We can’t afford salaries for decent coaches or AD’s.... but we are now going to be competitive with payment to 70 or so scholarship football players; plus 13 basketball players. Golf, which Knight could raise himself, but that’s another 5 or 6.... baseball currently gets 8 or 9 (?) to split among players, let’s make it entire team... Title IX, double the total number... so let’s find the cash to pay 200-300 student athletes. And let’s be competitive. Things HAVE to be equal and across the board, can’t have people screaming about discrimination. Let’s be competitive and make it 100k per. So that’s 200-3,000,0000 per year. Yeah; we got this.
I have no clue on the numbers, just threw garbage out there. But UNLV doesn’t have the cash. Go to state for the cash? They won’t have it and if they do, it would go to UNR first anyway.
But don’t be surprised. It may not happen this go round but it will change slowly... and with every little change it’s going to be a disadvantage to UNLV... and the gap will increase. Conference affiliation can be your only safety net.
So decades of stagnation, non-improvement, being happy with the status quo, poor athletic directors with zero vision, innovation or ability .... plenty of time was there to improve and fix and it was ignored.
It’s the former athlete that gains a little bit of weight, knows it’s a problem, knows it’s going to be a long term problem, they do nothing about it, keep gaining weight, here’s the type 2, keep eating at buffets starting at the dessert line, here comes the peripheral issues, the tingling; the start of kidney failure, early stages, medicine isn’t effective, things progress because the basics aren’t taken care of; time for a little bit of dialysis to buy time.... family (fans) can’t do a damn thing, they watch you slowly die and an earlier than necessary death. All preventable.... neglect of the known....
