Its been a little bit, sorry about that. Ive been in and out of town. This is a short week so hopefully on Sunday after my fifth helping of turkey for the week, ill sit down again and write something. There have been a lot of topics out there lately and I want to start with the coaches on the hot seat.
Charlie Wies is on the hot hot seat and it looks like he might be out the door. I don't know why, but I think he has done a great job there. I know they have a winning tradition, but whens the last time they had a coach longer then five years. Why don't we build on what we have first? UNLV gave Sanford five years and he didn't do anything with it. At least your going to bowl games and winning more than two games a season. It could be worse there at Norte Dame. You all forgetting how hard it is to get into school there. You standards were lower when you were winning.
Next is Rich Rodriguez. The guy is on the hot seat at Michigan for what? Taking over a program who didn't get there first or second choices and went with RICHROD on the aspect he would win right away. Give the guy a break its only year two and he hasn't lost to Appalachian State yet. He gets his guys in there I'm there will have better Michigan/Ohio State games. I think these guys both need a little more time.
On to the next one like my boy Jay Z says. Have you seen Brandon Jennings play yet? He's the kid who went overseas because he couldn't get into college. He makes great money and drives a ford flex. My mom drives a ford flex. He dropped 55 point a few weeks back and has been on fire all season. This may say something for him going overseas. He said he is not a high profile guy yet so he doesn't need any high profile merchandise yet and he wants to prove himself in this league. Smart for a kid who couldn't get into college. I think he is mature for his age and that might have been because he went overseas to play. He says its not for everyone and he didn't think he could do it if his mother wasn't there to help with support. Don't get any ideas high school players because you need to go to school.
Lots going on in football. I really didn't agree with my boy Ochocinco getting fined 20k for bribing the ref in good humor. What about Vince Young getting a high five from the ref? You gonna fine him? And whats with the whine bag coaches like Rex Ryan and Mangini? Get over it. Your teams suck and you cry about it. The Browns are terrible and should have lost to the better team in Detroit. Yeah the lions suck too but they are not that bad. Ryan needs to mind his own business because I'm sick of hearing about him every second on PTI.
Last is... watch my Rebs this weekend. Big games the next few days. Louisville and Arizona in the next 7 days. Big wins if we can get them.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!
SIMSZEE
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
BYE BYE MIKEY BOY!
Its finally happening. They man who has brought the program to its knees the past few seasons is gone. Mike Sanford was announced he will be FIRED dec 5th. If I were him, I would pack my shit and leave now. The team would fare better coaching themselves. This program needs a young flashy head coach, someone whose going to win the games we actually should win.
Sanford had the same locker room speech every game, nothing ever came out of it. He has had a chance to send this school to a bowl two years in a row and lost on the last games of the season to teams that should never have beaten UNLV. The Oregon State game set the tone for the whole season and its lucky we have the four wins we have. Hawaii is on a down year but will be back to the top soon. SDSU is on pace to make a bowl possibley. That's something. They were terrible last year never won a game until UNLV came along and they beat us. Colorado state lost 22 straight games until UNLV came into town and beat us. Lucky for New Mexico who broke our conference road losing streak. We were sold a lemon fans and that makes me very mad. Every other Urban Meyer disciple was successful, just look at Utah and BYU.
This was a joke of a hire. John Robinson's work was for nothing when we hired this guy. J Rob did what he needed to do then figured the program was where it needed to be to get going up. But that was all a huge fake out. Look what Charlie Spoonhour did. He took over a down program turned it around got some good players like Louis Amundson and put the program in the right direction. The Lon comes in an takes us to the next level. We didn't do this with football. We need a coach who is established again, someone who can put the wheels in motion then send it to a good coach who can take us to the next level. It very sad this just doesn't work for this program.
Ill give a you few names I would like to see here in Vegas. Tyrone Willingham, he has had some down years recently but he can coach and recruit and in this league. We just need to be competitive. Ill take 6-6 in a shitty bowl. I think any UNLV football fan would. I'm not looking to win National titles or get a BCS game that just ain't in the cards. But competitive, to where I can go watch UNLV play BYU or TCU and give them a game. I dont want to see a blow out. I have a better time following my high school team.
Now on to better things. Rebel basketball is back and from what I hear its too early to tell. Ill be in attendance at the Mac with Ms. OFMM checking out the boys this season. Ill have my predictions next week on how we look. Ill see UNR and Southern Illinois while I'm there so this should be a good test before the big boys like Louisville and Arizona come into play.
Last this week is all about the Pac Man. If you watched the fight you already know. This guy is something special. He started out as 112lbs flyweight. Now he is the welterweight champion at 140lbs. That is something. He made Cotto look like Peter Mcneally and he is one of the best fighter in the world. So that only leaves one question. What you got Money! If Floyd thinks hes the man its time to step up. Its time to schedule the fight that will make everyone involved millions. This could even put boxing on the map for a few months. I don't want to here the BS about money. Just throw a 50-50 split on everything and lets get to it. Call HBO get the 24/7 cameras out there and May 5th sounds like a good date to me. Floyd this fight will pay you everything and more that you can waste away the next five years. Manny you can buy the Philippines with this type of check. Let see it. I think its time to see the best fighters of their sport for the past 10 years go at it.
That whats on my mind.
SIMSZEE
Shoutout to BUCK B. You will be missed!
Sanford had the same locker room speech every game, nothing ever came out of it. He has had a chance to send this school to a bowl two years in a row and lost on the last games of the season to teams that should never have beaten UNLV. The Oregon State game set the tone for the whole season and its lucky we have the four wins we have. Hawaii is on a down year but will be back to the top soon. SDSU is on pace to make a bowl possibley. That's something. They were terrible last year never won a game until UNLV came along and they beat us. Colorado state lost 22 straight games until UNLV came into town and beat us. Lucky for New Mexico who broke our conference road losing streak. We were sold a lemon fans and that makes me very mad. Every other Urban Meyer disciple was successful, just look at Utah and BYU.
This was a joke of a hire. John Robinson's work was for nothing when we hired this guy. J Rob did what he needed to do then figured the program was where it needed to be to get going up. But that was all a huge fake out. Look what Charlie Spoonhour did. He took over a down program turned it around got some good players like Louis Amundson and put the program in the right direction. The Lon comes in an takes us to the next level. We didn't do this with football. We need a coach who is established again, someone who can put the wheels in motion then send it to a good coach who can take us to the next level. It very sad this just doesn't work for this program.
Ill give a you few names I would like to see here in Vegas. Tyrone Willingham, he has had some down years recently but he can coach and recruit and in this league. We just need to be competitive. Ill take 6-6 in a shitty bowl. I think any UNLV football fan would. I'm not looking to win National titles or get a BCS game that just ain't in the cards. But competitive, to where I can go watch UNLV play BYU or TCU and give them a game. I dont want to see a blow out. I have a better time following my high school team.
Now on to better things. Rebel basketball is back and from what I hear its too early to tell. Ill be in attendance at the Mac with Ms. OFMM checking out the boys this season. Ill have my predictions next week on how we look. Ill see UNR and Southern Illinois while I'm there so this should be a good test before the big boys like Louisville and Arizona come into play.
Last this week is all about the Pac Man. If you watched the fight you already know. This guy is something special. He started out as 112lbs flyweight. Now he is the welterweight champion at 140lbs. That is something. He made Cotto look like Peter Mcneally and he is one of the best fighter in the world. So that only leaves one question. What you got Money! If Floyd thinks hes the man its time to step up. Its time to schedule the fight that will make everyone involved millions. This could even put boxing on the map for a few months. I don't want to here the BS about money. Just throw a 50-50 split on everything and lets get to it. Call HBO get the 24/7 cameras out there and May 5th sounds like a good date to me. Floyd this fight will pay you everything and more that you can waste away the next five years. Manny you can buy the Philippines with this type of check. Let see it. I think its time to see the best fighters of their sport for the past 10 years go at it.
That whats on my mind.
SIMSZEE
Shoutout to BUCK B. You will be missed!
Thursday, November 5, 2009
20th anniversy of 1990 CHAMPS!
I'm watching direct TV the other night and caught this show on Larry Johnson on the MSG channel. It was about his career as a Knick and everyone he played with said he was the best teammate ever. No one knows how great he was unless they were around him all the time. Larry was a great player, probably the greatest REBEL of all time. Which get me to thinking with the 20th anniversary on the 10th of this month. Who is your top 10 rebels of the last 20 years. I say the last 20 because I wasn't around for Reggie Thues and Danny Tark. Great players definitely on the all time list but not in my era. Here are my top 10 players and why.
10. Kaz Kambala. He was the big man in the middle that reminded me a lot of Larry Johnson. He was so dominate and led the Rebs to an amazing run through the WAC tourney and on to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1991. Kaz never made it as a pro in the states but was considered the Turkish Shaq over seas. He is now pursuing a boxing career.
9. Greg Anthony. He was the definition of point guard. He would pass first shoot second. He ran the team and if it wasn't for fouling out in 1991 semifinal there might be two banners hanging in the T&M. Greg was a Vegas kid who led his home town team to a National Championship. Greg had a great NBA career and was one of three players taken in the lottery. You can catch him now on CBS sports college basketball show.
8. Curtis Terry. Yeah I know what your thinking this guy sucks. I believe I invented the nickname Curtis "i suck" Terry. But he has hit some huge shots in his career. Terry was a walk on who made the team and started at the end of his career. Yeah he is the younger brother of Jason Terry but he doesn't play like him. Curtis is a reason we went to sweet sixteen and his shot against SDSU to send it to overtime when he was a freshmen was huge. Maybe bigger then Vince Bookers 3-pointer against BYU at the buzzer. Might be a toss up!\
7. Danny Brotherson. I loved the way he would play. Brotherson was an athlete. He was all American in 3 sports in high school and his teams won titles in all of them. Brotherson played hard every time he stepped on the court. He wasn't the best shooter or re bounder but what white guy you know can dunk on a center? Danny was hardcore. He made a few mistakes but he was always fun to watch play. Not to mention his wife was nice to look at in the stands. Sorry Danny!
6. Kevin Kruger. The reason he is so far down the list is because he only played one season. Can you imagine if we had him for his whole career? It might have been something really special. Kruger ran the floor and always found the open man. He would play hurt. He would think of the team. He wasn't selfish and it was about the team not him. What a player he was. Kevin was probably the smartest point guard of the last 20 years. He knows the game so well. He was the main reason we finally got back to making runs in the tournament.
5. Louis Amundson. One of my favorites. Lou was a great player. He was just so raw when he came in as a skinny freshmen. He learned the game very well and did everything he could to transfer that into games. He was a fan favorite and terrible free throw shooter. Lou was a great inside presence and played hard all the time. Its too bad he got caught in that transition of coaches.
4. Marcus Banks. The guy would not let us lose. Marcus was allowed to do what ever he wanted but he played great when he had to. He would light you up for 30. He would drain a last second floater at the buzzer (RENO) and would play til the death like against New Mexico in the MWC tourney. He is high up on the scoring list for only paying two seasons. He was a lottery pick but doesn't do much in the L. Its sad becuase he might be the best lock down defender I've seen.
3.Anderson Hunt. One of five all- Americans who could shoot the rock from the out side and slam a fast break home. Hunt was the youngster of the group. Final Four MVP and well deserved when he dropped 29 on Duke in the final. Hunt would have been great in the NBA but he was in the era of your not suppose to leave early and five years later it was the thing to do.
2. Stacey Augmon. Plastic man. Everyone loved the quite forward that threw the ball off the backboard in a NCAA tournament game and slammed it home. Who does that. Augmon was so smooth. He was silky smooth. He would walk on air and hit the jumper. He played the longest out of anyone from UNLV in the NBA. What a player, I wish he would come back to coach one day.
1. LJ. enough said.
I have a few players I loved to watch play. So Honorable mention goes to Lou Kelley. He was such a pure shooter. If it wasn't for the injuries he would have had an amazing career. Wink Adams was good. He was a little selfish and bulked up too much his senior year, but a fan favorite. Jeramie Lewis was the poor mans Stacey Augmon. He would play with anyone. He never complained or cried about minutes, just did what he needed to do.
10. Kaz Kambala. He was the big man in the middle that reminded me a lot of Larry Johnson. He was so dominate and led the Rebs to an amazing run through the WAC tourney and on to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1991. Kaz never made it as a pro in the states but was considered the Turkish Shaq over seas. He is now pursuing a boxing career.
9. Greg Anthony. He was the definition of point guard. He would pass first shoot second. He ran the team and if it wasn't for fouling out in 1991 semifinal there might be two banners hanging in the T&M. Greg was a Vegas kid who led his home town team to a National Championship. Greg had a great NBA career and was one of three players taken in the lottery. You can catch him now on CBS sports college basketball show.
8. Curtis Terry. Yeah I know what your thinking this guy sucks. I believe I invented the nickname Curtis "i suck" Terry. But he has hit some huge shots in his career. Terry was a walk on who made the team and started at the end of his career. Yeah he is the younger brother of Jason Terry but he doesn't play like him. Curtis is a reason we went to sweet sixteen and his shot against SDSU to send it to overtime when he was a freshmen was huge. Maybe bigger then Vince Bookers 3-pointer against BYU at the buzzer. Might be a toss up!\
7. Danny Brotherson. I loved the way he would play. Brotherson was an athlete. He was all American in 3 sports in high school and his teams won titles in all of them. Brotherson played hard every time he stepped on the court. He wasn't the best shooter or re bounder but what white guy you know can dunk on a center? Danny was hardcore. He made a few mistakes but he was always fun to watch play. Not to mention his wife was nice to look at in the stands. Sorry Danny!
6. Kevin Kruger. The reason he is so far down the list is because he only played one season. Can you imagine if we had him for his whole career? It might have been something really special. Kruger ran the floor and always found the open man. He would play hurt. He would think of the team. He wasn't selfish and it was about the team not him. What a player he was. Kevin was probably the smartest point guard of the last 20 years. He knows the game so well. He was the main reason we finally got back to making runs in the tournament.
5. Louis Amundson. One of my favorites. Lou was a great player. He was just so raw when he came in as a skinny freshmen. He learned the game very well and did everything he could to transfer that into games. He was a fan favorite and terrible free throw shooter. Lou was a great inside presence and played hard all the time. Its too bad he got caught in that transition of coaches.
4. Marcus Banks. The guy would not let us lose. Marcus was allowed to do what ever he wanted but he played great when he had to. He would light you up for 30. He would drain a last second floater at the buzzer (RENO) and would play til the death like against New Mexico in the MWC tourney. He is high up on the scoring list for only paying two seasons. He was a lottery pick but doesn't do much in the L. Its sad becuase he might be the best lock down defender I've seen.
3.Anderson Hunt. One of five all- Americans who could shoot the rock from the out side and slam a fast break home. Hunt was the youngster of the group. Final Four MVP and well deserved when he dropped 29 on Duke in the final. Hunt would have been great in the NBA but he was in the era of your not suppose to leave early and five years later it was the thing to do.
2. Stacey Augmon. Plastic man. Everyone loved the quite forward that threw the ball off the backboard in a NCAA tournament game and slammed it home. Who does that. Augmon was so smooth. He was silky smooth. He would walk on air and hit the jumper. He played the longest out of anyone from UNLV in the NBA. What a player, I wish he would come back to coach one day.
1. LJ. enough said.
I have a few players I loved to watch play. So Honorable mention goes to Lou Kelley. He was such a pure shooter. If it wasn't for the injuries he would have had an amazing career. Wink Adams was good. He was a little selfish and bulked up too much his senior year, but a fan favorite. Jeramie Lewis was the poor mans Stacey Augmon. He would play with anyone. He never complained or cried about minutes, just did what he needed to do.
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