Go FCS (Big Sky). You think that's potatoes, take a look at their football facilities, esp. Montana. Matches anything Fertitta Football Complex has to offer. It's clear UNLV can be competitive only at the FCS level. At least they can establish winning records & play for a national championship in FCS. I've been on this board at least 10 years & it's the same story every year. This thread could have been written 10, even 15 yrs. ago.
I could copy and paste every post you have ever written for the past 10 years.
It's the same thing.
If UNLV goes FCS in football the program is dead. Period end of story. You will not draw enough people for games against Sacramento State or Portland State, regardless of how well UNLV performs...
Add in that few FCS programs travel well enough to make up for monetary difference.
End the program or continue to try. Because a drop to FCS would kill the program in this town.
This isn't Montana where the Griz are the only show in town.
We have NFL, NHL, WNBA and looking more and more like MLB. Nobody will care about FCS football.
People will pony up to pay and see Iowa State or ASU or UCLA come to town. They will not do that for the Weber States of the world.
You are also forgetting a drop to FCS in football likely means UNLV would be forced out of the MWC and all sports would likely suffer...
It makes zero sense to move to FCS financially.
As for facilities, I would put up the Fertitta complex up against anything in the MWC and it's in line with some P5.
You are cherry picking one or two particularly successful FCS programs.
The vast majority don't have anything resembling the Fertitta complex.
Few of them have anything as nice as the Mendenhall center (those that are D1 in basketball).
Few if any have million dollar baseball facilities..
