LSU, Will Wade/UNLV Jerry Tarkanian similarities run deep

If you want to know a story about another program and coach that came out of nowhere and threatened to disrupt the order of things look no further than UNLV Runnin Rebs in 1977.

Up and coming coach? Check

Begins a great turnaround? Check

Gaining popularity among the basketball community as a viable place for a top player to play? Check

Potential to disrupt the money making machine? Check

The rest of the story is to be decided, but the beginnings are already set.

Time is the major difference here as the media and background players that know the established order have moved quicker than when UNLV began their move. In about 5 years after Tark the Shark took over at UNLV he had them in the Final Four and lost by 1 to Dean Smiths Tar Heels.

History repeats itself. Always will and always has.


I hope our ending is a better one than what happened to them.

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Encourage you to watch the documentary and there are a few times where someone hits on what we all have known: to be big time you have to do some things that skirt the rules; sometimes things happen unknowingly and sometimes knowingly. UNLV was the lamb to slaughter.