Houston And Kelvin Sampson

[Rebel10fan]

Houston hired Kelvin Sampson from the NBA in 2014.


Since:


2016: $25M practice facility


2018: $60M arena upgrade

1. First March Madness win in
2. 2019: School-record 33 wins
3. 2021: First Final Four in 34 years
4. Now, Sampson has the Cougars playing for a national title.

If it can be done in Houston it can be done here.

 

[Takethat702]

Houston hired Kelvin Sampson from the NBA in 2014.


Since:


2016: $25M practice facility


2018: $60M arena upgrade

1. First March Madness win in
2. 2019: School-record 33 wins
3. 2021: First Final Four in 34 years
4. Now, Sampson has the Cougars playing for a national title.

If it can be done in Houston it can be done here.

Didn’t he also try to apply here and we passed on him also?

 

[Rebel10fan]

Didn’t he also try to apply here and we passed on him also?

Something like that if I remember correctly

 

[RebelScrub]

Houston hired Kelvin Sampson from the NBA in 2014.


Since:


2016: $25M practice facility


2018: $60M arena upgrade

1. First March Madness win in
2. 2019: School-record 33 wins
3. 2021: First Final Four in 34 years
4. Now, Sampson has the Cougars playing for a national title.

If it can be done in Houston it can be done here.

It was done here..we pissed it away.

 

[RebelSoldat]

What a terrible last possession...wow...

 

[unlove]

Houston hired Kelvin Sampson from the NBA in 2014.


Since:


2016: $25M practice facility


2018: $60M arena upgrade

1. First March Madness win in
2. 2019: School-record 33 wins
3. 2021: First Final Four in 34 years
4. Now, Sampson has the Cougars playing for a national title.

If it can be done in Houston it can be done here.

It did happen here lol

 

[Rebel77fl2]

Sampson is a great coach, but there was major booster support. Also, would our boosters have been patient enough to sit through a 10th place finish much worse than the previous coach for what Houston was paying Sampson…..

 

[j. spilotro]

Didn’t he also try to apply here and we passed on him also?

He was too tainted. Lol. Imagine that. UNLV, the “Rebels”, afraid to take a shot.

 

[Rebel10fan]

It did happen here lol

I don’t think you understand what I’m trying to say. Houston dominated the 80’s and then became irrelevant until Sampson came. If Houston can comeback so can we.

 

[j. spilotro]

I don’t think you understand what I’m trying to say. Houston dominated the 80’s and then became irrelevant until Sampson came. If Houston can comeback so can we.

Eh, 40 years later? Next hire should do it.

 

[unlove]

I don’t think you understand what I’m trying to say. Houston dominated the 80’s and then became irrelevant until Sampson came. If Houston can comeback so can we.

👍🏼👍🏼

 

[1994Rebel]

We have been ultra gun shy based on years of the NCAA persecution. Bayno lost his job because of the fear of sanctions. Since then it's been all vanilla hires. LK was very conservative in recruiting and with Findlay. No way an AD with limited track record would've stuck their neck out on a tainted hire like Sampson at that time.

 

[Rosegreen1]

Eh, 40 years later? Next hire should do it.

Hawkins on the cheap after CJP goes back to AZ?

 

[rebel5280]

Hawkins on the cheap after CJP goes back to AZ?

No!

 

[InZoneU]

I remember him being on our potential hire list. I also remember tons of people crapping all over him for his past and didn't want him at UNLV. Too risky. Too shady. I.E. Theus stuff.

 

[j. spilotro]

I remember him being on our potential hire list. I also remember tons of people crapping all over him for his past and didn't want him at UNLV. Too risky. Too shady. I.E. Theus stuff.

And a lot of those same people/hypocrites adored Tark.

 

[dcut03]

I can see Rebel Net now.
Sampson is past his prime. He has an ugly style of play that isn't entertaining enough! He doesn't recruit 5 stars! He has a boring personality!!!

Truth is Houston and UNLV have a LOT in common. They were UNLV 10 years ahead of UNLV. 5 Final Fours 1 coach (who was inducted in the HOF at the same time as Tark no less), one of the best teams ever to never win the title in Phi Slamma Jamma. Then fell into obscurity.

In 2007 when watching UNLV just dismantle a U of H team with some decent talent but with terrible one on one basketball. I was there in an empty arena of maybe 1000 fans and 25 of those were me, my wife at the time one buddy, and Wink's extended family.

What would you say to a die hard of UH in 2007, a middle of the road CUSA team, who told you that they are better than the rest of the CUSA, and "things are different here". Basically the same things we see here for the past 20 years? We would laugh at them. Just like they would laugh at what our fans are saying.

They have a Fertitta that actually cares about their school, that has donated an influx of millions into the Athletic Department. Granted they had a more consistent football program, but the basketball program that was forgotten. Tillman ponied up, and help get Sampson. The rest is history.

Sampson didn't recruit great in terms of highly rated guys, but got a type of player to fit his style of play. Created a culture, quickly, but still had an identity. They didn't have great facilities initially, that took a couple of years.

 

[RebelScrub]

I can see Rebel Net now.
Sampson is past his prime. He has an ugly style of play that isn't entertaining enough! He doesn't recruit 5 stars! He has a boring personality!!!

Truth is Houston and UNLV have a LOT in common. They were UNLV 10 years ahead of UNLV. 5 Final Fours 1 coach (who was inducted in the HOF at the same time as Tark no less), one of the best teams ever to never win the title in Phi Slamma Jamma. Then fell into obscurity.

In 2007 when watching UNLV just dismantle a U of H team with some decent talent but with terrible one on one basketball. I was there in an empty arena of maybe 1000 fans and 25 of those were me, my wife at the time one buddy, and Wink's extended family.

What would you say to a die hard of UH in 2007, a middle of the road CUSA team, who told you that they are better than the rest of the CUSA, and "things are different here". Basically the same things we see here for the past 20 years? We would laugh at them. Just like they would laugh at what our fans are saying.

They have a Fertitta that actually cares about their school, that has donated an influx of millions into the Athletic Department. Granted they had a more consistent football program, but the basketball program that was forgotten. Tillman ponied up, and help get Sampson. The rest is history.

Sampson didn't recruit great in terms of highly rated guys, but got a type of player to fit his style of play. Created a culture, quickly, but still had an identity. They didn't have great facilities initially, that took a couple of years.

What the hell happened. His team was running the ball up and down the floor in the first half. Second half, they slowed it down.

And his team did the weave on the final possession.

phi-Air-a-balla in the first half.

 

[billd99s]

What the hell happened. His team was running the ball up and down the floor in the first half. Second half, they slowed it down.

And his team did the weave on the final possession.

phi-Air-a-balla in the first half.

At about the 13 minute mark with Houston up 10, three fouls in 90 seconds. Lead was four. Then hero ball, no assists for the rest of the game except for one dunk. They ran out of gas or Florida's defense stymied them like the Zags did in the Sweet 16. I'll put it down to defense and no movement. Lots of fouls vs H's bigs also destroyed their inside rebounding.

 

[WarthogRebel]

At about the 13 minute mark with Houston up 10, three fouls in 90 seconds. Lead was four. Then hero ball, no assists for the rest of the game except for one dunk. They ran out of gas or Florida's defense stymied them like the Zags did in the Sweet 16. I'll put it down to defense and no movement. Lots of fouls vs H's bigs also destroyed their inside rebounding.

Good analysis. Also it's impossible to overemphasize how much it gets in a players brain when the team blows a lead.

 

[j. spilotro]

What the hell happened. His team was running the ball up and down the floor in the first half. Second half, they slowed it down.

And his team did the weave on the final possession.

phi-Air-a-balla in the first half.

I wanted to see Sampson win one, I like the guy. He’s bent the rules in the past, I like that. He got caught, paid his dues, bounced back, he can flat out coach.

But Houston shriveled up last night. They were well in control and they tightened up. And it was across the board. His team does it with toughness, but they wilted at the wrong time last night. With victory millimeters away.

 

[dcut03]

What the hell happened. His team was running the ball up and down the floor in the first half. Second half, they slowed it down.

And his team did the weave on the final possession.

phi-Air-a-balla in the first half.

part of that were the refs going from swallowing their whistles to calling everything. I get why, it was starting to get chippy, but still hard to adjust.

The last possession was a double screen for Sharp. Clayton Jr. read it perfectly and was able to get in Sharp's face. Sharp wasn't expecting to be guarded which is why it ended the way it did. Sharp should have at least looked before he left his feet. But you can tell that Houston has a quick trigger with many of their perimeter shots off screens.

 

[Rosegreen1]

No!

I’m joking.

It was brutal to watch Sampson just stare at the court at the end of the game. Still processing what the hell happened. Just brutal stuff.

 

[Boston Rebel 2]

I wanted to see Sampson win one, I like the guy. He’s bent the rules in the past, I like that. He got caught, paid his dues, bounced back, he can flat out coach.

But Houston shriveled up last night. They were well in control and they tightened up. And it was across the board. His team does it with toughness, but they wilted at the wrong time last night. With victory millimeters away.

Ironic since they were the beneficiaries of that the game prior vs Duke.

 

[j. spilotro]

Ironic since they were the beneficiaries of that the game prior vs Duke.

Exactly. When you think of Houston, you think tough and defensive.

That’s what got them past Duke, Duke choked, some great defense, timely shooting and they got a huge break imo, thankfully, against Flagg (that was not a foul).

I’m so happy Duke lost, it’s almost poetic in a way that the shitty referee and that blew the whistle on Flagg was the same referee that called Greg Anthony’s charge. And I think he was the one that missed the blatant over the back by Laettner over LJ.

 

[LVRebel2000]

The Houston team as a mold is IMO, the easiest way for UNLV to get back into the national market. We're not going to be able to get the top players nationally with our budget. But you can get some great athletes and have a tough, hard nosed, pressure filled team. You need some amount of offense obviously, but you hope to create TO's off of the defense, which creates some easy points too.

 

[RebelScrub]

At about the 13 minute mark with Houston up 10, three fouls in 90 seconds. Lead was four. Then hero ball, no assists for the rest of the game except for one dunk. They ran out of gas or Florida's defense stymied them like the Zags did in the Sweet 16. I'll put it down to defense and no movement. Lots of fouls vs H's bigs also destroyed their inside rebounding.

I watched the first half then watched the rest of the game at wahoo’s fish tacos.

One of the worst final possessions I have ever seen in my life.

If he would have pumped faked and not travelled, he would have been good for a step back or something..

They ran out of gas!!

 

[RebelScrub]

I’m joking.

It was brutal to watch Sampson just stare at the court at the end of the game. Still processing what the hell happened. Just brutal stuff.

Looked like Obama when Trump won his third term!!

I was pulling for the guy too. He gets sh*tcanned for stupid texts during quiet period in recruiting at Indiana..

 

[RebelScrub]

I wanted to see Sampson win one, I like the guy. He’s bent the rules in the past, I like that. He got caught, paid his dues, bounced back, he can flat out coach.

But Houston shriveled up last night. They were well in control and they tightened up. And it was across the board. His team does it with toughness, but they wilted at the wrong time last night. With victory millimeters away.

Roommate jinxed it. Went to bed early…

 

[lynaskin]

Houston is going to be really good next year too.

 

[RebelScrub]

Houston is going to be really good next year too.

Schedule dat home and home!!!

Frickin Fertittas have two schools to root for.

And somebody un 86 me from Station Casinos.

 

[LVRebel2000]

Houston is going to be really good next year too.

Depends on NIL and portal

 

[j. spilotro]

Depends on NIL and portal

Funny thing is - you’d think being so close …. So very close …. That it would forge them as a team to a man to get back at it and win it all.

But dollars rule.

 

[Boston Rebel 2]

Exactly. When you think of Houston, you think tough and defensive.

That’s what got them past Duke, Duke choked, some great defense, timely shooting and they got a huge break imo, thankfully, against Flagg (that was not a foul).

I’m so happy Duke lost, it’s almost poetic in a way that the shitty referee and that blew the whistle on Flagg was the same referee that called Greg Anthony’s charge. And I think he was the one that missed the blatant over the back by Laettner over LJ.

No shit that is the same ref who called the charge on Greg? Wow talk about delicious irony. The ref who helped kickstart the run took them down.

 

[j. spilotro]

No shit that is the same ref who called the charge on Greg? Wow talk about delicious irony. The ref who helped kickstart the run took them down.

Teddy Valentine. It was his first FF in 1991. Who knows, maybe this was his last. He pissed off the powers with that call.

I remember some refs. Moose Stubing
was a fixture in the 2000s, former Angel coach. I don’t remember him as being good or bad, but he was fun to mess with because he’d mess back with you and have a laugh, good natured kind of way. Fat and bald, smiled a lot. And sweat a lot.

Of course, Dave Hall.

Then there’s Teddy Valentine.

And Norm Borucki. Tark hated him. UNLV typically got screwed with him. We didn’t lose the games, normally, it was during our peak. But he was the one that fkd up the at Oklahoma game with Gary Graham’s three pointer. Tark hated him even before that game.

Refs are rarely remembered for being good.

 

[Boston Rebel 2]

Teddy Valentine. It was his first FF in 1991. Who knows, maybe this was his last. He pissed off the powers with that call.

I remember some refs. Moose Stubing
was a fixture in the 2000s, former Angel coach. I don’t remember him as being good or bad, but he was fun to mess with because he’d mess back with you and have a laugh, good natured kind of way. Fat and bald, smiled a lot. And sweat a lot.

Of course, Dave Hall.

Then there’s Teddy Valentine.

And Norm Borucki. Tark hated him. UNLV typically got screwed with him. We didn’t lose the games, normally, it was during our peak. But he was the one that fkd up the at Oklahoma game with Gary Graham’s three pointer. Tark hated him even before that game.

Refs are rarely remembered for being good.

1991 should have been his last.

Dave Hall, my God there was never a ref I hated more than that complete stiff.

 

[saulpaul21]

How come no one brings up the foot slide on Florida when they had the bad pass vs pressure? What ref blew that call?

 

[bcvegaspt2]

Teddy Valentine. It was his first FF in 1991. Who knows, maybe this was his last. He pissed off the powers with that call.

I remember some refs. Moose Stubing
was a fixture in the 2000s, former Angel coach. I don’t remember him as being good or bad, but he was fun to mess with because he’d mess back with you and have a laugh, good natured kind of way. Fat and bald, smiled a lot. And sweat a lot.

Of course, Dave Hall.

Then there’s Teddy Valentine.

And Norm Borucki. Tark hated him. UNLV typically got screwed with him. We didn’t lose the games, normally, it was during our peak. But he was the one that fkd up the at Oklahoma game with Gary Graham’s three pointer. Tark hated him even before that game.

Refs are rarely remembered for being good.

Musburger was the announcer and wouldn’t commit one way or the other as the play was being reviewed. I kept thinking that the single point from that shot may cost us (it was right before half). Then we lost.

Obviously, I’m not still bitter 40 years later.