Kind of an all over the place post. Based on a mix of actual info and my own opinions.
UNLV is going to do well in the portal. Very well, I think. I also think we are going to lose some players, some players that matter, some players that haven't played yet, some players ... that's going to be the nature of the portal going forward.
UNLV showed alot of ingenuity and excitement in their offense and it's going to draw some nice players. Of course, winning helps, but when you do it in a way that's appealing, it's going to attract eyes. What we ran this year and our success with it is mattering.
When I think of the opposite, sadly, I think of our own basketball team. We struggle, so winning isn't attracting anybody. The offense is ugly as hell and there's nothing fluid or exciting about it. You could say the same about SDSU in a sense, their offense isn't exciting at all, it's a grind. But they have a history of winning and they sell toughness and playing defense, they won't waste time on you if that's not what you are about, and it works for them.
When we land some players, don't get too excited, hoops or football. It may not last, it may flip. When we lose a player from current roster, it might suck, but there are quality replacements (at least for football). The portal has really, really changed everything about college sports - along with NIL. The team building of today vs yesteryear aren't even 7th cousins, they aren't really related at all.
I really do like the direction of football, there is a ton of momentum regardless of how the last two games play out. They did it for a long enough period and the product is so drastically different (we went from 30 year streetwalker crack addict to a small house in the suburbs and a 40 hour per week respectable job that pays all the bills), it brought in alot for the program and school. Basketball is traveling the opposite way, from high on wall street to scraping for your next binge on skid row.
I also fully and wholeheartedly believe that one head coach will be here next year and the other will not, barring anything outrageous.
UNLV is going to do well in the portal. Very well, I think. I also think we are going to lose some players, some players that matter, some players that haven't played yet, some players ... that's going to be the nature of the portal going forward.
UNLV showed alot of ingenuity and excitement in their offense and it's going to draw some nice players. Of course, winning helps, but when you do it in a way that's appealing, it's going to attract eyes. What we ran this year and our success with it is mattering.
When I think of the opposite, sadly, I think of our own basketball team. We struggle, so winning isn't attracting anybody. The offense is ugly as hell and there's nothing fluid or exciting about it. You could say the same about SDSU in a sense, their offense isn't exciting at all, it's a grind. But they have a history of winning and they sell toughness and playing defense, they won't waste time on you if that's not what you are about, and it works for them.
When we land some players, don't get too excited, hoops or football. It may not last, it may flip. When we lose a player from current roster, it might suck, but there are quality replacements (at least for football). The portal has really, really changed everything about college sports - along with NIL. The team building of today vs yesteryear aren't even 7th cousins, they aren't really related at all.
I really do like the direction of football, there is a ton of momentum regardless of how the last two games play out. They did it for a long enough period and the product is so drastically different (we went from 30 year streetwalker crack addict to a small house in the suburbs and a 40 hour per week respectable job that pays all the bills), it brought in alot for the program and school. Basketball is traveling the opposite way, from high on wall street to scraping for your next binge on skid row.
I also fully and wholeheartedly believe that one head coach will be here next year and the other will not, barring anything outrageous.
