Through many years and many UNLV athletic directors, the athletic department had the luxury of knowing it could be bailed out by the university at the end of the fiscal year. Soon, that no longer will be the case.
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Asking “what if” can be tantalizing and maddening. Las Vegas sports fans know the impact of that question.
The Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association’s board of control voted Thursday to create a new 5A classification, which will go into effect when realignment occurs for the 2018-2019 school year.
UNLV’s athletic department is running about a $4.9 million deficit because of shortfalls in the school’s top two revenue-producing sports — men’s basketball and football.
Local athletes expected to sign a national letter of intent during the signing period, which runs Wednesday through April 1.
UNLV hired Collegiate Sports Associates to conduct its search for an athletic director. Also, Nancy Rapoport, special counsel to UNLV president Len Jessup, will serve as chairwoman of the search committee.
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.
I met a couple of more guys one could look up to Monday morning at Lied Library on the UNLV campus. One stood 3 feet, 7 inches. His name is Brandon Hamilton.