevated and fixed... crazy af, but I guess I'm back...what did I miss?

Karson Gordon, QB out of Houston just committed. 3 star and had offers from Texas Tech, Tulane, and Wazzu.

Truly a dual threat qb. Threw for 2345 yards and 28 TD and rushed for 760 and 9 TD.

It looks like it was a pretty good weekend for the coach I wanted fired at season’s end but he has salvaged a nice start to recruiting. My question is what or should I say who is next… Sharp WKU, Allen SUU, Davis UCI or some mystery player yet to be named? I’ve heard about Dedan’s kid potentially being interested but I want to know about transfers with experience that we are interested in… Thoughts

Exciting news used to appear on Rebel-net. Exciting news used to be leaked from some staff members. Exciting news about a T&M bigtime opponent used to happen.
But now days, everything is hush hush. Stupid on Krugers part. We need rumors. We need excitement. Lot’s of visits yesterday and no reports on how things went? Our attendance is abysmal. We must step it up with exciting players and an exciting home schedule. This quiet lack of any information flowing regime is starting to bother me. Me, being a long time Rebel fan and all….

I'm seeing whispers on Twitter that we landed Hill and the Boone twins. Any truth to this?

Any word on this kid? Offered him in July of 22’ 6’7 forward out of Utah. Set to make his decision on Wednesday:

BYU
OU
UNLV
VCU
WSU

Dollar amounts because I’m not certain. I’ve heard a range of numbers that UNLV can afford for NILs. I don’t know how accurate it is.

But even if I take the lowest numbers I’ve heard, no, it’s not some huge number, it’s a drop in the bucket nationally but it’s far more than what we were using last season. If last year had this years plan, the UNM center would be here. There is some money to play with … it will attract good players. Not great players, we aren’t coming close to hitting Miami’s 2.2M per year, not a little bit close … but it’s several times more than last year.

Glad to see they are improving things. I hate the speed in which UNLV moves with nearly everything, this included, it was coming down the pike and UNLV saw it and did little. The center from UNM last season instead of our two statues would have probably given UNLV 3-4-5 more wins alone. But I guess it’s better late than never.

But we ARE going to need ROI. And I do think it’s going to have to be immediate ROI.

Thank you for all of your info, it is much appreciate. I do have one question for you, do you get all of your info at the Gala?

It's halftime now. Brumfield looks bad and I mean really bad. That is all I have to say for now. His job is in serious jeopardy based off of this game. He has looked solid during practice, but its a completely different story today.

Maybe it’s happened through the years and I just didn’t notice, but does the athletic department give blocks of tickets away to local public schools for the lower tier opponents on the schedule? Or maybe certain school organizations like deca or rotc?

I know generally winning cures all, but with the level of general apathy in the last two plus decades, my concern is we’ve skipped two generations of unlv fan adoption. So many were born out of the golden era and unfortunately I think a lot of the hardcore fans from that era that were not teens or young adults, some of those folks pass and we just never recovered them with young fans.

I’m curious if the school maybe doesn’t give a bunch away because they can’t then write them off as a non sale loss or some accounting issue, or they just don’t have the bandwidth to run a ccsd program like that. You would think many freebie tickets would get subsidized by concessions.

Do something for recognition, or an entire class, slap them up on the Jumbotron a number of times, announce them over the PA, let them take all their selfies, and hopefully have an entertaining bball game to make a few trigger their future fandom.

We have tons of pockets to draw from.. CCSD, Nellis AFB, pride organizations, youth sports orgs, Latin chamber, etc, etc.

What do we have to lose, other than the team getting unexpectedly good and having to claw back on giveaways?

We need youth indoctrination!

Remember how I said there could be up to 3 additional visitors in addition to the Boone twins and Hill? Cisse was the first piece of that and I can now confirm that it'll be a full house this weekend.

There are a lot of visits planned, some official, some unofficial but the new unofficial is much more serious than the old unofficial. Before it was just early interests, now they are business.

Last season, UNLV “lost” that big to UNM because of NLI deal. UNLV couldn’t budge much more, there just wasn’t enough. And it’s not like UNM pulverized UNLV’s deal. It was very doable but UNLV’s funding was on fumes.

It appears that is changing, a lot, in large part because of Lon. He’s working behind the scenes with his connections to get more and it can make a pretty big difference. Which is good, you take it wherever you can get it. Kevin helped cool Lon’s seat 15 years ago, now it’s time for Lon to do what he can to help cool Kevin’s seat.

We are, so far, in good positioning with players that would make a difference. However, it’s not over yet. There is concern that once UNLV puts their package together, you now have a going rate and schools in better position can come up with something higher. And UNLV, as of now, doesn’t have a ton of wiggle room though they feel what they’ve put together will be sufficient. But still, nothing is solid, people think it will happen but they realize it’s still potentially open.

There was a player several years ago that was offered x from a power school, very prominent school. UNLV offered the same, a significant amount, higher than any of these UNLV’s NLI’s right now. The family was shopping him around, they were going with the highest bidder. That same school that UNLV didn’t counter, they could have very easily offered more and secured the kid. They didn’t counter because although he was good and would be an addition for them, he wasn’t necessary, they were already loaded. UNLV had 40 minutes and a green light for him to do what he wanted on the court. So he chose UNLV for the same amount of money.

We might get lucky in the same regard with some players. But others may put together a better package and “steal” them late because UNLV won’t have alot left in the tank (as of now, it’s a fluid situation, trying to get more).

But it’s the best thing I’ve heard in a while. Regardless of who we get though, I’m still pretty convinced that whether they are great or mediocre, it’s going to come down to chemistry/unity.

Who are the confirmed visitors this weekend? Hill, Cisse and the Boone’s if I’m not mistaken but who else came in?

Jalen Hill will be visiting UNLV soon.

Excellent movie. It is actually very funny. Great cast and acting too, directed and stars Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Chris Tucker and Jason Bateman. Basically about Nike getting Michael Jordan to sign with them, but lots of cool 80s stuff in it. But the movie opens at Bishop Gorman which was funny. Matt Damon plays Sonny Vaccaro, I remember seeing him at a lot of the UNLV games back in the day. If memory serves he was a strong defender of Tark as well and all the stuff the NCAA did to him. Were we a Nike school at the time or was he at the games just trying to get some of our players once they entered the NBA?

This isnt a secret but Jalen Hill has finally committed. It will be all over social media by the weekend. First domino to fall out of three sure fire ones. It feels like some progress is finally being made

Kahekili Paaoao is staying home! Great early pickup and he will be the defensive leader of this class. Was a silent commit for almost two weeks but took a trip to Arizona, silently committed there, and then flipped back today. Crazy turn of events.​

Kela Moore from Hawaii also committed earlier in the week and he is already working on bringing some of his friends with him.

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UNLV, Colorado, Florida St, Richmond.

Campus game
Stetson at UNLV

Daytona Beach is site of tournament.
No dates yet.

Just saw this on Twitter, and it's a pretty good way to generate money for NIL payments. This particular one is a high end bourbon raffle. They're selling 3000 tickets at $50 a piece, which give you a chance to win some allocated bourbons. If they sell all of the tickets, they'll bring in $150,000 for NIL money. Obviously, the prizes aren't worth anywhere close to 150k, maybe 10-20k or so, so there's a lot of upside to doing this. Plus, the price is low enough for most people to get involved in, with a chance to win some good stuff.

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What do you guys think? Is there anyone doing this sort of stuff at UNLV? Seems like a much better option that just selling shirts and sweatshirts with a players image on them.

Does anyone know the 4 and 5 star former point guards he’s talking about?