In Case You Missed it

[Pistol Pete 1]

The most important piece for UNLV to gain entry into a Power Conference fell into place today. UNLV was allocated the full 27 million dollars necessary to fund the medical school. Sandoval was hoping for close to 8 million for 1 year of funding but the legislature voted to fund the entire amount!
Go Rebels!

 

[LasVegasReb]

Don't forget $50M for new hotel school as well.

 

[Rebel1986]

I am glad to see that they ignored Sandoval. Having a governor from unr is not a good thing. He believes things should be even 50/50 between the North and the South. The problem is we pay about 70% of the taxes and the area around Reno pays about 25%.

 

[rebelbuck]

The medical school moving forward, facility upgrades (starting back with Mendenhall Center) now a new $2 mil baseball clubhouse and hopefully soon a Football Practice facility are all signs UNLV is trying to move into a Power 5 Conf during the next round of Realignment.

 

[Bullmastiff 1]

Wheels have been set in motion for a Power 5 conference.

 

[bcvegaspt]

nm

 

[LVRebel2000]

mastiff, what's your thoughts on a time frame for a move?

 

[LasVegasReb]

Do you guys have real inside info on this or just opinions? From the outside looking in, from newspaper articles and from admin statements, it's obvious that the university may be attempting to position itself if expansion occurs. But does anyone have real info that we've contacted or been contacted by a P5 conference about potential inclusion.

 

[bcvegaspt]

Nm

 

[rebelbuck]

I dont have any inside info but Sanchez in multiple interviews has stated moving to a P5 as a goal and more recently in an article TKM mentioned it as well. Seems to be a concerted effort on making UNLV as attractive as possible on an off the field.

 

[DocRebel]

I am glad to see that they ignored Sandoval. Having a governor from unr is not a good thing. He believes things should be even 50/50 between the North and the South. The problem is we pay about 70% of the taxes and the area around Reno pays about 25%.

I've complained about this for years. NSHE is structured in a way where UNR and UNLV are supposed to receive equal resources. Reno benefits from Las Vegas whereas Las Vegas is burdened by Reno.

For example: The reason UNR was funded for the Lawlor Center was directly in response to the emerging basketball empire at UNLV and growing demand to build the T&M. Both facilities opened in 1983.

This is one of the arguments I use for a football stadium. It's funny how UNR has its campus football stadium while UNLV continues getting excuses and pushback for trying to have the same thing. I can guarantee if UNLV football had been competitive all of these years with its games played on campus, and the coin was flipped with UNR being the program perpetually bad and struggling with a disadvantaged stadium situation, the legislature, governor, board of regents, etc., etc, all would have already moved on this thing years ago to "even up" the level.

Similar to the UNLV Law School, there is such a HUGE need for this Medical School in Las Vegas at UNLV that this project is actually overdue. Glad it's now happening.

 

[702Rebel Knight]

I dont have any inside info but Sanchez in multiple interviews has stated moving to a P5 as a goal and more recently in an article TKM mentioned it as well. Seems to be a concerted effort on making UNLV as attractive as possible on an off the field.

Pretty much all that is left is for the Football program to do it's part and Win Big and Win consistently for us to be ready for whenever the opportunity presents itself!

 

[Bullmastiff 1]

Coach Sanchez stated in one of his first interviews that one of his goals was to make UNLV an attractive program for a Power 5 conference notably the Pac-12.

I have no actual inside information concerning a potential move. I just think when you look at the entire picture.
1)Medical School (needed for entrance into Pac-12)
2)Mendenhall Center
3)New baseball Complex
4)Proposed football facility
5)Obvious booster help to football program. UNLV wasn't renting a private jet for the coaches during recruiting on their own dime.
6)University purchased large plot of land.

Its speculation on my part but all of that points towards UNLV making every effort possible to make that move. That is a lot of money and moving parts for a school just trying to keep their head above water.

Most college football writers agree that within 10 years all 5 of the Power Conferences will be either 14 or 16 teams. My guess is 16. I don't think there is a school out there that would want to get left out of that mix. If this did in fact happen it would essentially kill mid-level conferences like the Mountain West, Sun Belt and MAC. The bigger conferences will poach the most attractive schools not affiliated with power conference a bring them in. Boise State to say the Big-12, Northern Illinois to the Big10 Central Florida to the ACC etc...

As for a time frame this again is purely speculation but if you figure we would need a new stadium first, my guess would be we wouldn't see any possible move to the Pac-12 for at least 5-6 years.

I don't think Sanchez has to turn UNLV into some type of dominant school to make this happen. I would bet if he can get UNLV to where they are routinely winning 5-7 games a year it would be enough plus a new stadium.

Again totally speculation on my part.