His team is under .500 plus he has played like 5 or 6 years. They were invited to some other tourney last year also with a record und .500 which the lost in the 1st game. Cheated my ass.

Vic is gone. Not too many are surprised with this one either. I wonder where he could/would go

If we need a coach, the Princeton's coach is for real.

When kids start transferring, typically people point fingers at coaches for not retaining them or not having the power or personality or capturing the trust of a player. It will always blamed on coaching. That’s just the way it works. This year, last year, 10 years ago, 20 years ago.

Sometimes coaches don’t want kids back and help them land elsewhere. That’s true.

I’m not looking to protect or make excuses for KK or any other coach - but it is not their “fault”. The environment of college sports is so much different and I’m sorry, kids have changed a lot. Values, patience, etc - they’re off. Freshman think they should have star power. Guy A in front of you who is clearly better and more valuable sucks in your eyes and you should be getting more minutes; the coach is stupid for not seeing it. Player circles can be toxic and self serving. Far more times than not, it’s the players’ “fault”.

I see both sides, coaches used to have every ounce of power and it’s shifted the other way. Only the most established programs, the most stable actually, have a stronger balance of that.

We aren’t there and I don’t know that we ever will be.

So don’t be surprised and instead of crapping on KK for not keeping kids (I don’t think he’s done a great job so far with the program, but I’m joy going to blame him for every single thing when this is more of a systemic problem that’s difficult to control), I’d say you should take a step back and see things for as they actually are.

Losing kids at a more rapid rate started during Lon’s era, didn’t afflict Spoon or Bayno as much. But it’s more a current climate thing than it is a coaching thing. Kids have more options than every before and they’re using them, usually shortsightedly, at least in my opinion, in most cases.

Hired coach March 21, 2022, 2 returning players sweet 16!

I know MWC is brutal, since UNLV is in select company of not making NCAA with AFA/SJST now.

Convention center was around 6300, I believe UNLV would have actually filled what twice last yr?

At least I saw Duke yesterday, and 5 Duke fans yelling mis-match at start, leaving silently with 2 min to go, lol

Down 8 at the half but the game really isn't that close. Michigan is bigger and faster. Pushing their defense out way past the arc.

From coachingchanges so take with a grain of salt:

We are told (as unbelievable as it sounds) that Barret Peery kissed Dusty Womble’s ass so incredibly well during his one year in Lubbock that he is a serious candidate to replace Mark Adams as the Texas Tech head coach.

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I’m just trying to think why would he snitch out his parents because of the whole getting corn rows. Now his parents are gonna be targets..

It’s always great to see them lose!

Given the conference we are in, what do you consider conference success?

I was thinking about it this morning. When UNLV won it all, I think the conference might have been 6-2 (UNLV 6-0). I consider that UNLV success on a national stage, but certainly not BWC success.

So it got me thinking, what is conference success?

I think it’s one win for every bid and the wins are among more than one team. For instance, if SDSU were to win it all, the MWC would be 6-3, I would consider that SDSU success but it doesn’t say much about the conference. If SDSU bows out after the S16, and say USU won a game, UNR and Boise losing in first round, thats 3 wins, 4 teams, 2 teams with some success. I still wouldn’t call that strong. If SDSU and USU both made the S16, 4 wins, 4 bids, among two teams. I’d call that a success. Or 3 bids win a game and SDSU makes the S16, I’d consider that a big success (for the mountain west, not if you are the B12 or ACC or B10).

How do you guys view it?

What we’ve been doing the past couple of years isn’t remotely close to working even a little bit. Doesn’t matter if you think KK should be fired or given an extension. You can’t tell me that nearly every aspect of our total game isn’t disjointed for large portions of games unless we play a JV squad. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you though your brain may be.

I’m hopeful that CKK is reassessing everything about his approach to this program because what’s being done isn’t working. It’s just not. It shouldn’t work to a degree for Miles but not here. It shouldn’t work for a large degree for Odom but not here. Odom did step into something mediocre but stable. Miles stepped into a team that existed in name only.

He has resources, he has his dad who should be a fantastic mentor, though Lon really never had to deal with the portal to this level. And that’s something new. But the guy knows program building and stability.

Now I’m not as close as I used to be, some contacts have fallen by the wayside because they don’t care anymore, they don’t want to waste time and energy any longer. Still some remain. Anyway, I’m hearing that there is a high level of stubbornness, doing it my way, I know how this needs to go …. And that’s great if it’s working, it’s the best way to establish a new foundation and identity. If it’s not working, it’s a problem. A great strength can be taking the right advice and implementing it.

In a way, it reminds me of Marcus Banks. Nobody could tell him what to do, and I mean nobody. He was going to do it his way. He couldn’t be budged from that. Not even by the NBA coaches. As stubborn as a player can be. So did it work? Well, he was a lottery pick, he made his money, he didn’t compromise what he believed in and he “made it”. Would he have been a better player and lasted longer if he was more coachable? I think so but can’t be sure, but in the end, he did it his way and found success. I feel like his strong stubbornness was his greatest strength (he was slighted as a Vegas prep kid) and it was his greatness weakness.

My guess is if we don’t see some rather large changes … and we keep using the same philosophy through recruiting, offensive and defensive schemes, scheduling … we are going to have results in a similar zip code. Which I can’t see heading into year four. I feel like it’s now or never for KK.

First Off: I'm not a financial advisor and this isn't a recommendation.

Hopefully, you all have followed the SVB banking crisis. If not, check out the article below. I hope that anyone with more than $ 250,000 in a regional or local bank has already taken steps to take your FDIC uninsured money out and move it to a MUCH larger bank. May end up nothing at all, but if it is, some higher net-worth individuals and some businesses could be in trouble.

I dont know anything about FDU. Or Purdue for that matter. And before I get into this, I'll say I understand keeping Kruger for year 3 and I also would have understood if they had fired him.

Fairlight Dickinson was a 4-win team last year.

This is Tobin Anderson's first year as head coach there.

They went 20-15, 10-6 in a conference called the NEC.

They knocked off Purdue.

Not advocating to hire the guy, just one of those things that we will be looking around forever thinking "why can't we win a game in the mwc tourney if this team can win the NEC and beat Purdue?"

Also, good for them. Awesome to watch. Coach's interview post fame with TNT was excellent.

With the 60 day window this year there has been a rush for players to enter, especially for schools whose season is complete. I am surprised no UNLV player has put their name in already, odds are someone will leave just surprised they didn’t put it in right away. With 60 day limit time does matter to get all possible destinations also schools are going to lock up spots more quickly than the past.

Current targets that have been linked with UNLV on Twitter are underwhelming to be impact transfers. Typically you don’t see players going up a level being impacts and that is what UNLV is attached with mostly (Robert Jennings from Texas Tech, the exception). My guess is over the next week as teams are knocked out we will be linked more with P5 players looking to move on. I think the lower level players we are linked with right now are more feelers but I wouldn’t see any of them committing to UNLV soon (at least I hope not).

Nevada and Utah St are done! The MLC Mountain Least Conference, strikes again!

As title states, former Runnin Rebel Caleb Grill got kicked off of the team today. I wonder what happened...It had to be pretty bad for a big contributor like him to get the boot.

Peery was the head coach at CSI. IMO the best player on the CSI roster is Hasan Abdul-Hakim who is also ranked a top 10 juco. I would hope UNLV is in on his recruiting. Because IMO he would be the perfect fit at 6’8” to play the 3.

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I’m gonna go. It’s about the same product minus the dunking. Luis Rodriguez and Muoka are the only dudes that can dunk.

I think women’s basketball needs some love.

I’ll probably find upper seats and do my thang..if you know what I mean.

It has a chance!

Would anyone be interested in a March Madness Bracket? I host one every year with my friends so I'm just extending the invite here. Let me know!

That was as predictable as a sunrise. ASU doubling them up. I swear I think this conference is gonna put up a goose egg in the playoffs.

Waddilove is saying KK is looking at Mike Mitchell (Pepperdine) point guard. His stats are really good for a Fresh. Point.

This brings up the question. Should the program wait on DT or should we get a point ( not necessarily the kid above) while we can?

I'm thinking Gilbert is our backup. Thomas would be a "lights out" pickup and almost guaranteed to start. If we took another point now, where would he fit? But, we are desperate for a point, and if we wait we may not get anywhere near what we want. Also, if we got DT we'd be using a potential slot on a third point that could go to a fortified front court.

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I hope to see some of y'all in the bracket. Happy March Madness!

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Good additions to the staff. LFG!

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