Boise State Gives UNLV Bulletin Board Material
Oh boy, this got interesting
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Let the trash talk begin
The Mountain West title game features a familiar team in Boise State facing off against UNLV at Las Vegas.
The game has a lot of storylines with Spencer Danielson who is interim coach for Boise State who could be the permanent coach. UNLV is in its first-ever Mountain West title game and could earn that elusive football conference title since joining this league.
The game is expected to be a close one as the line has hovered around a two- or three-point line in favor of a road Boise State.
The latest intrigue comes from the Boise State football game notes to provide some bulletin board material for UNLV with a jab towards the Rebels’ football history that includes forfeiture of games back from their 1984 season and more jabs.
Pretty low blow from Boise State and its game notes regarding UNLV for this weekend's title game.
Be better. pic.twitter.com/Jl0kHF1B1C
— Mountain West Wire (@MWCwire) December 1, 2023
This was pointed out that Boise State has been doing these things in-game notes, but the first we noticed (we apologize to the Broncos staff who writes these things).
Here are a few highlights.
- Despite all the glitz and glamour in Sin City, all that glitters is not necessarily gold for the Rebels. UNLV enters this week looking to win its second conference championship ever and first since 1994.
- If you think we’re forgetting something, we are certainly not. Yes, UNLV won the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference in 1984 but later had to forfeit the title due to using ineligible players. No, that team was not coached by Jerry Tarkanian.
- While he’s still barely into his (likely) long tenure at UNLV, Odom is already achieving one notable feat. With a 9-3 record, he is the first UNLV head coach to have a winning percentage in his tenure since Tony Knap posted a .696 mark (47-20-2) from 1976-81. We don’t blame UNLV for hiring a Boise State coach to
find someone who knows how to win. - UNLV was originally founded in 1959 as a southern regional extension division of the University of Nevada. When it initially began operations, it used a classroom at Las Vegas High School. The moral of this story is no one should look disapprovingly upon Boise State’s history as a junior college.
- The university’s endowment is $367.6 million. While that may be about double Boise State’s endowment, we’re pretty sure some former university president got lucky and rolled a seven to double that number.
- UNLV’s basketball team is known as the Runnin’ Rebels while all other programs are just known as the
Rebels. Knowing that important fact, we now expect UNLV to live up to its nickname and pass on every
down on Saturday.
These comments fall into three categories: Bulletin board material for UNLV fans, genius comedy for Boise State fans, and the rest find this amusing and maybe even a little mean.
For UNLV players and fans, this has to add a little bit of extra motivation. As for the rest of us, we should be checking out the Broncos game notes going forward.
