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Thursday, November 23, 2006

RENO 911!


LAS VEGAS (AP) - University Chancellor Jim Rogers has asked regents to investigate the viability of the system's football and basketball programs.

In a five-page memo to the Board of Regents, Rogers requested an audit of both sports programs at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the University of Nevada, Reno, and pushed for the schools to play in the same conference.

UNLV was a member of the Western Athletic Conference, but left in 1999 to play in the Mountain West Conference. UNR joined the WAC in 2000.

Rogers said Tuesday he was frustrated with UNLV's losing football season. The team is 1-10 and has been ranked near the bottom of all Division I-A football teams.

"Why the hell would you have a football team when nobody goes to the games?" Rogers told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

UNR's football and basketball teams have fared better than UNLV's in recent years. The university's football team has an 8-3 record this season.

Although regents have not typically managed athletic programs, Rogers said he wanted the board to monitor the programs and determine ways to make the programs self-sufficient.

Since it last appeared in the NCAA Final Four in 1991, the UNLV men's basketball team has "become stuck far below mediocrity," Rogers said in the memo.

Regent Steve Sisolak said he welcomed the opportunity to provide better financial oversight.

He said regents receive general budgets for the athletic departments, but do not have detailed reports about how much money each sport collects and spends.

Gerry Bomotti, UNLV vice president for finance, said the school's entire athletic program earned $1.2 million last year, excluding revenue and expenses from the Thomas & Mack Center.

But the program last year received from taxpayers $4.8 million toward operating expenses and tuition and fee waivers.



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