Date Opponent Time/TV Tickets
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Aug. 29California Golden BearsAllegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV Time TBA ETTV TBA Buy Tickets
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Sep. 5Louisiana Tech BulldogsAllegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV Time TBA ETTV TBA
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Sep. 12Arizona State Sun DevilsAllegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV Time TBA ETTV TBA
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Sep. 19at Iowa State CyclonesJack Trice Stadium, Ames, IA Time TBA ETTV TBA Buy Tickets
Date TBAat Boise State BroncosAlbertsons Stadium, Boise, ID Time TBA ETTV TBA
Date TBAat Hawaii Rainbow WarriorsAloha Stadium, Honolulu, HI Time TBA ETTV TBA
Date TBAat San Diego State AztecsSDCCU Stadium, San Diego, CA Time TBA ETTV TBA
Date TBAat San Jose State SpartansCEFCU Stadium, San Jose, CA Time TBA ETTV TBA
Date TBAColorado State RamsAllegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV Time TBA ETTV TBA
Date TBAFresno State BulldogsAllegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV Time TBA ETTV TBA
Date TBANevada Wolf PackAllegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV Time TBA ETTV TBA
Date TBAWyoming CowboysAllegiant Stadium, Las Vegas, NV Time TBA ETTV TBA
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Dec. 5MWC ChampionshipSite, City TBD Time TBA ETTV TBA![]()
This is going to be a great test for Coach Arroyo. Opening up against Cal I could see us getting steamrolled, since new coach, new players, but I can see it getting better after that. Maybe 1-3 would be considered a win with a couple competitive losses?
Even the venues aren’t completely locked in yet, lol.Just for clarity, the only thing locked in at this point for the conference games is who we play at home and who we play on the road. When we play the 8 conference games is completely unpublicized information at this point
Exactly. Hoops, if you can play at 18, you can play. In football, for most of the positions, if you are 18, you are a couple years away from having the body needed. Nice thing about football, especially a school like UNLV, they ain’t going pro early so you have time to get them where you need them.Even though Arroyo has a good class coming in usually it takes a couple years for freshman to transition from high-school to college. So record wise I don't expect much different next year from this year. But I am hoping the games will be closer.
Tough schedule.
I don't expect a bowl next year.
But expect the team to be more competitive. Fewer 30+ point losses.
Whitley and Rickey Johnson will push that envelopeExactly. Hoops, if you can play at 18, you can play. In football, for most of the positions, if you are 18, you are a couple years away from having the body needed. Nice thing about football, especially a school like UNLV, they ain’t going pro early so you have time to get them where you need them.
Daniel Caloca might be the best of them all...Whitley and Rickey Johnson will push that envelope
Bowl game will be extremely tough. It's hard to find a single OOC win. Maybe we can surprise a team or 2.
Even the in conference slate looks unforgiving. At least SDSU has a new coach with a good amount of turnover, same with Hawai'i. Hopefully they have more growing pains than us?
Hard to say...
Have to hope.
One can hope..
Lot of turnover in the conference.
This class is an encouraging sign..
My guess is the Raider situation is the hold up. It’s smart for the MWC to work with the Raiders/UNLV as much as possible to make things work. And the MWC is the entity with the greatest amount of flexibility with the potential schedule conflicts. Raiders home games 1-7pm starts on Sun, Mon... UNLV can wedge in areas more easily than they can.Strange the MWC hasn't released the 2020 schedule yet. Last year it was released weeks earlier than this. All the major conferences have released their schedules and even the AAC and CUSA out.
I wonder if UNLV (Raiders) is the hold up. We know Fresno/CSU/WYO/UNR will all be at Allegiant not SBS but I'm guessing the Raiders get to pick the dates and are still trying to figure out concerts and what not.
My guess is the Raider situation is the hold up. It’s smart for the MWC to work with the Raiders/UNLV as much as possible to make things work. And the MWC is the entity with the greatest amount of flexibility with the potential schedule conflicts. Raiders home games 1-7pm starts on Sun, Mon... UNLV can wedge in areas more easily than they can.
Is the Raider schedule etched in stone yet?Agreed. They also need to work with CBS/FOX if any of those 4 games are considered TV worthy (I hope so). I just wonder how long they can delay this. UNLV may not care but there's 11 other teams that can't get their home dates until this is figured out.
Is the Raider schedule etched in stone yet?
Still don’t know what TB12 will doI would hope the Raiders already unofficially know most of the dates by now but they won't announce the schedule until the middle of April. It's difficult to tell because TV has a big say in things and free agency (March) will play a role in that. For example if Tom Brady signs with the Raiders I imagine they'll end up with an extra prime time TV date. Just a hypothetical, I don't think Brady comes here.
I wonder if UNLV (Raiders) is the hold up. We know Fresno/CSU/WYO/UNR will all be at Allegiant not SBS but I'm guessing the Raiders get to pick the dates and are still trying to figure out concerts and what not.
I’ve heard at least 18 hours to flip the field.Oh geez. I have thought about this but not that closely. Likelihood that we have to wait for the NFL schedule to come out before we can get ours worked out? Last year, schedule didn't get officially released until April 17.
I've also wondered how ridiculous the Raiders will be with this.
Hypothetical: Raiders play a Sunday afternoon game. Will they use the "we have to roll out the field and let it set more than 24-hours in advance of the game" excuse and prevent UNLV from playing home Saturday games the same weekend of all Raiders Sunday home games?
They could *really* make this thing awful. More and more thinking about it, I wish the Raiders weren't approved by NFL so we got that $300m+ for a UNLV stadium.
I'm not really sure if that Stadium will ever feel like ours. If you look at the renderings or any of the 3D mock-ups You can see that the Raiders have their logos everywhere. I wish the stadium was going to be set up more like T-Mobile because when you go to a non Hockey event it feels different.I’ve heard at least 18 hours to flip the field.
First year, first month will be the difficulty. After that, it should work out. Hopefully in the future, the NFL works with UNLV. An early season Monday night game gives the Rebels a Saturday day or night home game. A Sunday night Raider game gives UNLV a noon/later afternoon Saturday game. A Raider road game gives the Rebels whatever they want. A Rebel road game gives the Raiders whatever they want. And - I’m not entirely against this, a Thursday or Friday UNLV home game gives UNLV plenty of space. But contracts for non-con games are usually a couple years in advance. A lot of teams don’t like short weeks, but the Rebels can pay more than before so that could entice a non-P5 school into a Thurs or Fri game (they need the dollars more than P5).
A lot of things to think about, there is a lot that can be done. The Raiders and Rebels need to work together and they need to do it in a non last minute manner.
If this plays out as UNLV is the stepchild, I won’t like it. Listen, we don’t DESERVE a state of the art stadium, we’ve done zero to earn it. But it is OURS every bit as much as the Raiders. And the Raiders needed Vegas/UNLV way more than the other way around. We’d be in a new stadium regardless. The Raiders absolutely took advantage (as they should have, it’s business) of a very ripe situation.
I think we will always feel like second class citizens there. It's obviously all Raider flavored.I'm not really sure if that Stadium will ever feel like ours. If you look at the renderings or any of the 3D mock-ups You can see that the Raiders have their logos everywhere. I wish the stadium was going to be set up more like T-Mobile because when you go to a non Hockey event it feels different.
You have to remember to Start the changeover from UNLV to Raiders. You need to remove the some of UNLV synthetic field and then roll in the Raiders natural grass field from Outdoors. Raiders need 24 hours for the grass to be indoors before they can play on it.18 hours to flip the field? That seems a bit extreme. I thought that they were kept on rollable pallets as one piece, and that the whole point was that the changing process would be easy.
Hell NRG here in Houston had 3 events in 3 consecutive days. @ different college game and a Texans game. They flipped it at least 1x, if not 2x that weekend this year.
Could this possible push more games to Friday? That could help us out in terms of TV.
And it’s signage, it’s some reconfigurations as well. And some other things.You have to remember to Start the changeover from UNLV to Raiders. You need to remove the some of UNLV synthetic field and then roll in the Raiders natural grass field from Outdoors. Raiders need 24 hours for the grass to be indoors before they can play on it.
Future games, perhaps. Signed contract (out of conference games), probably not. If team A agreed to play on Saturday in Vegas, they have the say if we want to move it to Friday. And most wont, makes for a short week. Maybe we can manipulate the contract with more money for a move to Friday?18 hours to flip the field? That seems a bit extreme. I thought that they were kept on rollable pallets as one piece, and that the whole point was that the changing process would be easy.
Hell NRG here in Houston had 3 events in 3 consecutive days. @ different college game and a Texans game. They flipped it at least 1x, if not 2x that weekend this year.
Could this possible push more games to Friday? That could help us out in terms of TV.
Joe I know you're right. I was Bored one day and read the entire agreement online. UNLV is getting charged a lot of money for game day expenses. I think heads are going to turn when the Raiders send them that first bill sometime in SeptemberAnd it’s signage, it’s some reconfigurations as well. And some other things.
I wasn’t pulling a raw number out of my ass. It’s a ballpark figure of what I was told by somebody in the know.
I think it’s ... 225k per game? Somehow that number rings a bell. From 75k at Boyd to 225k?Joe I know you're right. I was Bored one day and read the entire agreement online. UNLV is getting charged a lot of money for game day expenses. I think heads are going to turn when the Raiders send them that first bill sometime in September
Oh, UNLV will make money on it overall, no question. Even the 2M from the Raiders not to play in SBS leaves you with a 700K-1M surplus when subtracting game day costs and that idoesn’t include additional money from tickets, parking, concessions.I have seen numbers that the cost for UNLV football at the new stadium will run between $150K and $250K, but that is really an unknown at this point to most people. As for the cost being higher, you are correct, but just the luxury suite sales along and the additional ticket sales for those who will buy tickets because of the new stadium alone should be far in excess of the additional cost of playing in the new stadium.
If you take an increased cost of $150,000 per game and an average cost of $40 per individual game day tickets, UNLV needs to sell 3750 additional tickets per game without even including the additional income from the luxury suites. Based on discussions with many people who I know, who never bought tickets for UNLV football in the past, and who are going to buy tickets this season, I have little doubt that they will easily make up the additional rental cost in ticket sales. A good example is that the game against California alone is expected to have in excess of 40,000 people (conservative estimate). That would be 20,000 tickets above the normal which should alone cover the entire season. Even at 40 per ticket that would be over $800,000 from one game. While the average attendance will be lower, you can expect UNLV will be able to schedule 1-2 big time home games every year to cover the additional rent for the year.
That’s a f*ck up schedule. I think UNLV can win the last 4Gonna be tough...
You have to remember to Start the changeover from UNLV to Raiders. You need to remove the some of UNLV synthetic field and then roll in the Raiders natural grass field from Outdoors. Raiders need 24 hours for the grass to be indoors before they can play on it.