Who will have a more impactful influence to the success of our team this season?

No clue as to the reliability of the source.

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I'm curious about everybody's feelings on our new quarterbacks for this coming football season. I know that Sluka's stats from Holy Cross are very impressive. But is he exactly what our football team needs next year? And how do you think that he'll do against the Mountain West's competition?

Admittedly, I'm a casual fan at best. That being said, I love how engrained they are in the community. They seem to embrace Las Vegas while remaining out of trouble (correct me if I'm wrong since I haven't heard about any incidences).

How was the draft and how were the trades for the team? Net positive? Net decline? I know that it's tough to judge until next year's playoffs, but what are your thoughts?

I saw that we lost Logan Thompson, which is a name that I'm aware of. Did we keep the other goalie who helped us with the Cup?

https://www.mlb.com/video/james-mcarthur-in-play-out-s-to-taylor-walls Big Time catch on 7/4 eve glad. to see doing really well after hit with foul ball.plays hard realIze wrong bb but worth a watch on every forum.

In our short time on X it has looked like there are quite a lot of disagreements in the community on sports topics and takes, but some of the exchanges seem very personal? We are not insiders there nor are we a hundred percent tuned into the basketball side of things. It seems like a lot of personal shots come out and arguments begin when basketball is discussed. We saw a discussion about Coach Odom getting a statue here in the future and some people freaked out. Can anyone break it down?

Houston is a very winnable game week one. They’re only predicted to win a few games. We’re a three point dog for entertainment purposes.

Bump into a current UNLV football player semi-regularly. No, not giving names, not giving position, not saying where we bump into each other. It’s not all that important.

I’m a very curious person. I congratulated him on last season and we talked about it up and down the schedule. What it meant to our fans, etc. Now the guy has been here multiple years so he played for both Arroyo and Odom. Which is where my primary interest lies - the differences … since the on the field differences were very obvious to the naked eye and obviously so were the final results.

He DID like Arroyo and staff. And he really likes the current staff. He said a big difference was team wide accountability. He also said the current coaching staff is tight with one another, they’re all on the same page. And that wasn’t so much the case with the previous staff. The demeanor of the staff was much different and it commanded respect without asking for it.

Now this doesn’t seem enlightening me because it mirrors what I thought was going on … based upon how the team was prepared and how they responded. But as I talked about in a post last week, seeing it from the stands or TV is different than seeing it day in and day out up close and your from the stands opinion may be wildly off, no matter how deeply you feel it (Greedy vs Dickel).

I’ll add more to this a little bit later.

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Kinda late for a CC transfer. Adds some depth to the DB position. Lukewarm highlights (in my opinion).

I don't see any UNLV players. https://www.mwcconnection.com/2024/6/27/24186271/mountain-west-basketball-25th-anniversary-team

I have noticed that UNLV is a mile in front of the rest of the MWC in regards to recruiting. UNLV has 9 recruits with an average rating of 2.89 while the next closest is SJSU with 4 recruits and a 2.5 rating. BSU has 6 recruits with a 2.17 rating. I get the feeling that if UNLV can have another great season, then they will leave the rest of the conference in the dust in regards to recruiting. Number 1 priority is to keep Odom!

I’m struggling to pull the trigger on my season tickets for the upcoming season. I keep hearing that the team will compete for the MWC title and is in a strong position to make the NCAA. I struggle to see it. We had the horses last year but didn’t have the coaching to get them there, at least not in the first few months of the season. Having DJ & Whaley back is great. Hill maybe can fulfill his potential. Hicks ought to take at least a small step forward. But I struggle to see the rest of the returnees plus the newcomers making this team a contender for the Dance, not even the MWC title. Knowing DJ is likely gone after this season just makes it tougher to invest in this program yet again. Staff should been all in on getting the best talent around him and swing for the fences this year, but it just looks like a mediocre team on paper. Someone please tell me I’m wrong, that we have more going for us than I understand. Can someone convince me that this is not the year to drop my season tickets?

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I’m reading tea leaves!

UNLV. Butler, Miss st and Big ten Team Nov 29, Arizona tip off, I assume in Phoenix.
So Memphis at home at Creighton so far, Maui in 2025, so KK scheduling like he's going be here, and team will be good?

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Whether or not we attend, at least we are getting invited to the party.

I don’t think that we will win this recruiting battle but how great is it to be in the mix for this level of player? Maybe we become a transfer option.