UNLV fans discussing travel plans for HOD

Harry · December 23, 2013

http://unlv.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=1093&tid=195844671&mid=195844671&sid=915&style=2

Dr. Seuss · December 23, 2013

"Expenses will be approximately $800,000. Between selling tickets the Rebels have a $400,000 commitment and securing sponsors, UNLV hopes to come close to breaking even but at this point faces closer to a $200,000 deficit."

Were calling all of our donors and are asking a lot of people to make this a quality experience, Kunzer-Murphy said. So were hoping to get the number down. I think that because its a unique situation for UNLV to be in a bowl game thats Jan. 1, and its not part of the normal Mountain West conference tie-ins, it puts a little more burden on us because of the time and the extra days, which is really a lot of our expense.

She said she has been in contact with Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson about possibly receiving additional dollars.

"Players will fly into Dallas separately on commercial flights because most will return to their various homes for Christmas. The school will arrange schedules so the arrivals all are within a couple of hours of each other on Dec. 28."

http://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/expenses-bowl-wipe-out-windfall

There (200k) logic doesn't make any sense... HoD bowl is on 1/1/14, in which is not a MWC bowl tie in, but the Armed Forces bowl is on 12/30 and is a MWC tie in. Why would a bowl game 2 days after cost more for travel expenses??

If they played in the Armed Forces Bowl, players would still have to travel on there own if they leave the state for the holidays, unless the school wouldn't allow them. When the game is 2 days later, they could request the players to be back by 12/26 and then they would fly out 28th from Vegas.

And then, you're telling me the team won't practice for 5 days in a row???

Edited December 23, 2013 by Dr. Seuss

UNT90 · December 23, 2013

I think they should just take an old yellow school bus and load the players up and drive to Texas.

That's what you do when you are trying to save money.

I'm really tired of their whining.

Mean Green Eagle · December 24, 2013

I think the exposure they'll receive for a Jan 1 game will be worth in excess of that $200K.

Hope they travel better than it sounds like they're going to.

PlummMeanGreen · December 24, 2013

My First Ragin' Rant of The Day....(I know, some of you who actually read this lagniape just thought you'd escaped me posting at least one)!

Sounds like it will be such a hardship for UNLV to come to one of the Top 3 recruiting hot spots in the entire USA for a New Years Day bowl game. Do they know how many bowl games are played in states whose schools in those bowl hosting states have to go to other states to get a decent NCAA FBS level football player or 2?

:bling: Anyone remember when the Colorado State HFC prior to the one they have now all but cried baby crocodile tears when the Lone Star States only MWC member, ie, TCU left that league since he recruited Texas quite heavily and also remember this small detail on all that > > > > CSU only had about 14 Texans on that Rams team?

And once again.....................which clueless Einstein with an apparent un-Midas touch over in Big D pulled the trigger to have this school come to Texas in the first place? Did they do absolutely do their best to take much of the luster off this years game because it was North Texas? If you've been around the DFW area for about half a century like many of us you'd never really want to take that possibility off the table.

It's so gol' darrned obvious that UNLV would have felt more comfortable playing in one of their precious little MWC bowl games. Shame it wasn't Boise's Mr. Potato Head Bowl game before about 2,000 B.I.S. was it now?

Like all of you, I'm going to the HOD Bowl to support no other team but the one wearing green, but someone over in Big D could have been a bit more scheduling savvy and entrepenurial-like as to have set up a better opponent than the one we got. Is this about SMU and TCU not going bowling at all so for damn sure make certain North Texas doesn't get a marquee name but rather what is mostly a basketball school instead?

Remember last time we got a basketball school for a bowl opponent whose mascots were the Bearcats and how so few they brought to a true destination city down in Louisiana? Were not the Cincy' fans saying..."We had a big home basketball game on campus same night as the NO's Bowl so that why we have so few? B.S. (And Cincy' is now up for ACC membership to boot now)? If so, they didn't earn points toward possible admittance for such a conference affiliation the night the North Texas Mean Green kicked their Bearcat butt way down yonder in New Orleans.

GMG!

Edited December 24, 2013 by PlummMeanGreen