User profile: kirkland

Make the hire of Moos or Livengood now!

We went from Jerry being given serious consideration to now being able to get a D1 BCS Pac 10 AD? We better be thankful for this opportunity!

After going through - Finfrock, Charlie the paper boy, Robinson free loading and Hamrick the non personality.

We should be so lucky to get one of these guys. They would blow out all of the old boy guys out of the department, overhaul marketing, finally figure out how to get locals to really care, remove the favored nation status of local media outlets who are also in the pocket of UNLV and get us a real football coach. They would not let a JC program in baseball steal the thunder of UNLV's Baseball program. They would not put up with a Head Basketball Coach having to go outside of the University to get a PR campaign due to not having talent inside of the organization!

Major league College Sports can come to UNLV with either guy. A football game experience which is not about dirt parking, no college football scores given and a BYU Alumni President as your voice of the program as he roots for the Cougars to succeed.

Boy does that sound better than where we were at with the 2 local candidates and Jerry!

When the hotels got greedy for the umpteeth time and with the LVCVA spending money on Rossi's awards - not spending it on actually bringing or keeping an event in Las Vegas. Well - you get what you deserve.

No business = no new building
No business = reduced flight capacity making it near impossible to fill City Center without them taking business away from other hotels.

Seeing that Vdara is already selling at $129 a night in December - this will be a long painful process that will not get better.

Who is asking the LVCVA to be accountable for their business strategies and why they had their feet up on their desks instead of hitting the pavement? Their late reaction to sinking business levels in the time frame where they were promoting $300 a night luxury hotels as the future of Vegas in 2007 should be examined.

No one is doing this. While you might want to hate on Sheldon Adelson for his position on the LVCVA, he is the only one who has openly asked these questions.

Sad that so many people are paying the price.

No Tina is a really good thing. The good old boys network would have continued for years on end if this took place. Take one look at the Las Vegas Bowl Committee and see so many familiar faces - vast majority with no real involvement in College Football or Sports.Don Logan and his Wife on the committee = huh? Think about why this couple is on a board to make decisions about a bowl game. What do they bring to the table regarding this subject. If it involved minor league baseball - that is one thing. But - this is about football and putting them on this board (say what you want about being ceremonial) it just proves that in this small circle your back gets rubbed. This is what long time locals say is the good old boy network, something that needs to be done away with by the new AD.

As far as the student basketball ticket situation, this really has been a long standing problem. From the Tark years to now, the students (supposed to be around 24,000 on campus) seem to either be not interested or not made interested in coming out to basketball games. I dont see how graduating from UNLV would provide so much loyalty to bring these Alums back to support the program when so little was really done for them while they were on campus.

Bill Moos has got to be the pick here. This town is looking for someone to bring UNLV into the main stream. How many times have we seen UNLV of late play in a Great Alaska Shootout or Maui Invitational? UNLV is not as much on the national radar screen when it comes to hoops as even a Utah is at this point.

It is sad to say that UNLV has been searching for a strong front man for a long time. Someone who can get UNLV headed in the right direction in all sports. Someone who says that just because it has always been this way is not an excuse to why it should be continued.

Someone who can lift football up to where it should be. Someone who gets that 10 year old baseball players play year round and that UNLV has a poor baseball program smack in the center of a talent hotbed.

No one has provided a single answer on what Koloski does day to day in his current role. What could he have done at UNLV to create change It is hard to give a guy a job where no one can point to his accomplishments while being at UNLV, except for being a trainer on the UNLV Hoops team in the glory days

I hope the committee understands that there is more to learn from those outside of the community.

Sanford's postgame comments on TV, we have gone through so much all season long and I am happy for these kids today.

Gone through so much all season? Not happy for the fans to get this win. Did they not deserve to see a team win when they purchased tickets to watch the Rebels play?

He also comments that UNLV has back to back winning records at home for the first time since when ever. Sorry blow hard Sanford - all anyone asked was that you get bowl eligible and beat Nevada. You did neither. Do you think anyone will be talking about winning records at home in the off season?

It is so easy to see why Sanford never understood UNLV and the community by his comments. No wonder he could not get boosters to put money in for a new locker room?

It is all about himself and seeing the departures of Weis, Al Groh at Virginia and Steve Kragthorpe at Louisville - they left with class. Sanford can be only put into the same batch as Tommy West of Memphis - complain about what you dont have and never blame yourself for errors that you made among things that you could control.

He makes a comment on local LV radio about how he always recruited Las Vegas kids and did so harder than anyone else. He apparently did not see the comments of DP RB Michael Ball - how UNLV never offered until Nevada gave him an offer.

His comments wont help him land his next job and frankly should be challenged more than what we have seen by any media outlet in town. He did not love UNLV like Charlie Weis did at Notre Dame. But, he was the same as Weis in his ego being larger than life.

When he takes his first class seat to the Coaches Convention in January, watch how he will brag about his ability. I can not see him on a major coaching staff in the near future, as his complaining and lack of work are too evident to any Coach in their right mind to see.

Johnny Avello probably thinks that Will Ferrell should get an Academy Award nomination for his work in Land of the Lost based on his odds for UNLV Coach.

Ty Willingham is a hated man in Seattle for what he did at UW. Every practice was closed. Alumni were not invited back to be a part of the program. Could not Coach and beat in state WAZZU. Defense horrible - gives up over 500 yards on defense with over 400 in rushing yards in his last game against CAL.

Complete joke that rivals on par with Johnny thinking that Carmen Electra is getting an Academy Award Nomination for her work in her latest sex tape.

Get real Las Vegas Sun - I am sure that Clint Dolezel has asked to be considered for the UNLV Head Football Coach job as well. Does not mean you list him.

Same with Nick Holt - the guy gets paid close to $1 million at Washington just to Coach Defense. Not a real candidate and is not asking to be one.

Where are the following:
Larry Coker - Won at Miami and wanted the job 2 years ago when UNLV was first thinking of kicking Sanford out the door
Tommy Tuberville - Won at Auburn
Phil Fulmer - won at Tennessee
Gary Barnett - won at Colorado - sure has some baggage

All 4 of these guys would not be going anywhere after getting this job. Same could be said for Glenn Mason, John L Smith as well.

Turner Gill of Buffalo
Spike Dikes and Mark Stoops from Arizona
Butch Jones of CMU
Todd Graham of Tulsa
Al Golden of Temple
Major Applewhite - Rice OC

Enough of the Charlie Weis, Chris Ault crap. Listing their names makes this list look like a TMZ Reporter running after Ernest Borgnine. (oh yeah - they did chase the old man down for a photo). Lets throw some big names that you know have not a clue about where UNLV even plays their games on a list to be cute. How about doing the digging about what "powerful" UNLV donors would want. Or place a call to a Buffalo sports radio station to find out about Gill.
Jim Fassel - huh? Does anyone even understand what this UFL is about to claim that he is a "winning" Coach in Las Vegas?

Do you need someone from UNLV to "leak" the fact that Turner Gill should be contacted? Western Kentucky - the worst program in D1 contacted Turner Gill! So why would UNLV not reach out to him?

Love the fact that you have a list of candidates with odds attached. But, how about doing a little more work on what is happening in other College Coaching Openings to better understand the potential of the UNLV position with a candidate. Mentioning a Bobby Hauck is a good thing, but then you make your list a joke with a mention of Fassel?

With your list - Night at the Museum 2 for Best Picture! Johnny would make that film a 12-1 like Willingham. That is how far off base this list is.