UNLV basketball received the sort of news not usually expected from a team coming off the worst season in program history with the commitment of a five-star prospect.
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On Tuesday, UNLV announced the hiring of Desiree Reed-Francois, a former deputy athletic director at Virginia Tech, and put her in charge of Sam Boyd Stadium and the Thomas & Mack Center.
Desiree Reed-Francois was incredibly impressive, and it’s now obvious why and how she annihilated the competition to become UNLV’s next athletic director when the process reached final interviews.
UNLV was negotiating a contract to make Desiree Reed-Francois the school’s next athletic director and, unless things stall, an official announcement could come as early as Monday.
While it’s always a pleasing sound for basketball coaches when a fax machine signals the impending arrival of a signed letter of intent, welcoming new players to your program in 2017 now comes with a hint of apprehension.
Marvin Menzies hadn’t been hired at this time last year, a few days removed from the national championship, and inheriting a program with three scholarship players generated predictable results.
The opening chapter of how the Rebels went from a team under Lon Kruger that made four NCAA fields his last five years to one that just concluded the worst season in program history begins in 2011, when Nigel Williams-Goss was a sophomore at Findlay Prep.
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