from Pat Forde this morning:

[Grayback]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

Non-bandwagon fans.

Uh boy, you're apparently just plumb dumb

[Victory_For_UNI]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

Hahaha! We've got posters on our board like this, too!

Both years that you've been cheering for UNLV?

[Grayback]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

no doubt... reblebacker, you are alright with me.

Oh boy, what a prize. TELL HIM WHAT HE'S WON, BOB!!

[Grayback]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

Both years that you've been cheering for UNLV?

Oh, nice angle. Yeah, for all two years I've been a fan. Lamebrain. Just go to sleep, son. Grown folks are talking here.

[Victory_For_UNI]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

Oh, nice angle. Yeah, for all two years I've been a fan. Lamebrain. Just go to sleep, son. Grown folks are talking here.

Says the guy who used a "your mom" comeback earlier........

[casbern]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

Oh boy, what a prize. TELL HIM WHAT HE'S WON, BOB!!

See, they've got tact, something of which you don't have as you can't even control yourself to stay on your board. Granted, we might have had someone crash yours, but you'd figure with you being such a stout school with a stout conference and deep and glorious history, would be use to a board crasher or two, but apparently your not, and it shows. I tried to entertain the thought that you'd participate in a conversation on this board, initially by jabbing at one another, but you've just come to harass. Thursday will speak for itself, when the Panthers of Northern Iowa will beat UNLV.

UNI-59
UNLV-53

[Big_Al]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

As far as bowl games in your home stadiums it has worked out for the Rose Bowl(UCLA), Orange Bowl(Miami), and Fiesta Bowl(Arizona St.). If it's good enough for 3 of the BCS bowls to have their home teams play there I guess that's a good enough precedent.

RB, just to be clear, I'm an avowed MWC fan because my wife went to grad school at Utah. I know the Rebels -- they are a good team and I'm excited to see the game this Thursday. I follow football, though, so I don't know squat about how UNLV & UNI match up.

Personally, I think the MWC > MVC and vice versa talk is beyond silly. Last I checked, the entire conference isn't playing the game, just UNLV and UNI. To use a football metaphor, it's like the Las Vegas Bowl, where the MWC #1 plays the Pac-10 #4. I like UNI's odds in that scenario.

I will say this, though -- people who know basketball (not me) say the Midwest bracket is brutal this year. I don't know care what seed you have, the team that makes it through will be well prepared to win it all.

[Victory_For_UNI]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

My prediction?

UNLV uses their massive income from their booming tourism industry as well as their MWC clout coupled with their national title from 30 years ago and pays off the rest of the rest of the field/intimidates them into submission, thereby rendering them default National Champions.

[jman2004]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

UNLV curbstomped SIU.

"Curbstomped"??? You won 78-69 . . . your smothering in-your-face pressure defense gave up 69 points to the 9th best team in our conference. Way to go!

[UNIAlum95]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

Let me tell you something: Your boy Clenz started the ENTIRE thing over on Rebel-Net. He took on UNLVFansincebirth22, and drug him over here. UFSB22 was defending himself, and I just took over for him. We don't fire unless fired upon. So, thank your village idiot for the flame war.

Personally, I think it's tons of fun. But don't think for a second I came over here trolling.

Mom!!! He started it!

BTW - What you are doing is the definition of trolling.

[FOTY]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

It's days like this when I miss Cap'n Cat during his season of rest...

He would have so much fun with the UNLV board and brokeback. Not that the rest of us aren't.

[jman2004]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

I think it is safe to say that the success we have had in football and this year in basketball puts us safely in the top tier of non-BCS conferences. Its tough to find another non-BCS conference that has had success in both like we have.

Back to this MWC push for inclusion to the 6 power conferences in football . . .

BCS Bowl Game records since 1998:

WAC: 2-1 (Boise State 2 wins, Hawaii 1 loss)
MWC: 2-1 (Utah 2 wins, TCU 1 loss)

MWC record vs. WAC in BCS bowl games . . . 0-1.

You want another non-BCS conference that has had success like you have, the WAC. In fact, on paper, because of head-to-head, they've had slightly MORE success than you in football.

Now why is it that they're not whining about becoming a BCS conference?

And what the hell does any of this have to do with UNLV's basketball team?

[Rebelbacker]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

Back to this MWC push for inclusion to the 6 power conferences in football . . .

BCS Bowl Game records since 1998:

WAC: 2-1 (Boise State 2 wins, Hawaii 1 loss)
MWC: 2-1 (Utah 2 wins, TCU 1 loss)

MWC record vs. WAC in BCS bowl games . . . 0-1.

You want another non-BCS conference that has had success like you have, the WAC. In fact, on paper, because of head-to-head, they've had slightly MORE success than you in football.

Now why is it that they're not whining about becoming a BCS conference?

And what the hell does any of this have to do with UNLV's basketball team?

I see you haven't looked at the head to head records of the MWC vs all other non-BCS leagues. Or the MWC record vs BCS conferences compared to all other non-BCS conferences. You cherry picked one stat to make your point and it isn't a very good point. I don't know why we would need to continue this discussion about football. You guys aren't FBS so it doesn't matter to you.

It has nothing to do with UNLV basketball. I was just defending the conference.

[Dpruett2333]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

It's all gravy, little brother. Maybe someday, you can have your own Final Four banner hanging in your rafters. Wait, no you won't. No top recruit in their right mind is going to come and play for you.

Hahaha... Well.... Considering that I'm a Wichita State fan, we do have that banner hanging in the rafters.

[ProwlingPanther]

Re: from Pat Forde this morning:

Actually, that would be UCLA and Kentucky, thank you.

If we are not relevant, what does that make you?

Well, we don't claim to be a major program. Although ESPN must have found us to be more relevant.