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For the soccer fans. Looks like USA hired Mauricio Pochettino as the next coach. Meh kind of news but 2026 WC is in the US. Big news? Thoughts?

I’m not talking about an assumption here.

Is having Nicco Fertitta as an assistant paying divdends? I mean, are the Fertitta’s taking special interest, are they backing heavily?

I’d assume so … but you gotta be careful about assumptions. Does anyone know for certain? Whether it’s NIL help, help with salaries, etc????

If they want to be our football T Boone’s, I’m all for it.

I mean, they got Sanchez the job and some rope … what about kin?

Why are you guys not talking about the game. You pu$$ies. This game might get UNLV rank.

I saw a post earlier stating that the fans get too much blame. Which may be true. But if you look close, our fans have been below average that is for sure.

Las Vegas is the second best media market in the conference. Third if you want to count San Jose State. But they have such little market penetration and they are not a candidate for power conference expansion, that we will not include them.

Last year football finished first in the conference, made the MW championship for the first time ever, and made it to a bowl game with their best record since the 80's.

Our home attendance ranked 6th in the league last season.

Well we have been bad, and it took fans time to buy in. Sure. Well, there was excitement coming into this season. We go on the road and blowout a big 12 team. We get a ton of publicity, some votes in the polls, and became the favorite for the playoff spot in one game.

How do we follow that up with our home opener? One where we gave away 7200 tickets to students, 3/4 of those being freebies to anyone who wanted them ( not just students)

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Fresno is coming off a loss, where the score was more lopsided than than game to what could be a heavily flawed Michigan team. Playing a nobody school.
SDSU was bad last year, bringing a new coach. Has not looked good so far this year. But Oregon State is a good draw
Wyoming, a tiny market, got trounced by ASU, a middle to bottom PAC 12 team in recent years, though they may end up being pretty good this year. Playing a FCS team.

Then you look at basketball last season. we finished 4th in the conference standings, but 7th in attendance. Again one of the biggest markets in the conference.

Truth is our fans kinda suck. A lot of competition in Vegas, but it is a big market and UNLV offers sports at a huge discount compared to other schools.

The old fans are spoiled and will only show up for big games against name opponents in both sports. Or they are just apathetic and don't care enough to go. We think we deserve better than what we have shown because what Tark 30+ years ago. We are too good for our conference, yet haven't ever won it in major sports in 20 years now. Spoiled or apathetic, still both suck.

If Tark didn't have that success, we would likely have better fan support now because expectations would be more realistic. I know, I know. Tark built this university, and he did. Truth is, who knows where we would be today without him. But it is logical to believe that we would be in the MW at this point, just due to the fact that we are one of 2 state schools and are in a big market. Just the local population in itself would lend itself to having us in the conference by now. When the MW added SJSU, they sucked in both sports then.

This is important because the football team, the investment and the results, are getting us into expansion conversations. But regardless of our market size, we need more butts in seats and eyeballs on TV games for them to seriously consider us. As of now, we are not a good candidate, because all of the local college sports fans are watching different teams. Adding UNLV will not move the needle and is a poor investment.

We need money, but fans don't want to pay for tickets. We expect local businesses and hotels to sponsor the school or contribute to NIL, but why should they if they no there isn't much local interest. It doesn't make financial sense, and hotels are corporate owned now.

Bottom line, now is the time to try to get as many people as you know to go to games and watch on TV. Hopefully both. At least if you care at all about UNLV sports, which is the point of these boards.

More interest means more money for the school to pay to keep coaches, or gasp, buy the basketball coach that many want. It also may get local business attention which can also lead to more revenue and better coaches and players.

UNLV has made some terrible, terrible decisions. This is true. But fan support has been well below recent results.

Rebels are in the Top 25 according to the Newest USA Today Rankings, # 23.

Let’s get that trash talk going!!

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I found this article interesting. Gives some insight into what Gloria Nevarez is thinking and other stuff regarding realignment. I like the part about giving the boot to schools that won't commit in terms of budget.

I wouldn’t say there’s a lot of Kool Aid drinking otherwise the stands would be more full.

But among the people that follow them closely year in and year out, I do think there’s a lot of Kool Aid drinking early on.

We beat/dominated a decent team on the road and smacked around a horrible school. A lot to see still, they really haven’t proven much though. Eye test is pretty good in the early going.

But talks of expanded playoff, undefeated/1 loss … I think that’s over the top. It’s like the “we’re back” posts in hoops when we win at the Pit or win the 76 classic with a mediocre field.

If I start thinking that, it probably wouldn’t be until the first week of October.

That said, we aren’t often 2-0, and we rarely “look” this good to start the season. So there is reason for optimism.

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I’m good with low 60’s for now considering that we are usually in the triple digits.

Commits?
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today is the day that Computers were made aware!!

Not bad. IF we can keep it competitive. i still think we are a player or 2 on the offense and defensive side of the ball from being a true TOP 25.

IMO, my seat is reasonably priced for a premium stadium and a team that is doing well.

Concessions, otoh, are beyond my ability to reasonably pay. Is this because I'm so old I can remember $ 3.00 beer at a Buffalo Bills game? Or has the cost of concessions gotten out of control?

Depending on what happens against Oregon this next game, Oregon State very likely will play UNLV while ranked in the top 25 if they can beat Oregon in a game they are an underdog of 6 points (I think Oregon is way overrated). Oregon State is solidly favored over Purdue, Colorado State, and Nevada which are the games prior to playing UNLV which would make them 6-0 against UNLV.

I was going to post a "G5 Games to Watch" thread yesterday and ran out of time before games started. But it turned into a heck of a day. These are stream of consciousness thoughts that were not necessarily in game order or fully watched games.

• UNLV did what was expected. Potential loss of Marsel McDuffie is a problem. (Knee?)
• Boise State was back and forth with Oregon all game, losing on a walk off field goal. Two special teams TD for Oregon were the clear difference here. BSU lane discipline, angles, tackling on SPTMS were... not good. Also, they have a top 3 RB in the nation and Koetter went in the air with 2 timeouts and 3.5+ minutes to play. 3 n out and Oregon never gave them the ball back. BSU had every opportunity to win this game.
• Liberty absolutely stole one from Sanchez and NMSU. NMSU lead wire to wire except the last 65 seconds, the most important 65 seconds. NMSU lead 17-9 in the 4th quarter. A QB hit with no ball protection lead to a defensive TD for Liberty (17-15 NMSU). NMSU TD to put the lead to 9. Liberty rattles off 2 TD in the final 5:12. In their last two drives, NMSU had 9 plays for 14 yards in under 3 minutes. A complete implosion at the end.
• We all saw Northern Illinois's game-winning FG at Notre Dame. Of course, nationally this will probably get viewed as ND playing an awful game and NIU getting lucky. Notre Dame is a chosen few, they can't actually be overrated. I didn't watch any of that game except the field goal heard 'round the Bend. NIU outgained ND by over 100 and had a better 3rd down conversion rate. ND 2 interceptions thrown was the difference here.
• Early 4th quarter, South Florida trailed at Alabama by 21-16. Bama finished with 3 straight TDs to win 42-16.
• Tulane lead K-State most of the game. K-State offensive TD early 4th quarter to tie it up at 27, then a defensive TD to go up 34-27. Tulane had a TD taken off for OPI, and finished the game throwing a pick in the end zone; they got as far as the 2 yard line going in.
• I-35 Rivalry - Texas State steamrolled UTSA in San Marcos(?). Texas State had some G5 hype this season. They play ASU next week. I know it's just ASU, but that very well could be the only L on their schedule. Pay attention to Texas State as a possible "if they don't stumble, they get the spot" team.
• There are a few remaining undefeateds not named in the American. I don't expect 'em to remain undefeated long.
• Other than NMSU frustrations, C-USA went as expected. Except UTEP losing to Southern Utah. SUU earned the United Athletic Conference (UAC; it's the conference resulting the merged football programs from the WAC and ASUN, since neither had enough remaining teams to be eligible for a playoff spot without merging) it's first ever FBS win. Obviously not the first for SUU, we know about 12-13 years ago they beat UNLV.
• Bowling Green made a game of it with Penn State. BGSU lead 24-20 at half, but was outscored 14-3 in the second half.
• FCS St. Francis beat Kent State in the MAC.
• USU looks bad. Sure, they played USC. But they look bad. Also, Maiava played in the end of 3rd quarter and into 4th quarter for USC. Had a couple nice throws, good numbers for limited action. His TD run was pretty solid. Escaped some pressure, evaded a tackle or two, visible intentional ball protection, and found a huge mid-field lane.
• Idaho put Wyoming. The difference between Big Sky Idaho, MWC Wyoming, MWC BSU, and Big 10 Oregon is weird, and small. Jason Eck is a heckuva coach for Idaho. He's a Wisconsin alum, so getting to his alma mater might be a while. Idaho has made the FCS playoffs in both of his seasons as Vandals head man. Expect him to be a G5 head coach in the next couple seasons. Basically whenever he wants to.
• SJSU wins at Air Force 17-7. The first 21 points of this game scored in the first quarter. 17 punts, 3 TOD, 3 INT, and a partridge in a pear tree.
• Reno defense looked much better vs GASO than did Boise State's. But Reno has no Jeanty and lost 20-17. Lewis looks like a functional quarterback. Which is more than I could say of late.
• SDSU still sucks. 21-0 home loss to Oregon State
• Washington State convincing win over Texas Tech

Extra notes:

• Houston looked much better against Oklahoma than it did against UNLV, losing 16-12 in Norman. Houston QB was 24-28 for 280 and 1TD/1INT
• Kansas L on the road to Illinois. IMO a bummer. They won't be ranked, and they will have a bitter taste. Friday night can't come soon enough.
• Kyle McCord and Syracuse are much better than I thought they'd be. I have concerns about McCord picking apart our defense in a few weeks, especially with possibility that McDuffie is out.

Gonna post here on famous people who died.

Today’s first victim.

Shock G from Digital Underground. He sang Humpty Dance and introduced the world to 2pac Shakur.

I have one song that I own from Digitial Underground.

9 minutes of Doowhatyoulike.

Anyone else concerned about the availability of McDuffie for the KU game? Our favorite reporter, Joe Arrigo, doesn't believe he will be ready to suit up on Friday and I think that would be a huge loss for us. Getting pressure on Daniels will be key. Thoughts?

20,000

Over/under for Utah Tech attendance at allegiant.

I am stupidity that that Raiders best option is Minshew.
The Patriots starts of the Mayo tenure with a win over the Joe Burrows Cincinnati Bengals.
The jaguars nearly beat Miami.
The NY Giants sucks ass while Saquan Barkley rocks it for another team

Oregon beat Idaho 24-14. Boise won at Georgia Southern 56-45.

Unless Oregon didn't bring their varsity team to the game, then they are more beatable than ever. Not that Boise showed that they are world beaters. Both are hyped based on their names versus their products on the field. Oregon is currently favored -19.5. I don't see them winning by that margin, if they win.

I think that Boise, should they win, will become the top G5 and ranked about 18.