Part I of a two-part series. The next UNLV athletic director will take over a department in which there are plenty of positives, but one with challenges as well.
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UNLV athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy will step down at the end of the academic year. She then will move to the UNLV Foundation.
Tina Kunzer-Murphy said Monday she has had ongoing conversations with UNLV president Len Jessup regarding her future as athletic director, but that nothing has been decided.
The state’s higher education board has given Nevada’s college presidents more authority over hiring of high-profile coaches.
UNLV’s chances of making the Big 12 Conference was never good, and now the school has no shot. The Big 12 has informed UNLV that it would not be among those schools considered for expansion in the 10-team conference.
UNLV has submitted a letter of interest to the Big 12 about being considered as an expansion candidate for the Power 5 conference, UNLV athletic director Tina Kunzer-Murphy said Friday.
UNLV is one of five major colleges with minority head coaches in men’s basketball and football. The Rebels are the only ones to include a female athletic director.
With no guaranteed money game on UNLV’s 2016 football schedule and men’s basketball ticket sales down 5 percent from last year at this time, the school is projected to have a budget deficit of $1.5 million to $3 million in 2016-17.
Rick Trachok, chairman of the University of Nevada Board of Regents, will propose that regents no longer vote on coaches’ contracts. The onus will be on the university president to put together a fiscally responsible deal.
Regents should have zero influence when it comes to those a university hires to run athletic programs, and that includes voting to approve the contracts offered coaches.