If you go all the way back to Tarkanian days of UNLV, the elephant in the room has always been the "alleged" connection of the sports programs to outside influences. Of course it has never been proven, but the closer investigators got, the further UNLV sports programs fell. I'm not sorry the Pac isn't crawling into bed with UNLV. That's always going to be a ticking time bomb I'd want no part of.
If you go all the way back to Tarkanian days of UNLV, the elephant in the room has always been the "alleged" connection of the sports programs to outside influences. Of course it has never been proven, but the closer investigators got, the further UNLV sports programs fell. I'm not sorry the Pac isn't crawling into bed with UNLV. That's always going to be a ticking time bomb I'd want no part of.
Coming from SoCal, I chuckle when people were clamoring for UNLV... Here we all know it's a huge party school that is not taken seriously for academics.... And no one started talking about football until recently, it's been considered pretty low level in almost everything
When you get turned down for a prom date it's real easy to say she wasn't that pretty, anyway.
UNLV has tremendous media potential in one of the fastest growing markets in the country. Their $20MM debt? Washington State's athletic department is $100MM in debt.
Roughly 3/4 of WSU's debt are from low interst bonds that are systematically being retired over the next 15 years. We borrowed $80M to build the Football Ops center and revitalize Bohler. Its not like the $240m bomb in Tucson or the $11M "accounting error" with the Moses Lake School District in Washington.
It's called Sales Rich, was disappointed that we offered those two in the first place, happy as a clam they chose the MWest. Now they both can dominate a crummy conference and very happy that the best 5 CHOSE the PAC.
If the idea is to build the 5th best conference in college football, you're not going to do it by adding the Utah State's of the world while getting publicly embarrassed when 5 other programs - including UNLV - have told you to take a hike. The Pac-12 is foraging around like they have no idea what they're doing.
I think they have a good idea what they are doing, but I think they now understand how far that Southern Tory-Brit alliance reaches. If UNLV and Air Force want to hang with Hawaii, Wyoming and New Mexico, so be it. They had their chance.
If you go all the way back to Tarkanian days of UNLV, the elephant in the room has always been the "alleged" connection of the sports programs to outside influences. Of course it has never been proven, but the closer investigators got, the further UNLV sports programs fell. I'm not sorry the Pac isn't crawling into bed with UNLV. That's always going to be a ticking time bomb I'd want no part of.
Coming from SoCal, I chuckle when people were clamoring for UNLV... Here we all know it's a huge party school that is not taken seriously for academics.... And no one started talking about football until recently, it's been considered pretty low level in almost everything
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When you get turned down for a prom date it's real easy to say she wasn't that pretty, anyway.
UNLV has tremendous media potential in one of the fastest growing markets in the country. Their $20MM debt? Washington State's athletic department is $100MM in debt.
Roughly 3/4 of WSU's debt are from low interst bonds that are systematically being retired over the next 15 years. We borrowed $80M to build the Football Ops center and revitalize Bohler. Its not like the $240m bomb in Tucson or the $11M "accounting error" with the Moses Lake School District in Washington.
UNLV is a dumpster fire, just like the city. Only good for one thing.
It's called Sales Rich, was disappointed that we offered those two in the first place, happy as a clam they chose the MWest. Now they both can dominate a crummy conference and very happy that the best 5 CHOSE the PAC.
If the idea is to build the 5th best conference in college football, you're not going to do it by adding the Utah State's of the world while getting publicly embarrassed when 5 other programs - including UNLV - have told you to take a hike. The Pac-12 is foraging around like they have no idea what they're doing.
I think they have a good idea what they are doing, but I think they now understand how far that Southern Tory-Brit alliance reaches. If UNLV and Air Force want to hang with Hawaii, Wyoming and New Mexico, so be it. They had their chance.