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We used to double some of these schools’ max capacity.

There will be a shuffling of Basketball power rankings among G5 conferences and here's why.

Revenue sharing starts in 90 days. It allows teams to share up to $ 20 million in revenue with their players. P4 conference teams are almost unanimous in their declaration they will spend the entire $ 20 million from the get go. The teams have the $$ to do it. Rutgers has the lowest revenue of all the P4 teams and it is still $ 110 million. Most have committed to a 78% football, 18% men's basketball and 4% to the rest of the programs formula that will share $3.6 with their 13 basketball scholarship players.

So how does this affect Mid-Major basketball? Most mid major teams don't have near the revenue to share that a P4 team has. UNLV brings in between $ 48 Mill and $ 50 Mil. Wyoming brings in $ 43 Mil. Less than 1/2 the lowest revenue of the P4's.

To make things more interesting mid-majors are split into essentially two groups. Those with football and those without. THOSE WITHOUT FOOTBALL CAN GIVE NEARLY THEIR ENTIRE REVENUE SPLIT TO BASKETBALL.

Take USF as an example. Their entire '24 revenue was $ 28 million. Their men's and women's teams each generated nearly equal amounts. Let us say they share 1/4 of their revenue with players for a total of $ 7 million with each of their men's and women's BB teams getting $ 3.5 mil and $ 2.5 each with the rest going to their other sports. Magically, USF can now match P4 inputs and compete. If UNLV can also afford a 1/4 split then $ 9.5 mil goes to football, $ 1.5 men's BB, $ 500 to women's BB and $ 500 to all the rest on the sports. We will be woefully behind the P4 and NON football conferences.

America East, Atlantic Sun, Big East, Big West, Horizon, MAAC, MAC, Summit, WCC. These are the D1 conferences that don't have football. IMO, the Big East will be the winner with way more $$ per team available for BB. Seton Hall brings in the lowest amount of revenue for sports in the Big East at $ 34 million. Working the same % model as above they will have between $ 4 mil and $ 5 mil for men's BB. Villanova's revenue sits at $ 68 million. They are in a position to spend $ 9+ million on their men's players.

And all this is before NIL.

There’s going to be alot of rumors. I’d suggest keeping them in this one thread for organization purposes.

I can pin it up top until a hire is made, just add on rumors and opinions here.

The very primary choice that I first heard a couple months ago was Wade, which would be doable by way of his buyout and an expected 2M salary.

But NC State can go much higher and it’s a stable, prime basketball conference.

I’ve also heard Crean has some legitimacy.

Those aren’t rumors.

I have heard nothing other than those two so far mentioned. The others on peoples wish list, Marshall and such, I haven’t heard mentioned.

I’m just hopeful that some options that have been mentioned, such as Turner or Pasternak, aren’t real. I haven’t heard their names mentioned as candidates, just names pointed out by posters as possibilities.

And nothing major.

I’m glad the RS kid is staying, we need some parts and we don’t know if he’s part of the suckass .500 that bolted or if he would have been one of the better ones. Those that left, quite frankly, I don’t care. They were part of the problem, not part of any solution or if they were, they are still replaceable because they were a group that could only win half their games.

I would have liked to see Pape return though. Even though he’s raw and one dimensional, make it defensively around the rim or a dead eye shooter. Both in a back up role if they are one dimensional.

The kid that’s coming in, highlight films look great as they always do, Tyrin Jones I think. But I’m told by people that have seen him that he’s athletic but soft. So we will see.

A lot of work to be done, I did want the Euro big, he looked like he could be a weapon in this league and beyond.

Overall, I’d say this hire, by people’s early reactions, people in the know - it’s pretty varied. Nothing spectacular, nothing bad, but no real excitement or oomph from these people. I think a lot of it has to do with overall NIL. NIL replaced recruiting ability and that’s one of the areas where Pastner was pretty good, at least a major upgrade over Kruger. But it’s kind of negated and replaced by NIL, which is good from a MWC standpoint but not so good nationally. So, in theory, we SHOULD be able to compete in the MWC, however, we should have been able to compete the last god knows how many years and it didn’t happen. Will that change? I’m not certain it will.

There are people that can aid and make things easier, not necessarily with an influx of cash, I’m talking influence, personal interest … from the ones I was hoping it might come from, it won’t. No sabotage or anything like that, just a big not interested. These are behind the scenes type of people. They haven’t been in a corner for a long time anyway, and even when they are, it’s typically split, some do help, some don’t help and at times, they actually hurt things. I just see this grouping, call them old school type of people, as kind of over it, wake me when you got something we can support and help. This hire didn’t do it, last hire, the two hires before … Rice had some help, but had some sabotage, which was similar in a Bayno regard.

The paragraph above? That’s one of the few ways UNLV is very unique. A lot of people don’t know it, don’t understand it. And I can understand why they don’t. Because it’s NOT like this at other places.

That’s a primary reason I like a splash hire, a “name”, but a name with actual substance. You’ll never satisfy everyone. But if you could get somebody with, for arguments sake, a 70% approval rating, I think you could make things go. But this is a very tough job.

Hustlin’ Rebels Selected Fourth In MW Preseason Poll

Urban Meyer reflects on his long-standing relationship with Dan Mullen and praises his football intellect as Mullen takes over as UNLV's new head coach.

The UNLV baseball team opened their home series against in-state rival UNR with a 10-4 win on Friday night at Earl E. Wilson Stadium. This series is part of the Silver State Series presented by America First Credit Union.

It's happening on UNLV's campus at the Myron Partridge Track Stadium. Field events start Friday at noon, and running events at 4:15 p.m., with both continuing Saturday.

The spring game will not happen due to Allegiant not being available!

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6'8 225lbs Freshman Guard from France
15.5 Pts/G , 8 Rebounds

Has he entered the Portal?

It looks like they are willing to be independent if need be. Interesting move. They are seemingly all in

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From CDM.....

"Mullen first became impressed with UNLV while in Las Vegas in 2023 to attend former Florida quarterback Tim Tebow's College Football Hall of Fame induction. He couldn't believe the $35 million Fertitta Football Complex that opened in 2019 and knew the Rebels spent gamedays at an NFL stadium.

“This (practice) facility was so much better than anything I had when I took the Mississippi State job,” Mullen said. “I had to build the facility there. Florida had nothing like this. Not even close to this.”

Maybe at least tickets for a free food item and drink?

It is kind of the old school Vegas way

Is he still signed?

This is a good one. I won't say too much but there were a lot of false promises last year. He's locked in now.

Check out Augmon, LJ, and Anderson Hunt talking about it