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How long before NSU is better than UNLV in basketball, too?
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HEY! That isn't tr ... (looks in the mirror) ... Well, there aren't basements in Las Vegas.
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Lawlor loves expansion of executive powers!
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It’s a nice place. Has a lot in common with Reno, actually. Reno is bigger. But both are mountain towns with tons of outdoors stuff to do.
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We have one in Bend now, too.
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NVGiant changed their profile photo
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Yes
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Does that make Vandy, well ... Vandy?
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We’d still have UNLV though. … Jokes aside, watching Baylor and KU thump the service academies in basketball would be, well, not great.
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I don't see anything wrong with athletes getting a piece of the pie. They were treated as unpaid cash cows, especially at the big schools, and now they get to cash in. America baby!
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Great post. I could be wrong, too. There isn't any way to tell what the combined forces of the NCAA ceding its position, NIL, major realignment, etc. will all bring. It's unprecedented. But it seems to me that we are no longer pretending that college athletics — and specifically football — are anything other than what they are.
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Yes. This. Honestly, when you take the emotion of being left behind out of it, it may actually be a good thing.
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I didn't say it was going to fold. I'm saying that the writing is on the wall, and our days in the top division are likely numbered.
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It's not a rain cloud. Just watching this as it plays out and making an honest assessment.
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The remnants of the G5 will almost certainly figure it out. But I am pretty sure what they'll figure out is that they are going to have to operate as a separate division. I just don't think that there will be any interest after consolidation, when the resource gap between whatever becomes of the major conferences and the rest of us becomes even wider, in keeping the smaller FBS schools in the fold. The NCAA is already ceding its position as a centralized governing body, which leaves a conference like the SEC to pull the strings. Not sure how this ends, but pretty sure it doesn't end well for schools like Nevada. (Good column in The Athletic today that seems to support my theory.) I don't claim to know the future, so I hope I am wrong.
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Pure speculation on my part. But it's seemed inevitable to me for a long time that the power schools will one day break away. The SEC is going to wield so much power that they might as well be the de facto NCAA, at least in college football. And they don't strike me as particularly interested in keeping the little guys viable. Some of our schools will get the call up with realignment. We aren't going to be one of them.