UNLV women hoops beats Arizona 72-53 today!

No slow build when you hire the right coach!

Some quick thoughts right after this ended;

1. Losing to an interim coach in the championship game by a score of 44-20 is not a good look. The score is not indicative of how badly they beat us.
2. There were certain plays that looked funny in terms of how much effort was given to get a first down.
3. As mentioned before in the in-game thread, if we lose the bowl game and end up at 9-5, we have to legit look in the mirror and ask if we are a good team? Thats my opinion.
4. I hope we take a close look in the mirror at our defensive coaches. The secondary didnt improve at all. Davis and Magazu need to go for us to truly compete. Also, revamp the entire secondary personnel wise.

Thoughts and comments welcomed. I hope everyone gets home safely.

Starting for Washington and has looked much better than his UNLV days!

If a talented QB were to hit the portal, would you want the staff to go after them or prefer that we just ride with Maiava?

Willie Fritz, Jeff Traylor, and Barry Odom have emerged as the top candidates on their list

Did she create more questions than she answered??
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I didn’t realize their game was today. They’ve earned a large crowd against a top opponent at the T&M. Tough coincidence that it occurs the same day as the MWC Championship. Even UNLV Athletics didn’t consider its football team playing in the championship game when they schedule this match up.

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I am listening to the new Cofield podcast with Caleb Herring and it is painfully obvious that Herring wants Doug Brumfield back in there. He doesn't give him any credit at all. I remember listening early in the season when he kept saying that Doug will be back, he is QB # 1. Maiava hasn't done anything, it's all the team. I didn't think it was possible that there could be a Brumfield nut hugger left in the free world at this point. Pitiful

posted it in that pregame article, I think it'll be the AZ bowl vs Toledo.

As for this game, Boise is bigger, deeper, stronger and just better than UNLV. Boise didn't "outcoach" UNLV but they sure as hell out executed UNLV. Defensively, players were put on an island and they knew they had to make plays. Almost across the board, from tackling to coverage, UNLV failed mightily. Jeanty ended up with a big game and we weren't going to let him beat us, but Green did. He was really good aside from one play. That was the gamble that didn't pay off. Ironically, he can be wild and he was on target today and it could have been worse as a wide open TD was flat out dropped.

Offensively, the running game was a non factor and Jayden was awful. Those dropped interceptions over the second half of the season that we were lucky with, weren't lucky with them today. He was just bad. And he's carried the ball like a loaf of bread most of the season, it caught him today. I still have visions of that wimpy 4th down conversion attempt. I think we were down 14 and driving and it the first down was necessary - and he went down so weakly and easily, I lost a ton of respect. Maybe I'm reading too much into a single play. But that big of a play at that point of the game at that point of the season ... you gotta be kidding me. But he didn't blow the game by himself. The offense only scored, what, 17 points? For an offense that scores 35+ ...it wasn't ALL him. The defense was awful, tackled like crap, covered like crap, they played worse than last week which was worse than any game before that, whether it was a win or loss. So it's a two game streak of our worst football, IMO. A couple of weeks to regroup.

Not a lost season by any stretch, even if we drop the bowl game. The accomplished so much with such a terrible program. Now we see where the weakness are and can make wholesale changes for the type of player we need from the portal. Some guys just don't have it behind the sternum, IMO. Many do, but some don't. Be done with them and move forward and get better. Recruit over, get the right players, to hell with what is here if they don't fit the mold you have. Disappointed but not defeated, it will always be considered a good season. And with our basketball team sucking so badly, it was much needed relief from sport to sport, year to year sucking. I'm appreciative that they got my juices flowing for the season, I thought they completely evaporated, it's been so long. Finally a season you could actually watch, enjoy and appreciate because they didn't look like complete druken fools running aimlessly (football and basketball).

I had 2 beers and weed!!

Let's hear who you got ....

Line up your predictions, post updates, info, insights, stats, embed tweets, videos, pics, whatever you want … make your picks and post as the game progresses, this will serve as the game thread. Anything you want related to the UNLV vs Boise championship game, Saturday afternoon at Allegiant.

DATE: Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023
KICKOFF: 12:09 pm PT
SITE: Allegiant Stadium (61,000/Artificial) Las Vegas
TV: FOX (Jason Benetti, Brock Huard & Allison Williams)
RADIO: ESPN 1100 AM & 100.9 FM (R. Langer, C.Herring & S. Cofield)
TICKETS: UNLVTickets.com
SPREAD: Boise State -4 O/U 58.5

We rank 297th in Tempo per KenPom.

Almost all of our players refuse to fast break and pull up even if they have numbers.

This has to be coaching as no player has an instinct that bad.

WTF????????????????????????????

So nervous for this game lol, I was thinking of going early since I have a spot on-site but idk if there is going to be a ton of people there. Down to hangout with some other Rebel fans if some of y'all do go early, let me know. Go Rebels!

Football is intense

If you watching this game. What do you think the level of competition vs teams like UNLV and Boise State. Do you think they can measure up? NMSU looks like a bunch of 30 years dude playing on together in the park. Liberty is down 14-7 vs NMSU.

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I absolutely respect his conviction.

This is the second time he made it clear that he isn’t all about the money. His Princess Bride interview was beautiful.

Kind of an all over the place post. Based on a mix of actual info and my own opinions.

UNLV is going to do well in the portal. Very well, I think. I also think we are going to lose some players, some players that matter, some players that haven't played yet, some players ... that's going to be the nature of the portal going forward.

UNLV showed alot of ingenuity and excitement in their offense and it's going to draw some nice players. Of course, winning helps, but when you do it in a way that's appealing, it's going to attract eyes. What we ran this year and our success with it is mattering.

When I think of the opposite, sadly, I think of our own basketball team. We struggle, so winning isn't attracting anybody. The offense is ugly as hell and there's nothing fluid or exciting about it. You could say the same about SDSU in a sense, their offense isn't exciting at all, it's a grind. But they have a history of winning and they sell toughness and playing defense, they won't waste time on you if that's not what you are about, and it works for them.

When we land some players, don't get too excited, hoops or football. It may not last, it may flip. When we lose a player from current roster, it might suck, but there are quality replacements (at least for football). The portal has really, really changed everything about college sports - along with NIL. The team building of today vs yesteryear aren't even 7th cousins, they aren't really related at all.

I really do like the direction of football, there is a ton of momentum regardless of how the last two games play out. They did it for a long enough period and the product is so drastically different (we went from 30 year streetwalker crack addict to a small house in the suburbs and a 40 hour per week respectable job that pays all the bills), it brought in alot for the program and school. Basketball is traveling the opposite way, from high on wall street to scraping for your next binge on skid row.

I also fully and wholeheartedly believe that one head coach will be here next year and the other will not, barring anything outrageous.

I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again.
….A basketball game is NO PLACE for a disc jockey. It doesn’t add to the atmosphere of the game, it only detracts.
… A person cannot even talk to his buddy next to him without being screamed at or
music blasting. Totally ridiculous.
…A basketball game is the perfect place for a pep band to shine. We have a good pep band. They should be playing all the time. But no, they are allowed 4 or 5 songs per game. All sitting on their butts as the crowd in bombarded with some form of obnoxious noise.
.. And, I’ve been told, this is what the people want.. this is the wave of the future. Looking around at tonight’s game and all games these last few years..I don’t think so.
…Whoever is in charge of our light show needs to retire with Kevin. Who’s idea is it to dim the lights BEFORE they introduce the opponents??? The light show is for US. Then, of course, we still show our highlight movie clip. If I was a coach, I would never allow my team to show/watch that. The hard hitting impact of our “old” lightshow was so much better.
… I could go on but my rant is over.
PS. I love the $2 beer nights. So there’s that.

He’s.a really good coach and will be missed in the Pac I mean MWC.

SJSU is in the Hawaii Bowl. Good opponent for them. Still hoping it’s LA Bowl for UNLV

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Per NCAA rules teams are limited to 25 new recruits per year. They are also allowed to replace up to 7 students who transfer out. Apparently first year coached have more flexibility. The rules have been changing because of the portal. So I checked this morning.

So, do any of you Vegas-ites want to talk about our potential new conference, aside from this Triboda guy and his 23,000+ posts? Geezus. This Coug can dribble on and on, but I have never seen anything like that.

Never been to Vegas ( I don't gamble), But hey, I could probably talk myself into a roadtrip.