..... This team will be far improved.
It's hard not to improve when you are so terrible to begin with. If you stay off probation you might have a. 500 ball club in a year or two.
..... This team will be far improved.
NCAA was investigating UNLV very early on in the 70's and that was what Tark originally got in trouble for but he got off and UNLV didn't end up getting punished because he successfully won a due process argument in court.
Tark was under suspicion pretty much his entire career. The Lloyd Daniels thing was just proof that there was stuff going on behind the scenes. and then when the photo came out of the guys hanging out with the same 'booster' that paid Daniels, Tark was forced to leave. So you are telling me this booster only played one player to go to UNLV? Even John Wooden thought Tark was dirty and that's saying something.
I appreciate the comment. As I mentioned, I am not trolling you guys, just wanted to provide a different perspective about UNLV. Winning or losing recruiting battles doesn't have to be about hookers, blow and cash.
You can turn this into a referendum on the Tark days however my original post stands. UNLV has a lot to offer top recruits. Cry and moan about hookers, blow and cash all you want, it doesn't make it true.
Menzies and LaFleur are great salesmen with lots of connections I will give them that.
It doesn't have to be, but there's also no way to actually know 100% it's not the case either.
And with the shady history of UNLV, it's not unheard of to be skeptical.
Yes, let's talk about Wooden! Tarkanian drew the wrath of the NCAA while he was at Long Beach by writing a letter in the newspaper suggesting that the NCAA, instead of picking on the little guys for piddly squat, look up the road at John Wooden and UCLA and the major violations they were committing. Of course Wooden hated Tarkanian, he was the only one with enough balls to publicly out him on the crap he was pulling. You didn't mess with Wooden, for God's sake. But you're right, that IS where the NCAA's hate for Tark began, and they tried for years to destroy him, even set up shop on the UNLV campus. And in the end, they couldn't find squat, Tark won, and gained due process for all schools, including yours, in the process. He never would have taken them to court if they had anything on him. He said later he probably wouldn't have written that letter in Long Beach if he knew what grief it was going to cause him.
Was he perfect? Oh hell no, but not one coach was. One of Tark's favorite jokes was that he loved it when kids came from UCLA, they already had cars. But hey, he did run an extra off season practice, lol. And Stacey Augmon was pulled off a plane on the way to the NCAA tournament because a phone call had been made at a hotel and hadn't yet been paid for. THIS kind of stuff is what the NCAA harrassed Tarkanian with.
And btw, it was UNLV's own president who eventually took Tarkanian down, not the NCAA. He absolutely hated Tark's popularity in Vegas, and decided he was going to make UNLV the 'Harvard of the West'. LOL! No lie, he actually said that! Tarkanian finally had enough of the fight, resigned, and then that pres then went on to make a shady deal with Rollie Massimino.
You can't convince me that these top prospects aren't getting some kind of special benefits at UNLV. And I'm talking about all of the top prospects that have gone there. Not just the ones ISU has been in on.
They haven't been any good for quite some time.
Very, very fishy.
The kids UNLV have "put into the league," would be in the league regardless of where they went to school.So you can't figure out that the NBA hanging out there has anything to do with it? Or that UNLV has put kids in the league lately?
Why do you have to start with the assumption there are shenanigans? Is it the whole conspiracy thing where the bigger the story, the easier it is to believe?
Ive heard enough stories from people in our athletic department that I will never believe anything about UNLV's recruiting is clean.
I'll give the UNLV fans a real answer as to why some are annoyed by this.
1. This is the 2nd time ISU has gotten in on a player early and developed a good relationship, only to have UNLV swoop in at the last minute and get him. I know that's the world of recruiting, and although under different circumstances I'm sure Marquette feels that way about us with the success we've had with their former players, but it's still annoying.
2. There have been a bunch of UNLV fans acting like massive tools on social media. The typical 'Ames vs Vegas', Ames sucks, Iowa sucks; it's just lazy and ignorant, much like the hookers and blow statements.
3. The success between the two programs over the past 6 years isn't even close. While I get there is a new coaching staff, UNLV still has the reputation around the college basketball world of doing MUCH LESS with more.
4. With how the whole Vaughn thing going down the way it did with his handler getting a job on the UNLV staff, it rubs a lot of us the wrong way. That on top of the past with Tark and Findlay Prep being run by a UNLV booster, you can see why there is skepticism that everything going on there is legitimate.
In the end, I think we'll be fine. It would have been really nice to get Juiston, but I think this will be good for a guy like Cameron Lard in the long run. Thanks for coming on here and being civil for the most part; not sure I could do the same being attacked on an opponents message board.
If UNLV is dirty and that's why JS went there, he obviously doesn't fit our program. This is not a loss when you lose a player to a dirty program because the player himself has to be dirty to play that game. We're better off having a dirty player go to a dirty program than having a dirty player in our program.
That's the argument being put forth, right?