He’s committing at 6 PM tonight. Word is that he’s committing to UNLV.
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That would be awesome! I've only seen a handful of videos of him, but for those that know more, how ready would you say he is to step into meaningful minutes as a freshman next year, assuming he does commit to UNLV?
If Kruger can pick up a commit by him, that would be a positive move in the right direction in regards to recruiting.
Does he still commit to UNLV if CKK is not the HC?? The same goes for D. Thomas. IF he even has entered the thought about staying next year. The ONLY way u let CKK go is with a Grand Slam or at the minimum a Homer Run hire
Not the only way ,but im getting tired of these "REBUILDS" every 3-5 years,
It doesnt matter. You dont need either of those players to stay if you make the right hire and they can bring and recruit their own roster. Yes, itd be great to keep Dedan, it'd be great to land a local big guy like Stanton... but keeping a player or a recruit who will inevitably underperform what their abilities can achieve here because the staff is underwhelming makes no sense. If they want to stay for the new HC and make UNLV a national brand again, Im all for it, but the roster turns over 70-80% every year anyways at this point, keeping an underperforming HC year after year because of "recruits" makes no sense in todays transfer market.
Also to he point of rebuilds every 3-5 years, were a mid-major program with a mid-major budget. The roster turnover and coaching turnover when successful is inevitable. That doesnt mean that it always needs to be a full rebuild every cycle.
What CKK has done is a mix of the free flowing transfer market, missing out on recruits, not keeping recruits, and needing to replace transfers they brought in but didnt work out. Its a terrible cycle that Ive been saying since year 1 was a mistake for him to do. He tried to jumpstart his build with Bryce and transfers who didnt pan out and jetisoned young talent along the way. Then he gets himself into that year 2 entering year 3 area where he hasnt developed a young core and instead tries to balance young talent with high level Sr transfers. It got us NIT and thats basically the plateau. Now he tooks a different approach and got a bunch of young core guys and young transfers and hopes that a year or 2 of coaching up creates that culture they needed to develop in his first 2 years. If they win this year, it wont be because of just Dedan.. Itll be because a bunch of role players got together and played their roles around that star, allowing each to be better together. We havent seen that and that will be the key to if we are good enough this year to warrant another or not.
That is one forecast that is at a medium level by a guy that rarely picks anyone outside of Michigan. Maybe he has inside information, or maybe he is just guessing.
We aren’t going to outbid BYU, never were going to … if there’s more to it to make up what is a sizable gap, maybe … I just don’t know what that would be. Getting guys to the league? Having a chance to win on a big stage? Playing time?
Playing time and not being BYU... but yeah, its not just the national exposure of the P4.. BYU has a deep donor class and alumni base we dont have with those pockets...
Stanford is a no brainer. bYU is iffy, you can’t have sex with Mormon chicks without getting snitched on. Michigan is a f’n mess right now. Interesting to see where UNLV is at.
$$$$$$. Plus Ryan Smith is active in helping with recruiting. When you can offer a players big buck$ plus have the owner of an NBA team bring a recruit to the NBA arena and talk to a kid about playing in the NBA and telling him BYU can help him get there. How does UNLV top that?
Winning....
But maybe we stop chasing pipe dreams and start landing solid recruits who want that just win...
But maybe we stop chasing pipe dreams and start landing solid recruits who want that just win...
But we arent winning.
I dont blame Kevin for going for top players but but only way he gets them at this time is if they have a great desire to play for UNLV. I agree he needs to focus on and get some solid players and keep very active in the portal.
I would love to see his NIL contract. How much? How many years does he need to play to get the money? Penalties for transfer? It may be that it is impossible to compete, just like an FCS school can’t compete with Ohio State for talent. There are maybe 300 top players at any given time. There are more than enough billionaires to get each one of them $1 million contract. Depressing.
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Money talks. Our NIL is pretty pathetic in comparison to BYU. If NIL was here during Kruger and Rice years, it would be healthy. (Yes I know they still got paid), but I think there would have been a ton more interest from the city to donate into that fund esp since pro sports weren’t here yet
We had vested interest in the program back then. There were actual expectations. So people put some money where their mouth was, people expended personal energies to help things work.
Oh, there’s still a little of both.
When you embrace “slow growth”, “just give them a few years” and any improvement, if any, is microscopic … while others seem to figure it out …. It breeds apathy. Until your new normal is cemented in place.
There are certain posters who are like the kiss of death when it comes to predicting anything involving UNLV. So whenever I see their predictions, I generally take the opposite course of thinking
BYU is pulling in a lot of elite recruits for football and basketball these days. Is it because of their Big 12 status? Did they relax their academic restrictions? NIL deals?
All you need is one or two billionaires who are willing to put up boatloads of cash.
I ever hit the lottery. Depending on how big i would fund BB ( my first love) then if won enough it would also be FB. A few million could support BB for several years. Depending on who the HC is also. LOL.
When you got Hogie Yogi as an NIL backer, the possibilities are endless
If I had a $B in the bank I’d write massive checks to UNLV teams. That would be so much fun and so much more rewarding than sinking it into a pro team. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 for a savior!!!
I was told that he was coming here, too, and argued major points as to why it wouldn't happen. Too much influence for him to commit to us.
Long enough that it almost seems as if the greatness really didn’t happen. And the dip has been so significant that they aren’t even 8th cousins. Not close to being related. Team name, colors, the Mack … that’s the only commonality.
Quit living in the past ….
What choice to you have given the current and the reasonably expected future?
I for one think that is a healthy way to view the program going forward. Until they prove otherwise, this isnt the program that won a National title in the early 90's and went to F4s. Its not even the same level of program as the end of Kruger and Rice times. Its a mediocre mid-major, defined by a smaller and smaller group of die-hard fans that support the program no matter what and more and more apathetic fans that want to see the program return to just making the NCAA regularly vs caring that we won a National title 3 decades ago.
Heck, we havent even won a outright conference title since 2000. There are grad students in medical or law school that havent seen UNLV win a conference championship in their lifetimes. Football right now is just showing how dumb the past decade of hires has been.
UNLV could make the best hire ever, get every single break and we wouldn’t achieve what we once had. Special time, special place, most of what needed to align did. It’s an unfair standard for anyone after Tark.
But reaching for that should always be the goal. Fall short of a lofty target will yield more than aiming low and hitting the target.
I despised Rollie, but his teams were better. Granted, JR Rider. But even his following team.
Grg and Bayno year one … certainly our first rock bottom. But Bayno did the NIT in year two and NCAAT year three. But he showed actual growth. Real growth, not microscopic “slow growth”.
Spoons teams were better. Only NIT worthy, but certainly better. Obvious Krug Sr was better, Rice was better and the than now.
It’s the 10 years of nothingness, nothing to sink your teeth into at all. Nothing that generates pride or interest. It’s been a long time.
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