How could Tark be "uncertain" about where LJ--the heart and SOUL of that team-- was?

I love LJ...LOVE LJ...but, really, he couldn't show up for THAT? I hope he has a fantastic excuse.

Actually, the solution for making UNLV a better football team as well as give the university a chance at hiring a big-name coach is simple: The MWC needs to become a BCS conference. End of story.

If the MWC was granted inclusion into the BCS cartel the positive by-products would be innumerable. Being part and parcel to a BCS conference would validate every single program in the Mountain West Conference. As a result, you would not have top flight coaches turn down the UNLV job--not because they are a historically bad football team--but because there is ZERO chance to win a National Championship.

Top notch coaches are just as competitive as top notch athletes. They enjoy the challenge--but ONLY if the reward is on par with the challenge. If the right kind of big-name hire is out there, with a chip on his shoulder and something to prove, I have no doubt he would consider UNLV if we were in a BCS conference simply because a.)he knows that he would be able to lure higher caliber recruits and b.)he would have a shot to win a BCS Championship with those recruits.

Yes, the solution is simple and obvious: The MWC MUST be included in the BCS. Period.

Thanks for going out of your way to keep us up on how things are going for you out in Ely, Jason. I look forward to reading each of your blogs so that I can get an inside look on how you guys are doing and how you guys are getting along as a team. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated. Thanks again, Jason.

Cannon, here's the link to the clip you asked for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vZgz6BKF...

And I meant "they're" not "their"...

I bet you were all fired up to rebut my "lack of intellectual flaws" statement but then that smile turned upside down with this correction.

Let this be a living lesson to you all that Firefox spell check doesn't recognize the miss-use of homophones (these are words that SOUND alike but have different meanings and spellings).

Fastcamron--

Oh, I have flaws, but their not the intellectual kind. I'm shorter than I'd like to be, I can't golf as well as I'd like to, and I wish I had more patience for people like you.

Your last statement regarding taxes explains a lot. You're a mis-informed Republican. You should probably stick to the Review Journal.

And Fastcamron says:

"I guess I'm an ignorant moron too. Certainly I, as well as most others, understand the reference to colonists but I didn't know that Ali refused to enter the Vietnam war and I love & study U.S. history often."

You love to study U.S. history often but, apparently, you lack the mental dexterity to understand something in the context that it's written in (i.e. the ability to infer, from the context of what was written, what it's referring to--even when you're clueless as to the meaning).

It's okay, critical thinking skills are an acquired skill that takes some people longer than others to develop. You'll get there...someday.

JerryWayne--you can't tell, just by the context of the statement, that Ali refused to enlist in the military when he was drafted to fight in Vietnam?

The Viet Cong is what the Northern Vietnamese were called. Ali said that he wouldn't fight because "he had nothing against them."

Seriously, dude, try Google instead of ripping the writer just because he didn't write a story custom tailored to YOU.

Call this Blasphemy, but the ONLY time I bet on UNLV is against them. The reasoning is simple, really: I figure out how much I'd be willing to PAY to have UNLV win that particular game, bet that amount, and then I'm happy either way (ie. if they win--that's what I paid for. If they lose--hey, I made some money to pay for the booze I'm likely to sulk in.)

I never got Tark's book (although I will be soon) so this may have been addressed there, but I would like to ask him if there is any truth to the talk that, before playing games in high-altitude environments, Tark would tell the players that, "it's indoors so the altitude won't make a difference." To me, if true, that has to be one of the all time classic Tark lines.