Rick Pitino Coming?
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I have found Vital Vegas as one of the most reliable sources of news well in advance of any formal announcement and usually early on speculation. Their twitter account is largely comedic and amusing in general, but when it comes to news, typically they are well informed.
Hmmm, Rick had MM as an assistant for years and I think they have good relationship. So he would replace his old assistant?
Does not smell right to me. I do not think MM real good, but this does not make sense to me.
Does not smell right to me. I do not think MM real good, but this does not make sense to me.
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I asked Mark Anderson of the RJ on twitter about this tweet and he said "not true" . I'm pretty sure Vital Vegas was just seeing how many Rebel fans would bite & there were a lot. He does like to stir the pot for fun.
Well apparently Pitino is UCLA's top target now so it might not matter for us. If the UNLV job opened up again it would only be fitting for Rick to spurn us one more time.
The thing I liked best about the tweet was the $2.5 million number. Maybe we have some boosters ready to open the check book next time the job opens. $2.5 is a solid salary and should get us a coach that's already a proven winner.
The thing I liked best about the tweet was the $2.5 million number. Maybe we have some boosters ready to open the check book next time the job opens. $2.5 is a solid salary and should get us a coach that's already a proven winner.
In early summer 2013 I asked Matt Youmans if there was anything to the rumors that Savon Goodman was facing criminal charges and he "checked it out" and said "not true".
Unrelated... but "you don't know what you don't know".
Are you saying the Vital Vegas guy is unreliable? What are the "misses" you have seen them have in their gossip? In early December he (Scott Roeben) broke the rumor that the UNLV poop emoji logo had been shelved, and even went into it on his weekly local gossip appearance on Channel 8 News. Other than that I don't know anything about Vital Vegas.
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not as sad or shameful as your need to tell us how great douche bag, sorry, maxson was.
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It's sad that some school would forfeit their basketball future and huge fortunes and the greatest source of pride the city had by ousting Tarkanian. You "won"; all the tight little teetotalling holier than thou academians who find checkers too much of an athletic challenge - you won. The school, the program, the city lost.
I know it's pathetic. It's not like sports bring in any money or publicity to said school(s). We do have a lot of people that show up and pay to watch kids take finals though. 
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Regarding the past; you seem to be the one who harps on Maxson and the past at UNLV that destroyed UNLV hoops.
.Regarding the past; you seem to be the one who harps on Maxson and the past at UNLV that destroyed UNLV hoops.
lvhiker - I was at school when Maxson was the president and that guy didn't care about the truth, didn't care about UNLV, and didn't care about the students. I witnessed numerous times where he would openly lie and say whatever he believed would further his future career, there is no difference between Maxson and a snake oil salesman, so please do not try to compare our athletic department to a sleaze like Maxson!
Only a game.
That game provided more to the school than you ever have. If not for that game, you might not have had a job in Las Vegas.
It was more than a game to a lot of us. I don’t you to understand it, though I’m sure you do; you have no shame for the things you’ve helped to do.
My getting a job at unlv had nothing to do with basketball. Tarkanian arrived the same year as I did, 1973. As far as athletics being a cash cow, data collected by USA Today and furnished to the Knight Commission paints a starkly different picture. Only EIGHT public universities had athletic departments that broke even or generated a surplus in each year between 2005 and 2009.
Not easy for a department that is losing money to fund anything on the academic side of the university.
Not easy for a department that is losing money to fund anything on the academic side of the university.
Name any public universities that made a profit based on academics either. The simple point is that athletics opens up most universities to name recognition for both academic donations and for student applications. Go back and look at the huge jump in applications to UNLV after they won the national championship.
Based on your statement: " Not easy for a department that is losing money to fund anything on the academic side of the university." The education departments are not funding anything on the academic side either!
Based on your statement: " Not easy for a department that is losing money to fund anything on the academic side of the university." The education departments are not funding anything on the academic side either!
He’s naming years long after Tark was done. For a stretch, UNLV led the nation in merchandising too.
He won’t acknowledge any good by Tarkanian. The university was known because of Tarkanian and quite frankly, at that time especially, academically the school was a complete joke for the vast majority of programs.
It chapped the asses of a lot of dorky academians that Tark outshined them by thousands of miles, I know, that’s when I attended - and some professors let it be known. Petty jealously.
Then you had great people/professors like Dr. Baepler (RIP) who understood the two go hand in hand. But some of the others, wow. Tiny dorks.
Joe, please read what I have said about Tarkanian in the post “The gang that could not ...”
“... that he (Tarkanian) was the best college coach ever. “
Does that sound like I refuse to give Tarkanian any credit? I give him plenty of credit and he deserves it!
“... that he (Tarkanian) was the best college coach ever. “
Does that sound like I refuse to give Tarkanian any credit? I give him plenty of credit and he deserves it!
Regarding revenue generating during Jerry’s time. At the time of the 86-87 Final Four season UNLV’s mens basketball program generated a little over $3 million in revenue. It was just below 60% of the athletic department’s operating budget.
As of 88-89, it was generating revenue slightly above $5 million placing it the number revenue producing program in the country at the time. More than UNC, Indiana, Louisville, etc. Keep in mind the budget for the men’s program at the time was barely $1 million, quite a return.
As of the 90-91 season the men’s basketball program generated right at $7 million in revenue. The basketball program alone was generating enough revenue to support all of the other athletic programs at the time. That was more than triple the amount of money the athletic department received from the state and student fees.
For perspective, by the time Rollie resigned the men’s basketball program was losing right at $750,000 which was due in large part to the dramatic drop in season ticket sales. The university at the time had an $10.5 million operating deficit.
Even Jim Weaver who didn’t care for Jerry, his regime, admitted on ESPN in 1994, “basketball pays the bills at UNLV.”
Two other things to consider. Times are different now with the internet, but given how many times UNLV appeared on national T.V. at the time those sponsored ads promoting the school you couldn’t put a price tag on.
The other thing is where was all the money the basketball program was generating going? Certainly it wasn’t going back into the program, North Gym was their practice facility. Certainly wasn’t going to help the football program. Hell Jim Strong was barely earning $100,000 a year.
Many of us believed Maxson was taking a good portion of that revenue being generating and using it for his academic initiatives.
In the end, Bob Maxson and his ego killed the golden goose.
I don’t know how long you’ve been on this site, my guess is about 15 years? That you finally gave some credit to Tark just now says a lot. IMO, it’s a thinly veiled attempt, you had to swallow your pride in order to try and gain validation for a position that you knew was going to go over like a fart in a church.
Joe, I don't believe I have ever bad-mouthed Tarkanian. What I have tried to do, with astounding little success, is get a bit of balance into the picture of Tarkanian's departure from unlv. I think many posters implicitly read into those feeble attempts that I am denigrating Tarkanian.
I suppose for those that have a god-like opinion of Tarkanian, I am an apostate and deserve to be reviled. Meanwhile I will continue to try and infuse this site with a little balance.
In the meantime, I still enjoy following this year's rebel team. Go rebels.
I suppose for those that have a god-like opinion of Tarkanian, I am an apostate and deserve to be reviled. Meanwhile I will continue to try and infuse this site with a little balance.
In the meantime, I still enjoy following this year's rebel team. Go rebels.
I only stumbled onto this site five years ago but that's long enough to know that here isn't the place to sell a narrative of Robert Maxson being the god-like figure. What kind of reaction were you expecting?
I try to be opened minded, but your argument was that UNLV is going to be invited to join a P5 conference and when that happens the credit should go to Robert Maxson.
I actually believe that UNLV is still a long way from being invited to a P5 conference but that UNLV would today be much closer to that status by keeping Jerry Tarkanian instead of Robert Maxson. I will concede that Maxson accomplished some positive things during his ten years here, but when Maxson arrived in 1984 the football and basketball programs were on an upward trajectory and when he departed in 1994 both were on a downward trajectory so for him to get credit for moving UNLV toward P5 membership you need to back it up with a little more evidence.
There is no way in hell Rick Pitino is ever coaching college basketball again.
I fully disagree with this, I'm just not sure who his next victim will be.
We'll see. He is a great coach, so there might be a team willing to take a chance on him, but the blowback will be massive. It would be like if Art Briles got hired by another football program. Because he is a great coach you know some ADs across the country have had the thought, but they know the enormous amount of negativity towards their university just wouldn't be worth it.
I guarantee you Rick Pitino will coach college basketball again......................
I agree 100%. I wasn't saying hiring him would be a massive problem and potentially mistake, but someone will eventually take a chance on him. I don't know if Pitino is quite at the Briles level of criminal scandal... but maybe.
I have it from inside sources that there is a deal under way between RP and UNLV,...;..
Yea right
Yea right
