Is anyone else worried that the defense is starting to look like last years defense at the end of the year? Besides the turnovers we didn’t stop a lot tonight .

Not McDonalds.

Still has a couple more weeks I believe. I think it’s a lower leg fracture, I believe fibula.

I’m not a doc, but I’d think long term it’s better than an ACL or the like.

Somebody correct me if they’ve heard differently.

I think Mani is now injured? I thought he filled in pretty well in McDuffie’s absence.

I got asked this question when I walked into a gas station today here in Austin TX- by a guy checking out that glanced over and saw my UNLV shirt (as one should always rock, but much easier recently).
Me: proudly answered with a big smile - ‘Yess Sirrr!
Guy: responded with a chuckle - ‘nice… wow
Me: ‘keeping it going
Guy: ‘ya man, keep it going

It hit me as I was walking out…
He asked… ‘Did you guys win again?’

Rebs 34 - USU 24

It looks like the ticket sales for the UNLV v Boise State game are going quicker than those from the Syracuse game. Not sure if this means a larger number of UNLV fans, or if Boise State is bringing a large number of fans to Las Vegas? My best guess is there are around 2,500 tickets remaining in the 100 section with 15 days still left to sell tickets. Based on the last game attendance, that would put the number at around 29K+ tickets already for the game. Beat Utah State and Oregon State and UNLV will likely have their biggest home attendance game in their history, with a really good shot at 35K-40K attendance. Sucks that the game will be on CBSSN. I wonder if there is any chance the game would get switched to a larger network?

Looks like the Beavers were caught looking ahead to next week? Down 42-30. WTF

I’m guessing UNLV a 3/4 point road favorite?

Best counter r all time!!

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If we can get past this season without losing Odom I’ll feel a lot better about the long term prospects of our program. We lose a ton of talent on offense and defense this year, including a good part of our OL which has played together for a few seasons. Odom and crew have shown to be excellent evaluators of talent in the portal but they’ll be replacing a good amount of the team. Point being if Odom has offers, and I’m sure he will, staring at the possibility of a slightly down year at UNLV or going to a P4 job may be too attractive to pass up. Layer on top of that the conf changes and it may all add up to tilting the balance toward his departure. I sure hope not but this off-season could be the turning point good or bad.

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I knew we'd get to this point.

Little preview for Oregon State, note that is pre reno.

Offense: 2082 yards of offense. 1413 rushing, 669 passing.

The Beavers' offense is run-heavy, with an emphasis on establishing the run to set up the pass. Looking at the numbers pre reno, Oregon state had 2/3rds of their plays be runs. Those runs come from a combination of QB Gevani McCoy, RBs Anthony Hankerson, and Jamious Griffin. OSU has been averaging 264.4 yards on the ground game while keeping 152 yards in the air.

Gevani McCoy has been a competent signal caller for Oregon yielding 697 yards through the air with a 62.6% completion rate. While at a glance those numbers seem reasonable, the production hasn’t really beared fruit. So far McCoy has only managed 2 passing touchdowns (3 on the ground) this season with 5 interceptions. By contrast, the departed Rebel QB that we don’t speak of threw 6 TDs in 318 yards.

The Beavers have a strong offensive line with players like Joshua Gray, Gerad Christian-Lichtenhan, and Van Wells. The average height and weight of the starting five is 6'5" and 322 pounds. Expect this line to be good at run blocking schemes; but to struggle in pass protection. Shut down the run, win the game.

Defense: 4-2-5 base allowed 1794 yards, 891 rushing and 961 passing.

Insert default paragraph on the secondary and DL woes from UNLV’s Sanchez era. There is almost non existent pass rush, and coverage on deep plays are lacking. Statistically, their defense is better at stopping the run than the pass. But that’s about the only positive stat.

UNLV Vs PAC so far 109 to 48.

That our kicker has 50 plus range.

If anyone on the USU team is not religious, this is a good time to find some higher being to believe in.

I called up directv today to add the cbssn ch to watch the UNLV games over the next month, they have a special running. First month free and the $14 a month after that.
So watch the UNLV games and then cancel at the end of Nov 🤷‍♂️

My favourite dish. I was in Vegas for a week looking around and cannot find this dish. The one who said they make it, taste terrible. The dish is a complex mixture of soup and stir fried.
The Dish: called seafood clay pot with fermented fish. The fermented fish is absolutely critical critical ingredient. The seafood part is not important. The tofu, pork and mushrooms are important.
Boston have the best restaurant that make this this dish on Boylston Street.

I just read today that the MWC Headquarters is moving to Las Vegas and leaving Colorado Springs. As soon as their HQ lease ends they will make the move and plan on staying at least through 2032.

In the "Agreement" we signed to stay in the MW. The $3.5 million media distribution will not change. If they have to the MW will utilize "a combination of revenue sources to maintain that distribution".

The MW members will have no obligations financially if they are picked up by a P4 conference.

Finance: They say they will be getting close to $150 million from the exiting schools and the poaching fees. So the order of payouts will look like this:

1. $61 million divided and given to the schools in the uneven percentages.
2. $18 million held in reserve for recruiting new schools
3. $21 million divided and given to the schools in the same uneven percentages.
4. Lawyers fees will be paid.
5. Anything left after the lawyers get paid will be divided as such: 15.83 percent for the six full members and 5 percent to Hawaii.

The article says that the payouts will begin on July 1, 2026 when the traitors leave and pay their exit fees. Interesting because I thought we were getting our share next year.

Edit: Link to the article: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/58...tain-west-memo-realignment-unlv/?redirected=1

It is hard to tell for sure how many tickets are left, but considering they have removed the season ticket option, I am assuming that the tickets shown on the UNLVtickets site are the only tickets available. Currently there are only light pink areas left (few seats), as well as numerous sections that are fully sold out. There are also another +/- 12 sections with between 4-50 seats left. My guess is there are around 2-3K seats left in the bottom section at this time. This is of course with the assumption that UNLV currently has all the available tickets listed. Hopefully a late run on tickets will sell out most of what is left in the bottom section. A walk up crowd could also help out.

As a side note, there were at least 4-6 sections listed for the Fresno State game as still having lots of tickets left compared to zero this time around.

The UNLV v Syracuse game on FS1 had a viewership of 698K. In comparison the game against Fresno State on FS1 had 174K viewers; The game on ESPN v Kansas had 1.32 million viewers; The game verse Houston on FS1 had 172K viewers. ESPN ratings are always much higher than FS1, so the game against Kansas can not really be compared, but compared to the other FS1 games, this was a nice ratings boost for UNLV. There have been a total of 22 games listed on FS1 through this season. The UNLV v Syracuse game was the 4th highest rated game on FS1. The highest rated FS1 game was Rutgers v Nebraska 1.03 million viewers. The Washington State v Boise State game has 535 K viewers. The average number of viewers for games on FS1 was 426K per game.

From what I can read regarding Syracuse overall viewership and ACC network ratings, they averaged around 703K viewers last year without a single game outside of the ACC network prior to UNLV, and only two games listed on national networks for the remainder of the year. Last year most of there games had under 500K viewers with the exception of a couple of big games that had over a million viewers.

In comparison to other games of the day: Pittsburgh v North Carolina on ESPN2 had 645K viewers; West Virginia v Oklahoma State on ESPN2 had 634K viewers; Purdue Wisconsin on BTN had 588K viewers; USC v Minnesota on BTN had 701K viewers; Rutgers v Nebraska on FS1 had 1.03 million viewers.

It should also be noted that UNLV v Syracuse game was going up against:
Michigan State v Oregon on FOX had 2.84 million viewers
Houston v TCU on ESPN 1.51 million viewers (similar numbers to the UNLV v Kansas game also on a Friday on ESPN)

The loss sucks but putting things into perspective…

-Unlv football has been on a meteoric rise. We are 2-1 vs p4 teams and the lone loss was in OT. In two short years, we’ve shown we belong at the P4 level.

- National media has been talking a lot about unlv the last two weeks. Lots of eyeballs on unlv, aside from Utah Tech game, we’ve been on national tv for every game.

- there’s some guys on unlv that WILL play on Sundays.

- CBO’s staff got a lot of attention this year, especially last night. It will be interesting to see what happens down the road, they are young coordinators and that alone will appeal to other schools.

- Recruiting should be much easier now that some barriers have been blown up and the fact unlv has a winning culture now. The loss sucks, it hurts but in years past it would’ve just been another game. CBO changed the mentality and culture here. Recruits will notice that immediately and want to be part of it.

- 31.5k is a good showing for Friday night. We need to get to 40k to get the p4’s attention. The average attendance for p4 is something like 41k. So we’re close but we need to be better on attendance. Certainly better than where we were under Sanchez and Arroyo with 15-18k diehards, sometimes less than that.

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Super happy about this one. Hope the first of many more local heros.