Obviously the Las Vegas bowl game against Arkansas was bigger deal than the Heart of Dallas bowl against UNT.

Where does this bowl stack up do you think?

Arkansas is a SEC school with a bigger name, but they were that great at the time, and the SEC wasn't as dominant at the time either.

Kansas was ranked most of the year and beat some legit good team this year. They historically have not been a good football program, but I think it is safe to say that this Kansas team is a better and more relevant team than the Arkansas team we played 20 years ago at least within the season.

Huge write up on unlv football, the financials, the momentum etc. Good article by Howard Stutz, spread the word if you can.

Harper, who became UNLV’s athletic director in January 2022 after serving as senior associate athletic director for development for nine years, said success on the field has directly translated to improved finances for the program off the field.

In addition to increased football ticket sales, he said last week that the school has seen a revenue boost from team merchandise sales and private donations sought through the Rebel Up campaign, an effort to raise $150 million to enhance the entire UNLV athletic program.

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Thought White showed a bit of his current mind set on where he’ll be next year with his comments. I sense a strong brotherhood with this team… it will be interesting to see. Imagine everyone stays and grows, AND you bring in competition- that’s how you start to win Championships IMO. Another thing I noticed is the players reaction on the comment coach made with the fans that showed up for the championship. I’m not happy with the outcome, none of us are, but I’m very happy with what’s being built!
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Want to sit with rebel fans. Anyone know if there are sections dedicated to each team?

There’s a lot of things I don’t like about allegiant Stadium. But I think the main reason is there can be no flyover after the national anthem.

Reading between the lines and the offers already posted on his Twitter. We MUST be stepping up the NIL money. In his bio he says has NIL money contact info https://twitter.com/PoohPaul4

We seem like we are in a free fall now!
Does anyone here think we can finish 10-4, or do we back into recruiting season 9-5?

Our defense, and DC, are both works in progress. Not terrible for year one but we definitely need to improve.

OC - did the Go Go get a little exposed lately? Better coaching will do better to defend against it.

I think that we can improve vastly on both sides of the ball and want to retain both coordinators if we can. Just pointing out what needs work.

Our ST coach is a keeper for sure.

It looks like sections 138-140 have been reserved for Boise State. Also any seats from season ticket holders have been reserved until Tuesday for those who had season tickets to purchase those seats. Since I was not sure who could go to games with me, I purchased one set of three games, and after I found out who could go, I then purchase individual tickets to two of the other three games, so wasn't able to get season tickets this year (will be getting them next year, and my brother may also be considering purchasing season tickets for the first time). It should be noted that the seats I purchased individually all went in the first hour or two, so we ended up buying a group of seats a little higher up in the same secton.

As quick as tickets are selling is due to UNLV keeping the prices much lower than normal. There is only one section of $125 per ticket, and all the remaining sections $75 or less. The majority of the seats for sale are for $20-$40.

I wonder if they will open another section if ticket sales warrant it?

I try to beat Kansas in the bowl game, and then next season I try to win every game we play.

After that I continue to try and win every game.

I’m sure CO (coach Odom) has a big Rolodex of coaches he can call on. He’s been excellent in terms of staffing.

Just spitballing some names.

Mike Sanford Jr (collecting the CU check)

Kenny Guiton (Arkansas)

Matt Wells (offensive analyst at Oklahoma)

Jerry Neuheisel (ucla WR coach)

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Marion is sticking around.. for now.

I'll send a few questions over to media, like a 5 or 6 question and answer session ... things you want to know about the Jayhawks from somebody that has covered them well.

Set up questions, if they sound good, I'll send out a few of them for him to answer.

Thanks

Anyone want to take a guess on what Bowl game the Rebels end up in and who our opponent ends up being?

Arizona Bowl
UNLV vs Toledo

One thing lost on us making it to the Championship game and to a bowl game is all of the extra practice time that the coaches will have with the players. So many times our season has ended as of the last regular season game with no extra work allowed by our staffs. This season, we have the benefit of extra time developing players for the future, as well as preparing for two games that we normally wouldn't have played in.

This is big, if you ask me.

Major payout. 1.65 million. How did we get this bowl?

Starting with the deferment of the ball after winning the coin toss. I thought our offence was uncharastic and hurried. The coaches knew that Boise offence is pound and ground against our thin DL line. What they did not expect was the crazy plays on offence by Boise. It works every time. Flea Flicker? Really?

After such a great season, tying for first and home field for the championship game, UNLV ends up finishing in 3rd place behind BSU and SJSU. Great season nonetheless but still bit of a disappointment when we had both of those teams in our crib for the final two games.

I was really disappointed with Landon Rogers and Zavier Carter this season. I thought both would have great seasons.

Rogers got hurt early and had 1 rec the entire season. He was healthy the last half of the season. Heard great things about him during summer and fall camp, but for some reason it didnt come together for him. Thats disappointing because De Jesus is not WR2 and we didnt really have any other options out wide. Conerly and Gicinto were underwhelming so I expected to see Rogers at some point and get targets in the second half of the season.

Carter was probably the biggest disappointment of the year. Got into it with Scherer during practice and got kicked out & then told that he couldnt fly with the team to Michigan. Other times, he just didnt play at all. It never seemed like he wanted to be at UNLV.

All of this to say, I hope we identify better fits/talent from the portal this cycle.

Any other disappointments?

Anyways, I wore my cowboy hat..I knew we would ditch stomp Arizona. I was flipping off their bench with the LV Sign.

Jackson was hella good. Make plans for the women’s team.

I went to meet the women’s team after the game. I was f’n blitzed and stoned.

Saw auntie Tut and she is the best fan, she went to get All their autographs. I went to get one too but all the kids were getting autographs. So the security was like 15 minutes left..so I left and went through the tunnel.


I met some of their fans and I said hate you guys since the 80’s. But they understood that it was a friendly rivalry.

So anyways I got lost and there’s a cafe near the auxillary,

Made my way through the tunnel..and there was the women’s basketball team getting on the bus and I met a couple of them and I said I really hate you guys but it’s a healthy hate. So they had water bottles and I asked for a water. The female basketball player said no. And I went to go pull out my money and I said what if I’m bipolar and I’m thirsty. I had a 5 dollar bill..the girl still said no. The bus driver saw this and he offered me a water, I gave him a 5 dollar bill and he gave me 2 waters..

But see how unhelpful the U of A basketball player was…

unf’n believeable. I said where’s the 240 million to their fans but they were cool as helll.

The bus driver saved my ass cause I got super thirsty. I told him I go to Oakey Blvd Church of Christ. See you in the evenings