User profile: kirkland

Idaho has a Coach who is taking them to a bowl game who is a former D Coordinator. Cutting your teeth - they beat CSU and SDSU already?

Koetter would be great. The guy gets it and was great at Boise. He would be a huge improvement.

Butch Jones at Central Michigan would be great - 16-11 in 3 seasons with 3 straight bowl appearances.

Sanford needs to go and we have to get a proven Head Coach to take over the reigns.

When service academies can out recruit you and have better success what is missing?

Coaching

That is what we will see this weekend against Air Force. Guys that UNLV did not want as a 17 point favorite - says it all about UNLV.

In the meantime - Bill MOOS has got to be hired as AD!

Nothing more than a bunch of smoke here to make it look like something special. People who book through Expedia dont get these deals I guess?

I dont know how you get this message out to the masses to make this super spectacular. Hotels should be providing this service anyway, it is purely selling all of your assets at the point of reservations.

They may need to get back into the charter business with so many flights being lost by McCarron at the moment. Where are the hotels in jumping up and down about the loss of flights into the market. Create all of these guest service programs. It wont matter much when people cant get here like they used to.

With the Venetian losing business to Mandalay, he had no choice but to try to take advantage of Macau being his potential savior.

Vegas bleeds and Macau is the bandage.

As far as the comments about 6-6 teams going to bowl games, face the facts that PAC 10 and other conferences who go 6-6 are not turning down a bowl invitation.

Right now, the focus on San Diego State vs. Wyoming has as much to do with a bowl bid than anything UNLV does. Wyoming finishing at 6-6 is a more attractive team than UNLV and has already beaten them head to head. SDSU, the team that makes a Coaching change and is smart enough to hire Rocky Long as D Coordinator, comes from only winning 2 games last year and now is competing for a bowl bid.

That is progress. UNLV getting in really is not progress, it was expected and should not have been a sweating it out situation.

Note SDSU understands that they need to improve their defense and they hire someone who always had his New Mexico teams in games due to his defense. Why Sanford did not understand that a hire like this would make sense is beyond comprehension.

Air Force is 17 point favorites. Do they get better recruits than UNLV does? Or is it that they are always better Coached than most teams?

The bubble will burst this weekend for Sanford and we can move on with making this Coaching change.

Nevada is going to a bowl which only makes it more important to make this move right now.

The numbers that Ryan has put up should be commended. We all hope for him to have a great bowl season hopefully getting an invite to the Senior Bowl. That is a more important bowl game for him than going to any with UNLV as far as his career goes.

When you have the PAC 10 playing only 3 non conference games and a team goes 6-6 going to a bowl game should not be frowned upon. When you look at Rutgers - getting 5 non conference games against Army, Howard, Florida International, Texas Southern, Maryland - lay the points against them in any bowl matchup as they dont deserve to be in a game. That is a joke.

Las Vegas Bowl - Cal vs BYU anyone? Jahvid Best playing his final game in Vegas. That is a game worth saving money to go see instead of UNLV SDSU with the Rebs out of it.

To hear that Bill Moos would be interested in coming to UNLV is amazing. I remember when we gave John Robinson the keys to everything at UNLV. Moos would be the first big time AD UNLV has had since Rothermell.

Dont blow this UNLV, go get someone who understands how to build a program, raise money and can make the decisions that are so necessary to move UNLV closer to the Utah's and BYU's in their own conference.