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[WarthogRebel]

A team in UNLV's position needs to play a schedule that allows success. I believe with an easier schedule we' d have been bowling this year. This would help us in many ways.

Example. This year we played the 62nd most difficult schedule in the NCAA. ( Sagarin ratings) Ended up 2-10 and everyone is dissippointed. UTEP played the 132nd most difficult schedule and ended up in the New Mexico bowl and ended with a 7-6 record.

This year we had ASU and ISU. Do we need the $$ that bad? If so, why did we pay one of the best FCS teams in EWU to beat us - what the he** is that?

We should absolutely have one game a year where we get paid big. We should have another where we pay someone as little as possible so we can beat them up. And the two additional games we have outside of conference should be FBS bottom feeders. We need to go into conference play every year with three wins so we have a chance to win three in conference and get to a bowl. It's not like UNLV is going to get ranked - let's at least go to a crappy bowl.

We should always have a realistic path to six wins and it wasn't there this year. UTEP proved you can be the 132nd best team and still get to a bowl. Let's start shooting for that.

 

[bcvegaspt]

Our road games can be against whoever. Bottom dwellers welcomed. I’m cool with that.

Where the problem lies is that we built a $2B stadium “partially” for us. I’d schedule Wisconsin or BYU every year for revenue sake.

 

[rebel5280]

A team in UNLV's position needs to play a schedule that allows success. I believe with an easier schedule we' d have been bowling this year. This would help us in many ways.

Example. This year we played the 62nd most difficult schedule in the NCAA. ( Sagarin ratings) Ended up 2-10 and everyone is dissippointed. UTEP played the 132nd most difficult schedule and ended up in the New Mexico bowl and ended with a 7-6 record.

This year we had ASU and ISU. Do we need the $$ that bad? If so, why did we pay one of the best FCS teams in EWU to beat us - what the he** is that?

We should absolutely have one game a year where we get paid big. We should have another where we pay someone as little as possible so we can beat them up. And the two additional games we have outside of conference should be FBS bottom feeders. We need to go into conference play every year with three wins so we have a chance to win three in conference and get to a bowl. It's not like UNLV is going to get ranked - let's at least go to a crappy bowl.

We should always have a realistic path to six wins and it wasn't there this year. UTEP proved you can be the 132nd best team and still get to a bowl. Let's start shooting for that.

Agreed!

Go bowling a few years in a row and see what that does for the UNLV football program!

 

[rebelfan1969]

A team in UNLV's position needs to play a schedule that allows success. I believe with an easier schedule we' d have been bowling this year. This would help us in many ways.

Example. This year we played the 62nd most difficult schedule in the NCAA. ( Sagarin ratings) Ended up 2-10 and everyone is dissippointed. UTEP played the 132nd most difficult schedule and ended up in the New Mexico bowl and ended with a 7-6 record.

This year we had ASU and ISU. Do we need the $$ that bad? If so, why did we pay one of the best FCS teams in EWU to beat us - what the he** is that?

We should absolutely have one game a year where we get paid big. We should have another where we pay someone as little as possible so we can beat them up. And the two additional games we have outside of conference should be FBS bottom feeders. We need to go into conference play every year with three wins so we have a chance to win three in conference and get to a bowl. It's not like UNLV is going to get ranked - let's at least go to a crappy bowl.

We should always have a realistic path to six wins and it wasn't there this year. UTEP proved you can be the 132nd best team and still get to a bowl. Let's start shooting for that.

I think there are too many Crummy bowl games. Getting to a bowl game may help recruiting, though. It is also expensive to go to a bowl game. I guess I feel strongly both ways !

 

[rebel5280]

Any publicity is good publicity! And getting to a bowl a few years in a row would be some good “pub” for UNLV!

 

[UNLVINMD]

Was this like the NIT for women's volleyball? Didn't they win the conference tourney? No autobids in volleyball I guess.

Our road games can be against whoever. Bottom dwellers welcomed. I’m cool with that.

Where the problem lies is that we built a $2B stadium “partially” for us. I’d schedule Wisconsin or BYU every year for revenue sake.

Every Labor Day, UNLV should be playing a team from PAC/SEC/BIG Ten or BIG 12, nothing else or BYU, in 2023, USC and LSU play in Vegas over that weekend, you have 2B stadium in Vegas use it to your advantage and get a coach who can win with all the facilities UNLV has over every freaking MWC team, make a freaking commitment to win instead of excuses.
I agree on BYU should start a 10 year home and home, in Vegas every other year. South Carolina is bottom feeder SEC team, however they bring 30K to Vegas, it's win win situation, the UNLV administration is a freaking joke, never mind, it's too early to get pissed at UNLV for everything they done wrong in 30 years. It amazes me back in the 70's the football program was good, and could fill Silver Bowl with 18k in 15k stadium with 250K in the valley, Vegas loves winners, it's not that hard, hell BSU and freaking Reno can win, why can't UNLV?

 

[WarthogRebel]

Every Labor Day, UNLV should be playing a team from PAC/SEC/BIG Ten or BIG 12, nothing else or BYU, in 2023, USC and LSU play in Vegas over that weekend, you have 2B stadium in Vegas use it to your advantage and get a coach who can win with all the facilities UNLV has over every freaking MWC team, make a freaking commitment to win instead of excuses.
I agree on BYU should start a 10 year home and home, in Vegas every other year. South Carolina is bottom feeder SEC team, however they bring 30K to Vegas, it's win win situation, the UNLV administration is a freaking joke, never mind, it's too early to get pissed at UNLV for everything they done wrong in 30 years. It amazes me back in the 70's the football program was good, and could fill Silver Bowl with 18k in 15k stadium with 250K in the valley, Vegas loves winners, it's not that hard, hell BSU and freaking Reno can win, why can't UNLV?

"Vegas loves winners, it's not that hard, hell BSU and freaking Reno can win, why can't UNLV?"

It is that hard and we prove it every year. You can't throw this team against multiple top 40 teams and expect us to win enough to go bowling. It's not as though we are looking for rankings, we just need to win enough to avoid having to fire a coach every four years, let our players see some success and have a decent shot at recruiting. Go bowling three years in a row and then up the schedule, but don't keep doing what we did this year or we won't have anybody to do it with.

 

[rebel5280]

"Vegas loves winners, it's not that hard, hell BSU and freaking Reno can win, why can't UNLV?"

It is that hard and we prove it every year. You can't throw this team against multiple top 40 teams and expect us to win enough to go bowling. It's not as though we are looking for rankings, we just need to win enough to avoid having to fire a coach every four years, let our players see some success and have a decent shot a recruiting. Go bowling three years in a row and then up the schedule, but don't keep doing what we did this year or we won't have anybody to do it with.

We don’t have to play all of the top 40 but you do have $2B dollar stadium to think about.. It would be nice to play 1 top team and 3 winnable games in September but I suspect the need for money is going to rear it’s ugly head behind the scenes and the best we could hope for in September is 2 top teams and two winnable games on the schedule. Sooner or later the elephant in the room has to be addressed, competing better in MWC league play. We need to be good enough to be able to win 4-5 games every year in conference! If not what are they doing over there?

 

[Rebel1986]

I keep reading about how we need to schedule weak teams for out of conference to have a winning record, but we have a conference full of relatively week teams that UNLV should already be able to beat. Go and play 3 or 4 lower division or bottom feeder programs like UNLV, and attendance will just go the other way. How many people are going to pay to watch UNLV play a boring schedule? It is already enough with teams like SJSU, Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah State, and unr next season, etc. UNLV just needs to improve a little and they will start winning games. This last season UNLV could have easily beat EWU, FSU, UTSA, Utah State, SJSU, and SDSU. UNLV lost all of those games by single digits, and in most cases they were winning late in the games, but came up short late in the fourth quarter. Winning those games would have made UNLV an 8-4 team this season! Schedule to win is what they did for the last time UNLV went to a bowl game where they got there asses handed to them in a bowl game and went right back downhill the next year when they went back to a normal schedule. In 2013 UNLV went 7-6 but only beat one team SDSU that had a winning record. They then lost 36-14 to North Texas in a game that they could have easily lost by 40.

 

[unlove]

Agree with this post given our current (historical) situation. Get some positive mojo going, okay some weak bowls, get noticed, provide a positive base for recruiting, take some small steps forward and continue to build. Upgrade schedule accordingly as the program moves forward. Gotta have some wins and can’t expect the team to upset top-50 programs on a yearly basis. Hopefully this process begins next season. More seasoned team with a much easier schedule than this year.

 

[UNLVINMD]

"Vegas loves winners, it's not that hard, hell BSU and freaking Reno can win, why can't UNLV?"

It is that hard and we prove it every year. You can't throw this team against multiple top 40 teams and expect us to win enough to go bowling. It's not as though we are looking for rankings, we just need to win enough to avoid having to fire a coach every four years, let our players see some success and have a decent shot at recruiting. Go bowling three years in a row and then up the schedule, but don't keep doing what we did this year or we won't have anybody to do it with.

You pick schools like S. Carolina bottom team but will fan base that will travel to Vegas, there no reason why UNLV cant be a top 50 program, bring Kentucky in football, make a commitment and do it.
Idaho st next yr at home, I am sure bus loads will be coming down.
My point labor day should be huge game then play 2 winnable games at home in non conference. Outside of Boise, there's not top 50 program in MWC, plus BSU hasn't won conference in couple of yrs, freaking Utah st was what 11 and 2 in Logan, ut.

 

[WarthogRebel]

You pick schools like S. Carolina bottom team but will fan base that will travel to Vegas, there no reason why UNLV cant be a top 50 program, bring Kentucky in football, make a commitment and do it.
Idaho st next yr at home, I am sure bus loads will be coming down.
My point labor day should be huge game then play 2 winnable games at home in non conference. Outside of Boise, there's not top 50 program in MWC, plus BSU hasn't won conference in couple of yrs, freaking Utah st was what 11 and 2 in Logan, ut.

We aren't in the same universe as Utah State. They went bowling eight of the last 10 years. We've been to four bowls in 43 years. It isn't a winning arguement to compare Utah State football to UNLV football.

We need to crawl before we walk and walk before we run. But right now we can't get out of the crib to start to crawl. Over the past 20 years we are arguably the worst FBS program. Period. If we are going to get decent athletes to come and stay we need to win and playing multiple games with a 5%-10% winning probability isn't going to do it.

According to sagarin ratings (includes FCS Teams) we had the 62nd SOS this year. The following programs went bowling and each one of them has been an FBS program for 10 years or less. TEN YEARS. UTSA ( 110) Old Dominion ( 121 ) Liberty (109) Coastal Carolina (146) Ga. State ( 100)

Take Coastal Carolina. Played one P5 bottom feeder ( Kansas) and three other FBS bottom feeder teams for their OOC. Ended up 11-2 and went to a bowl beating NIU. Most of us would consider an 11-2 season with a bowl win as an amazing success - no matter who we played. Well, the way to do it is to lighten the schedule.

Next years schedule is closer to what we need. Two winable games at home. Cal and Notre Dame away. If we can beat our two home opponents and get 4 confernce wins we'll be on our way.