So? It reads a lot like someone is trying to make a big deal out of Nothing! Most programs do not squirrel away the money to pay for future years. The money is raised either through donations or ticket sales each year to pay for that year. Does anyone think they have funding set aside for all the other sports coaching staff and team cost?
Mullen’s contract not fully covered
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The article was complete crap. No clue how athletics actually work. The writer and the regents.
This is more embarrassing than the Sluka NIL fiasco and about par with Beard and the regents.
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It's not great but that headline is also click bait. It buries a lot of how UNLV intends to account for it all the way down at the bottom.
Regardless of facts its going to be effective making UNLV look like shit and less desirable in public perception as conference realignment ticks on, which is the last thing needed right now.
Between this and the president suddenly stepping down UNLV looks like a dumpster fire.
Probably a bitter donor and/or related to the political climate.
Maybe to fans that don't know how things actually work. Conference admins and school ADs and presidents know better.
You can try and minimize/spin the impact all you want, but this is shit and can do real damage to the university, sow discord, and create unnecessary headwinds that maybe collapse whatever momentum we thought UNLV had.
Only saving grace I see is tying this to Colorado who had a similar deal in place with Deion, but their program is in a completely different stratosphere than UNLV.
Only saving grace I see is tying this to Colorado who had a similar deal in place with Deion, but their program is in a completely different stratosphere than UNLV.
UNLV isn't unique in carrying deficits, so what gives?
I don't think anybody is arguing the optics.
We can revisit this then. I certainly won’t be holding my breath we’re invited to any Super League.
ASU’s approach seems like a solid plan. Not sure how applicable it is for us considering their enrollment is significantly higher than ours.
The President stepping down is actually a huge positive for UNLV under the current political climate. If he had stayed at UNLV and kept pushing his pro-Illegal rhetoric, then that would have been a huge dumpster fire. Ask Columbia how things look for them right now!
Just block me. Can’t remember the last time I said California was shitty, been awhile, but it is … and you probably know it … but hate admitting it.
I think it hurt from a sports department aspect. He fully supported Harp and his decisions. Most presidents don’t support sports.
As for the wokeness, yeah.
But Be careful what you wish for.
Why is the hometown paper writing an obvious hit piece on the hometown university, WTF?
I want an unbiased press. If it's the truth, report it. Regardless of who it hurts.
However if there is nuance or layers or context to the story report that as well. And I feel there were aspects of this story intentionally left out or glossed over. Why? Don't know, won't venture a guess...But it sure feels like this was intentionally written in a way to cast the worst light on current UNLV administration. Why? Don't know.
Who, oh, who could possibly be calling in all the favors to slant these articles.
Also, over the years the money given to the community college up north vs what UNLV has received.
Not even close... this may be more damaging but not even close. Most schools don't have the full contracts "I'm the bank". This is shallow reporting. The Sluka NIL deal was also blown out of proportion because of how it happened. Beard was the only one that really caused damage to the university that hasn't been fixed. But BOR needs to stop meddling in things they don't understand
Washington state is almost a quarter of a billion dollars in the hole. 100 million owed to institution itself (taking money from parking, housing, etc), and another 120 million outside the institution.
Now, I"m not suggesting that deficit spending is necessarily a good model to follow, but at 30 million in debt I'm not concerned at all about the 7 million a year for Mullen and staff as long as they are putting a good product on the field I think those will pay for themselves and the Rebel Up initiative is going to help a lot once it gets fully vested. Hell, Mullen has already increased Season ticket sales over Odom's all time high by almost a thousand and they're saying those gains alone are worth 700k a yearonce you calculate all the attached spending (parking, concessions, seat license, admission, souvenirs, in-stadium advertising)in raw ticket sales, not tangential profits--my bad.
This article is about as nothing-burger with alarmist clickbait title as you can get. Makes me long for the journalistic integrity of Joe Hawk.
Now, I"m not suggesting that deficit spending is necessarily a good model to follow, but at 30 million in debt I'm not concerned at all about the 7 million a year for Mullen and staff as long as they are putting a good product on the field I think those will pay for themselves and the Rebel Up initiative is going to help a lot once it gets fully vested. Hell, Mullen has already increased Season ticket sales over Odom's all time high by almost a thousand and they're saying those gains alone are worth 700k a year
This article is about as nothing-burger with alarmist clickbait title as you can get. Makes me long for the journalistic integrity of Joe Hawk.
Someone has an agenda this was crafted purposefully to make Harper look incompetent. No idea the who behind it, or the motive. Its a strange thing to post right before spring practice opening up. I'm certain we don't have a separate account completely covering Mullen's contract, just like we don't for any other coach. Those all come out of budget when they get crafted an assembled each year.
Forgive me if I'm interpreting this article wrong. English is my third language. At least to me the article is utter nonsense.
Forgive me if I'm interpreting this article wrong. English is my third language. At least to me the article is utter nonsense.
You may note that they also opened up the EL (Loge) seat that are located on the second level on the east side of the stadium. These seats sell for $2,250 each and when they first opened up for sale, they showed all the seats from EL1-EL24 for sale. Each section has 8 seats, for a total of 192 seats. Current they show only 14 seats not currently sold. If these seats have been sold, a total of 178 sold, then that would be an additional $400,000 in ticket sales.
The article is a result of poor communication and transparency by UNLV (Whitfield and Harp) with the Board of Regents as to the budget and the plan for addressing the deficit over time. It opened the door for the BOR to grandstand and the Regents up north to sew division. Make no mistake they want to derail UNLV’s progression towards a P4 conference. Folks need to wake up and begin calling BS on the Board of Regents at their meetings or they will run off Harper and Mullen will follow. It’s one thing to berate the AD in a private meeting, it is quite another to do so at a public meeting. That is done intentionally and with a purposeful objective. It is a shame that some of those regents are from southern NV. Wake up folks!!
If Harper leaves UNLV will go back to the Stone Age and progress will come to a screeching halt!
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Maybe, but the BOR is a lot more harsh towards UNLV than Reno. They are very critical of leadership, finances, and they like to use UNLV to thump their fiscal chests while funding UNRs pet projects. UNLV has overtaken Reno as the states premier institution and they hate that.
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