Rebels on the Run: The Rise and Fall of UNLV Basketball

Broadcast in 2005. Narrated by Ray Liotta.

[@MyKeeP81]

The NCAA is FAR shadier than Tark ever was

[@davidkuhlman8004]

UNLV was crashing the big schools party. The big schools didnt want the problem kids & Tark getting them ethier.

[@duaneoldfield]

That's the truth

[@baddnewz6]

Facts

[@dannyyork1142]

You ain't lying bout that. Look at there stanced on transgenders. Boys can win ncaa championships, cause they say today I'm a girl. Ncaa is corrupt and always have been.

[@dannyyork1142]

TARK THE SHARK!!!!! He is one best coach's ever, mighty bent rules a Lil, like prancing during off season, but like Denny Crum said, if u played the Shark while at university, you better be ready to play, and also, I think all kids played for him, would go down for him, play there guts out for him, and in 🏀 game that's a deadly combination!!!!!!LONG LIVE THE SHARK!!!!!!

[@GhostDrummer]

My buddies and I loved the 90/91 UNLV team…I was 16 and my parents just divorced. I stayed with my dad and we moved to a completely new town. The few friends I made got me into playing ball quite a bit. In a really bad time in my life, watching UNLV play was a highlight. Knowing now how much the ncaa and the university president hated Coach Tarkanian and tried so hard to destroy his legacy, I’m even more impressed at how he held his composure.

[@randalllundgren6035]

I miss the Runnin rebels of UNLV. That was so much fun between the administration and the NCAA they ripped him tarkanian apart they treat him like crap so we end up going to Fresno and coaching a Fresno we should have kept him here there's no way he wasn't just b*******

[@robertdog]

Never knew this existed. Thank you for the upload, Mike!

[@MVJTV]

My pleasure!

[@fdrisgreat]

I loved that 1990 UNLV Running Rebels team. They ran the ball down everyone's throat and that amoeba defense was awesome.

[@DNSKansas]

And Shaq and Chris Jackson (Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf) kicked their asses.

[@nateatchison161]

@@DNSKansasAnd that LSU team didn't win shit. Talk about under achievers...

[@vegastjg]

@@DNSKansas lol they barely won and that was because Augmon was suspended

[@upabittoolate]

@@DNSKansas remind me of how many chips Chris and Shaq have.

[@russellwarner363]

@@DNSKansas You do know the original Dream Team with Jordan, Bird, Johnson lost to the college players before blowing everyone out. So what's your point? Shaq, Jackson, Roberts didn't win anything with all that talent.

[@AntiMTVMovement]

One aspect of Tarkanian that many people forget to talk about is the great passing skills his teams possessed. UNLV was one of the greatest passing teams in the history of college basketball.

[@cardphins68]

People also tend to forget how hard his teams played Defense, they could really get up in your face and force turnovers. Tark was indeed a great coach and deserving of the HOF.

[@danieldenieva3941]

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[@cardphins68]

@@danieldenieva3941 Well thought out response, Danny! Soon it will be the 1st of the month and you'll get your check, lol!

[@yeuurr1]

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[@matthewowen4508]

I sure don't. Was always amazed at how he got so many egos to be so unselfish...even the blue chippers.

[@mattfullenwider2479]

I graduated at UNLV in 1990. I was the same age as Danny Tarkanian and used to play against him in the 6th grade. We used to get all pumped up because we knew Tark was going to be there and watch us play and we wanted him to recruit us. The NCAA hated us - they were assholes. When the NCAA added the shot clock and 3-point line, that was it. Nobody could stop them. That 1990 team and actually the one in 1991, were the greatest ever. The stretch - or amoeba defense was throttling.

[@flyartism3112]

Just say what it is, the powers that be are racist and are always jealous of the same players that make them rich

[@shanefoster6976]

@@flyartism3112 hey your moron is showing.

[@flyartism3112]

@cacable7 was he ever arrested or suspended for a game during the run 🤔 all Caucasians are together gtfoh and my people have been the sacrificial lambs , it’s crazy how u say I’m racist and don’t even know me or my kind so 🤫 foreigner. Everybody’s foreigners except Mexicans, Canadian and South Americans. Your ancestors are from overseas my ancestors are the indigenous people of the land so I could never be a racist I don’t control any group of people economics ma’am, or have I or my people deprived anyone of their livelihoods like someone’s ancestors

[@CSDonohue11]

It’s been proven that Tark was not only The GOAT Basketball Coach But that the NCAA is nothing but greedy scum

[@matthewhohenbery2287]

@@flyartism3112Bro they use everything and everyone - regardless of color.

[@lt3tretrois]

Living on the east coast, they would broadcast all the UNLV games late night that year. It was like watching Tyson in his young career. They were so much faster and more powerful than every other team.

[@matthewowen4508]

One team that gets lost in the Rebels 1990 run to the championship (& Loyola Marymount's emotional tournament run) is Ball State. The team that Rick Majerus had put together before moving on to Utah had beaten Gary Payton's #22 Oregon St. team & Denny Crum's #16 Louisville squad before facing #1 UNLV in the Sweet 16. The Cardinals actually outscored the Rebs by 6 in the 2nd half before falling just one bucket short of what would have been one of the all-time tournament upsets. People remember UNLV's next game because they ended Loyola's tribute to Hank Gathers, but Ball St. was the closest shave they had on their way to cutting down the nets.

[@MVJTV]

Big facts. The only other nail biter they would have in the NCAA tournament was Duke in the ‘91 national semifinals.

[@Boss3Nate]

ppl forget about them bc they lost and there's nothing to remember. Unless you're a fan of the MAC.. they did win that.

[@traceywoodward1354]

There was also the 1990 Alabama basketball team that beat Arizona pretty bad in the second round and then only lost to Loyola by 2 points that actually have Loyola Loyola has final score in the sixties

[@justinmix143]

Wow, good call. I don't even remember that, and watched a lot of March Madness that year.

[@MegaSammy70]

Georgia Tech gave UNLV a good game also in 1990 final 4 game..That Georgia Tech team was really talented.

[@Old_Mansplaining]

Las Vegas was electric with excitement during that era . Running Jerry out of town has cost UNLV how many ten’s of Millions the past 30 years .

[@MVJTV]

Big facts!!

[@kevinpayton2664]

The team hasn't been close to what they were in the Tarkanian era. I've forgotten that the school has a basketball team.

[@FutureDeadpool]

The games were amazing. The year we wo. Everyone in this town were best friends. Also I met Larry Johnson at a tuxedo shop of all places, I was going to prom idk why he was there? Maybe for a suit for the NBA draft? I was wearing my UNLV final 4 shirt from the year we won 🏆 and he signed it for me. Awesome experience 👏 😎. He was driving a brand new black Chevy Corvette the plate said LJ on it.

[@babylouise3795]

That's phenomenal 👏😍🙌👌✨❤👏😍🙌👌

[@FutureDeadpool]

@babylouise3795 thanks 😊!

[@seand5259]

Loved the UNLV running rebels back in the day fun teams to watch

[@mg19cal]

The 1990 Rebels in the NCAA Championship Game was the first college basketball game I watched as a kid. The way they moved the ball was LITERAL poetry in motion. To this day it's my interpretation of how basketball should be played. And it also birthed my hatred of Duke

[@davidkuhlman8004]

it was big middle finger to all of the DUKE fans at the time.

[@jdneely9939]

I know the 80's Lakers are the official "show time" team but some of the 90's Rebels were damn as good. Their running n gunning style of play was pure basketball poetry in motion

[@arthurrobinson4644]

I agree 100 % . They were as good as some pro teams

[@arthurrobinson4644]

Probably better

[@willowbrook2717]

@@arthurrobinson4644 that's absolutely ridiculous to say.

[@shawnflanagan4995]

there were a lot of similarities. they'd play pacific or irvine or cs fullerton and the game was over iften in the first half. UCSB was always a problem though, especially in santa barbara.

[@johnharris3455]

Jerry Tarkanian was to the NCAA as Al Davis was to the NFL. He never backed down and made them look as bad as they tried to make him look. And through it all he just kept " Winning Baby".

[@MrBronx61]

💯💯💯💯💯Thank you sir! I hated how the NCAA went after Tark.....bunch of hypocrites.

[@johnharris3455]

@@MrBronx61 I agree, not only was "Shark" fighting the NCAA , he was fighting his own school, ie the athletic director . Ain't that some crap.

[@chipfuller2305]

RIP Coach Tark. One of the greatest. Unlv did this to themselves. Being a Rebels fan.....the leaders did the program in.

[@davidkuhlman8004]

Tark built up the school Maxson tore it down.

[@shawnflanagan4995]

maxson, ironically, wound up at cal st. long beach (AD or president; i forget which), where tark was before unlv.

[@antoniobrown7970]

Its a blessing to have been able to watch college basketball in the 90's I swear it was the best era and the most exciting era of college hoop.. the UNLV's , G-Tech, Dukes, Kentucky's, Fab Five, UCLA'S, ARKANSAS, etc... I would put that on my life... that was the best era of hoop

[@westonmeyer3110]

Not to mention the Bulls in the NBA.

[@hichcoc]

Oklahoma's, Kansas......

[@Biggdoom344]

Nah, the 80s. North Carolina, Georgetown and the big east, UNLV, Houston and phi slamma jamma, Louisville Drs of dunk, Kansas, Oklahoma, Indiana, DePaul, the NCAA tournament going from 48 to 64 teams, the 82, 83, 87, 89 championship games coming down to the final shot, Villanova upset of Georgetown in 85. The 90s were not close. Great teams but because this is the decade that started the two or one and done players or going straight to the NBA, the college product was watered down.

[@markuse3472]

@@Biggdoom344 The special thing about the 1990s was not just in basketball but also in other sports. It was the connection people had in the internet and it's explosion of it in the late 1990s, in addition to normal TV viewing . A huge college connection took place with alternative/grunge rock, it united them in many things including celebrating college hoops/sports unlike anything before. The Chicago Bulls and Jordan also helped college hoops to be seen as more fun. Saying the 1990s were not close to the 1980s is outright stupidity: many extremely exciting matches took place in the 1990s as they happened in other periods but the 1990s had more to celebrate to.

[@Biggdoom344]

@@markuse3472 I’m going to take a wild guess and say either you were not around in the 80s or too young to remember. College basketball and the NBA were watered down. Expansion and too many one and done or high school straight to the NBA..the play wasn’t as good. I mean the Knicks were a threat in the east for years with zero offense. That Knicks team would not have got out of the first round in the 80s. College basketball due to all the top players leaving after one year or skipping altogether watered down the college game. College hoops was dominated in the 90s by Duke mainly because most of their players stayed at least three years.

[@ifheavenwashuman]

I would’ve ran through 2 walls for Tark. It takes real guts to be a pioneer in a world that wants you to fall in line.

[@creagle26]

UCLA accusing anyone of cheating is hilarious

[@chrisayres2340]

dotted the eye with this comment, cheatin bastads, don't know what was/is worse that ucla bball program or the ncaa that knew and let them bag kids for over a decade and they didn't even hide it, but you had the "valiant" john wooden saying that he never knew or noticed the clothes and cars that his players were now somehow manage to have...wooden would have been an awesome ally to the nazi party, "i see nothing, i say nothing." hope that team in the underworld is good...i mean no ill will and was prolly a bit strong there at the end, i'm sorry, just joking a little and i'm in no position to judge anyone:)

[@benhaney9629]

Not sure about that. UCLA is on the up and up more than your average college I’d say. I mean for one, there is less of a booster culture there than in many colleges. I mean it’s far from the only show in town. Like for example Oklahoma. It’s the only sport team(s) in the area. And consequently there is a lot more of a focus and that can breed problems. Second, UCLA keeps a much higher standard for their student athletes than most schools. Both incoming student athletes and student athletes at the school. Like they don’t lower their standards as much as most schools do for their athletes. It’s actually really hurt them and is why, despite their history and pedigree, they are unlikely to have really good football or basketball teams in the future. Because too many kids don’t qualify academically and even some of those that do would rather go to a school with lower standards and expectations academically.

[@benhaney9629]

I mean UCLA, Berkeley, and Stanford probably have the highest academic standards for student athletes amongst schools that actually compete at the highest level. Top 100, top 50, top 25 football and basketball teams. Obviously you have Ivy Leagues but they don’t compete at the highest level like these three schools do.

[@jab1289]

Carl Reagle I don't think so. Look up Sam Gilbert. Tark even said that everyone knew how much he was paying players at UCLA. When Clean Gene Bartow took over for Wooden, he would call his JV coach and tell him that he couldn't believe what they were doing there.

[@kreighdizzle]

Really? Sam Gilbert??

[@ginoconde8605]

Man Larry Johnson and Shawn Marion, two amazing power forwards came from this university.

[@michaeltamares7974]

The ncaa hated the rebels. If Duke or ucla broke rules, the committee would just turn their back. If tark sneezed, they would fine him

[@babylouise3795]

Exactly 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯 😉

[@michaelcavallacci2945]

I love how the dude said “ Godrezak” threw a couple elbows. His teammate. While praising the other guys. Gonzo was a VERY good college player. Good shooter. Solid rebounder and ferocious defender. One of the key players on the team.

[@nathancoleman7235]

I never heard of this team until I first came across this video just this evening!

[@shawnflanagan4995]

you have no idea the fun that you missed.

[@therealdarrell282]

If JR Rider plays on the 1991 team, game over. Grant Hill would have to either guard Hunt or Rider. If he guards Hunt, Ruder drops fifty. If Hill guards Rider, Rider drops 30.

[@Zorn76]

It's not just this game...this was Still an Amazing time in the U.S.A...& an Awesome time to be in college.

[@cflo1386]

Am I just getting old or was everything back then better? College sports was better, Olympics, nba, nfl, nhl, mlb, tennis; man it was much more exciting watching those events back then.

[@robertdog]

We ARE getting old, but everything WAS better back then.

[@timgraysontv]

That game fixing mobster from Goodfellas narrated this video. I suppose that's Tark's fault, too... RIP Ray Liotta 🙏

[@Skinnyd4]

Those UNLV squads of the early '90s reminded me of the bad guys in the old westerns and kung fu flicks - they'd come into your town, just wreck shop and go, relishing every second of it. Man, did I hate them! But I sure did watch all those games... So what if I was on the East Coast and they started at ridiculous hours? So what if I often had to get up for school the next day (I was in ninth grade in 1990) - this was must-see TV - and I miss it. They may have been villains in my eyes, but they were still fun to watch.

[@MVJTV]

Great perspective. Duke was that for me!

[@averagecitizen8491]

@@MVJTV Duke and the trash tar heels get away with more these days. The stuff they pull makes Jerry look like a chiroir boy. The NCAA is biased and it seems like they fabricate evidence on smaller schools that have success.

[@davidkuhlman8004]

Duke were the "evil" team in that era for me.

[@bryanelam7431]

In the early 1990's I was in middle school in East Tennessee & believe me the running rebels were a big deal here too!!

[@douglassummers9901]

So Abe Vigoda was a UNLV Basketball coach and stared In Barny Miller as Fish?

[@k.d.1555]

Best 4 years of my life !!! #classof95

[@jeffrogers4002]

Seems to me that the NCAA did have it out for Jerry, was he perfect no, but with them settling with him for 2.5 million dollars seems to me they knew they were going to lose and would have to pay him a lot more. The NCAA is a long way from being perfect itself.

[@duftyboxing]

No way in HELL that was a charge that took G. Anthony outta the game. B.S.

[@92463mike]

Scary to think of Lloyd Daniels on that 1990 championship team. Greg Anthony would have been on the bench, THATS how great they would have been.

[@drcharlesbombay]

The ‘90 team was stacked!!!! I loved David Butler at the 5...

[@Lawomenshoops]

At 36 mins when Tark says Do it! Is that Anthony Jones who transferred from Georgetown, and became a first round pick in the NBA?

[@tytiger7176]

UNLV basketball has never recovered to this day.

[@MVJTV]

Big facts.

[@obsidian00]

Which is a shame…

[@huenhuan2103]

I may not like the guy but slick Rick Pitino is one of the few active coaches who can bring UNLV back to prominence. What was shady and sleazy before is the new norm with NIL rights and endorsements.

[@brianbooher7318]

They never will recover from what they an the nccaa done to them

[@bensawesomemixchannel7220]

almost got it. st.johns will be back quick.@@huenhuan2103

[@kenperkins7921]

Man I LOVED !! COLLEGE BASKETBALL IN THOSE DAYS!

[@kenperkins7921]

Now i dontwatch either one, thanks to black lies matter.

[@wewillnotlose]

Love my NOLES but the UNLV squad is truly the definition of Renegade! Kicked ass and ran teams off the court and did it their way

[@MrWoodMan23]

Rip Ray Liotta 🙏

[@tophat2002]

UNLV in early 90s had a good rep and also Arkansas

[@shawnflanagan4995]

arkansas beat just about everybody in that era. except unlv.

[@BaronVonBielski]

They were my first favorite college team. They were on TV even in California.

[@shawnflanagan4995]

yup. chick hearn would call the home games on channel 9 a lot of the time. because he did laker games here in l.a. too, it was almost like him doing unlv games made the rebels the home team for someone living in l.a., like me.

[@luisvaldes1568]

He would coach the NBA Spurs for about 17 games and gone. Not mentioned here. I forget what season that was, maybe 1992-93.

[@MVJTV]

1994

[@jerryalexander8803]

Best college basketball team I've ever seen, I didn't start watching college basketball until '84 with Patrick Ewing and Georgetown so I didn't see those UCLA teams..

[@warplanner8852]

You should get out more often.

[@jerryalexander8803]

@@warplanner8852 nah, I'm good, thanks for your concern thought.. No team playing in today is better than UNLV of the early 90s so I don't need to get out to see them, sorry 🤷🏿‍♂️.. Now go finish playing Minecraft, Peace ✌🏿

[@joshdavis73]

Excellent!!!

[@RebelHomer1977]

@2:08 - "UNLV Basketball, that's my thing." Hahahahah. That's my Grandma. RIP Grandma.

[@MVJTV]

Really? That’s rad! What’s her first name?

[@RebelHomer1977]

@@MVJTV Alice Garth was her name.

[@RebelHomer1977]

@@MVJTV Better yet, at 1:01:15 is my grandma's sister Amelia. Also RIP. "Let's Go rebels!"

[@MVJTV]

@@RebelHomer1977 Love it. Will be sure to make a special note. I think I’ve quoted your Grandma before, such a great phrase!

[@brianbooher7318]

Unlvs 1990 team was greatest team in history of college basketball.

[@Atonement-]

The 90 & 91 team.... Although the same... They're both the best.... The 91 game was seriously questionable on being legitimately played

[@drcharlesbombay]

@@Atonement-, agreed... almost the same team. Not a knock on Ackles in ‘91 but I liked Butler at the 5 spot in ‘90...

[@fdrisgreat]

I loved that team but I would love to seen that 1990-1991 UNLV team play against the 1994-1995 Kentucky team. They were two most dominant teams of the 1990s and the last thirty years.

[@lloydkline1518]

Track meat basketball: : fastest team down the court ;win

[@drcharlesbombay]

@@lloydkline1518, LMU took a page or two out of that playbook in the late 80’s/ early 90’s... Vegas beat em though, Sweet 16 or Elite 8... 131-101 (without Hank Gathers though)

[@CSDonohue11]

The 90 & 91 Teams are Thee Greatest NCAA Teams since Lou Al’s UCLA

[@markmiller3308]

LV’s first pro team and they were worth watching.

[@wwilliaml619]

Long live Tark!! UNLV forever!!

[@BWIL2515]

I was there before Tark Ricky Sobers was my guy. Pat booster also I lived in the old gym. Big Lou Brown the memories are great too look back on. And I watched how hard they coached one day Danny was working on his passing alley OOP a hour and half over and over the left side and the right I wasn't suppose to be in the gym but almost all the coaches new my face and never ran me out. Coach would always ask how I was doing. I don't think people know how hard these guys worked the game was a break for them

[@randallbowman2930]

There's not a college team of the last 20 years that could compete with that 1990 UNLV team, let alone defeat...

[@DrLuke49]

Had Tark the Shark been coaching the University of California Compton Hustlers then he would have remained head coach.

[@chrisayres2340]

kimmell didn't receive a degree from unlv, he was awarded an honorary degree....he did attend unlv for 1 year, but transferred to asu and graduated from there, not even certain he had received that honorary degree by b4 2005, which is when this aired according to poster of this video????

[@rogerakline6148]

It's like someone keyed your car and drove it in to the pool? Huh? What? They may not lose for 10 or 15 years? I almost stopped watching because of that idiots comments.

[@GhostDrummer]

I couldn’t figure out why he was in this video. I thought I missed something, so I went back to watch it again hoping I’d find out why…nope, never did.

[@joshuaclark1930]

Never watched a video in 18p video quality before. Now I can say I have.

[@GoofyFootersRule]

Stacey augmon was king to us in Pasadena in the 90s.

[@MVJTV]

Stacey is an awesome dude.

[@ethad123]

Duke/UNLV game was fixed in 1991 in favor of Duke to prevent UNLV from winning back to back championships. NCAA would not allow that to happen

[@fdrisgreat]

The Richie the Fixer photos killed them not Duke. I always thought they were point shaving that game. It was a phenomenally great college basketball team.

[@antoniojohnson8443]

@@fdrisgreat The only player on the 91 team in the fixer photo was Anderson Hunt and he killed Duke. After watching that game 100 times, the only player that looked like he was throwing the game was Augmon. He played by far the worst game of his career.

[@Atonement-]

@@antoniojohnson8443 u both are right...But don't forget, there were more than just the hot tub photo...We don't know if Augmon was there or not, might've not gotten in jacuzzi... I've seen another photo where they're all playing a pickup game in Fixers backyard.... Butler was in that photo and Scurry as well along with Hunt ... but Augmon was definitely the obvious suspicious one... And not just his performance, but his excuse! Was totally ridiculous ("had a long night partying or whatever").... Fixer was also in the stands that game against Duke.

[@MVJTV]

@@Atonement- Did Tyson throw the Douglas fight? Did Lewis throw the Rahman fight? Did the Patriots throw the 18-0 super bowl game against the Giants? Unthinkable upsets happen.

[@Atonement-]

@@MVJTV don't be the nerd in class ... Was Richard THE FIXER Perry at the Tyson Fight, Patriots game, etc??? Bro! And furthermore, u make me have to dunk on u by bringing up the fact you're comparing professional sports with collegiate sports (at a time in history where the NCAA was absolutely PILLAGING & USING these athletes for profit).... And, I'm a Vegas native, and have seen more than several examples of gambling debts leading to unfavorable actions to get caught up, else face the music.... Gimme a break.... The Pats didn't suck, Tyson didn't suck, they got outplayed.... The 91 final four game??? Where The Fixer was in the lower deck?? They sucked less 2 or 3 guys who didn't.... Augmon, who was my favorite, *DELIBERATELY CAVED ON DEFENSE* and if u watch closely, you'll agree.

[@harrymiram6621]

1989-92 UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball=Indoor 30m/95ft track meet! Laying the groundwork for Indoor Arena Football....and not even know it!-lol

[@earnestpeeplesjr8948]

Anyone notice @ 22:21 the dude in the yellow jersey who hit his head on the floor and is now concussed???

[@drcharlesbombay]

Who is that @1:39? Is that Basnight?

[@sa-leemha-nee3776]

Yes. Jarvis Basnight.

[@MTXSHO9732vV8SHO]

Tark's career disruptions were brought to you in the spirit of Adolph Rupp. Funny, back in those days I was around guys from both UNLV and Indiana. You think it will last forever (and it won't)

[@j-real7233]

What a great or interesting damn story should I say! I had fell asleep and KZbin was was on autoplay. This video literally woke me up. I'll have to rewatch the whole video, but it seems like everybody unjustfully had it in for Jerry & his black players. I would like to hope that's not the case.

[@delorean785]

*RIP Tark🦈*

[@MrScareface11]

Can’t believe I forgot about Armon Gilliam. 😂

[@shawnflanagan4995]

he died a few years back. went to work out. had a heart attack.

[@dwightlove3704]

Reggie Theus was Magic Johnson for UNLV

[@richardmartinez2476]

My favorite team in late 80s early 90s

[@charonbond9715]

In the end, Tark beat the NCAA.

[@chrisayres2340]

don't remember any of those unlv players, stomping a guy in the chest while he was on his back and still allowed to hit the game winning shot in the same game, oh now i remember that was one of those goody too shoes characters and he also happened to be there team leader...love it how the unlv team is referred to as thugs and "beatin everybody up."....not 100 on this, but i'm also fairly confident, i can't find the article now but it reflected that going into that game for that season, duke had 6 more technical fouls called on them than unlv....not so sure the commentary of this video would be allowed in today's society....oh and btw laettner sucks and hurley swollows t-shirts are for sale...JK and i'lll grow up "someday"....this is the typing of someone who lost it a couple years back, so be easy eyone;)

[@benhaney9629]

Yeah but you are talking about the difference between “thuggish” play on the court and “thuggish” activity in real life...

[@benhaney9629]

And Duke actually maintains relatively high academic standards for their student athletes...

[@benhaney9629]

Obviously a lot of this is image and perception but it’s not complete bullshit.

[@jab1289]

@@benhaney9629 No, they don't: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fX_UeaWLf8Zlfa8

[@mongoslade277]

That guy that stomped on the Kentucky player chest should've been ejected. He wasn't ejected bc he plays for Duke. If Larry Johnson of UNLV or Mashburn of Kentucky stepped on a players chest like that they both are ejected and suspended for a game

[@lorenzoramirez3063]

Who remembers 2pac wearing Running Rebel gear.

[@dwightlove3704]

They were the Lakers of college basketball

[@Biggdoom344]

Tark is still right. The ncaa will put Memphis state on probation while ignoring the Kentucky, UNC, Kansas, Louisvilles of the world.

[@pp3k3jamail]

That's because my Kansas jayhawks, North Carolina, Duke UCLA, Kentucky generate huge money and revenue. Those Programs fans travel that equals major money.

[@Biggdoom344]

@@pp3k3jamail oh I know why they ignore them. Putting those schools on probation hits their pockets.

[@jab1289]

@@pp3k3jamail Yeah. And, that's why college sports needs to be blown up. It is fraudulent. The UCLA teams under Wooden are a big example. So much cheating.

[@davidkuhlman8004]

@@pp3k3jamail NCAA is all about the money and making sure that those schools get the best talent. Tark found a way to beat the rigged system and fought him.

[@jennifersalva3573]

Ironically this is the reason I stopped watching college basketball... once I watched the referees literally give the duke Blue devil's the game over UNLV in 1991...I have not watched a college basketball game since..... that was disgusting to watch

[@marketingheavydutytowcompa6996]

Naw, the NCAA is a joke. Always has been, always will be. God Bless Coach Tark☝🏀🥇🏆😎

[@INYB]

Did you hear the cops bragging? Why?

[@kennybegeske8824]

Las Vegas Rebels Needs To Go To The NBA Draft Class

[@EarthdogGFX]

Watching winning time .. i wonder how Tark would of done in LA in 1979

[@dwightlove3704]

Wow Chick Hearns the voice of the Showtime Lakers

[@kjdenton6248]

Sam Gilbert nuff said

[@MVJTV]

UCLA’s bag man

[@uncleloof]

only one chip? i coulda sworn they had two or three. they were so dominate, or at least it seemed they were to my sort of interested in college basketball mind in the early 90's.

[@arthurrobinson4644]

Who's program was no different that no one else is they just didn't like the fact that he had the title of rebels with a whole bunch of black athletes who can run and Gun and fit the up-tempo nba-style that was going on

[@MVJTV]

They also didn’t like that he stood up to those bullies.

[@arthurrobinson4644]

@@MVJTV 100%

[@timhunter8945]

It seems like everybody wanted them to lose of course they had a swag like no other in college b ball one of the coolest sportsmanship i every saw was when they played LMU the year before during the introduction of that game when they went over to Paul Westhead and shook his hand giving their respect to Hank Gathers now that was very classy but the media called them thugs hoods ignorant all of the negatives right on REBELS🤘🤘🤘🤘

[@shawnflanagan4995]

i'm in LA, and got into unlv in the mid 80s because their home games were on channel 9 here. but those LMU teams were like UNLV on steroids,. i thought they were great. they're the only college basketball teams that i ever looked for their games on the radio (they weren'pt on tv). they were on kxlu, campus radio. i loved the lions then, so imagine how i felt when the only team standing in the way of LMU getting to the final 4 is.......unlv. why??

[@Toneloc1818]

First time I saw the Rebels......channel 9 KTLA on tape delay.

[@hasanmuhammad3916]

Grown ass men on running rebels UNLV running teams out the building 💨

[@TheCountofToulouse]

Tark built that basketball center, it should be named for him. He made UNLV a national name and NCAA, for what ever reason, like a COMMUNIST (Show me the man and I'll FIND the crime), indeed harassed him and his program, like a pack of minions, turning over every rock and scrap of paper for ANYTHING to use against him. In a university CHOOSES to support a sports program in order to raise it's profile and attract players, the players should receive compensation and the OPTION to focus on their studies as well as a monthly allowance with a cap. 4000 a month during the season sounds pretty reasonable.

[@kasheem1747]

I’m way across the pacific highway and they me feel like I was part of the team like I won a championship lmao

[@tmat2024]

Laughing at Daniels wearing an NC State Wolfpack hat and a UNLV sweater.

[@kevinsteele8771]

They all stayed in school because going into the NBA would mean taking a pay cut 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰🤑🤑🤑

[@MVJTV]

Wasn’t a damn thing wrong with it either. NCAA tried to make it look like a sin all the while everyone was doing it...and still do. 💯

[@benhaney9629]

I mean at least pay them for their likeness. The idea that they can sell a jersey with a kids name on it and not pay the kid... smh. And they hide behind morals and student athletics and amateurism when really it’s just about greed. They want the money for themselves. It’s pretty disgusting that they adopt the moral high ground.

[@MVJTV]

@@benhaney9629 They never had moral high ground to begin with.

[@TheTruth-on5zx]

make no mistake there is no bigger criminal in the room than the.................................NC2A

[@KORYANDRELSCOTT-yh7lr]

I miss what UNLV Basketball 🏀 once was, especially between the Mid 80’s and Early 90’s at their Peak of Greatnesses under the Late and Legendary Jerry Tarkanian aka “Tark The Shark” 🦈 Powerful and Hateful People took away our Coach, destroyed the chemistry and recruitment of the Rebels and eventually even took our Mascots Away too. 👎🏾

[@MVJTV]

FACTS

[@jenniferwise8515]

Pistol Pete Marovich the most exciting player of the last 60 yrs( everyone copied him) and UNLV under Tark the most exciting teams( teams copied them also). Best coach is Jimmy V, Valvano 1983 NC State.

[@dalelambdin208]

I have to disagree about Jimmy V being best coach he wasn’t top 3 in own conference let alone best in country.

[@jenniferwise8515]

@@dalelambdin208 to each his own. He beat Duke and UNC etc.

[@mongoslade277]

Valvano was a motivator and a great in-game coach. A national championship. 3 Elite 8's. 3 ACC Championships. All that in 10 years. Didn't have the talent that Carolina Blue had and that Duke had. Valvano was a better coach than coach k & smith

[@kincamell2]

Heavy

[@terrenceliburd8655]

Reggie Theus and Micheal Ray Richardson = Little Magic Johnson's.

[@robertbanks9825]

ONE THING YOU CAN SAY ABOUT UNLV WHEN UNLV WENT WEST COAST BASKETBALL WENT TO SO WENT THE NCAA THEY HAD NO COMPETITION OUT WEST FOR DUKE AND NORTH CAROLINA 😳

[@funkyworm6517]

Long Live Tark!

[@PhillyCYOSports]

They took down Tark, they destroyed Paterno. We know who the real villains are.

[@markuse3472]

One must watch these extravagant videos to think more than these people or teams actually were. In the end, winning teams and franchises are remembered, not a friend of mafia-support Sinatra or a teams quick-moving pace. Good grief and good riddance. They can make a video of a dog droppings appear interesting and exciting but only for the feeble masses.

[@MVJTV]

Is that you, Bob Maxson? They were actually better than what the documentary depicts, which is rare. What a hater. lol

[@unlvrebelx]

TF you taking about??? This team was every bit as good (or better) than what people thought.

[@stephaniegormley9982]

28:30 That's very petty of Maxson. If he thinks Tark cheated, that's one thing. Investigating that is his job. However the basketball (or football) coach will ALWAYS have a more famous face than the university president. Maxson should accept that or not take the job.

[@MVJTV]

That’s only scratching the surface with the destruction Maxson caused. After he jettisoned Tark he hired Rollie Massimino and essentially paid him money under the table…an extra, secret contract not known of or approved by the university’s board of regents. Once that was uncovered he was fired, proving to everyone (mostly his proponents) in town that he was the rat all along.

[@dwightlove3704]

Reggie Theus was the equal of Magic Johnson everyone talks about the game between Indiana St vs Michigan St picture a championship game with Michigan St vs UNLV featuring Reggie Theus vs.Magic Johnson!!!!!

[@matthewowen4508]

No, he wasn't.

[@dwightlove3704]

@@matthewowen4508 Why not what did Johnson have that Theus didn't????

[@matthewowen4508]

@@dwightlove3704 EVERYTHING

[@dwightlove3704]

@@matthewowen4508 I disagree

[@matthewowen4508]

@@dwightlove3704 I'd love to say you're not alone, but...

[@leefarrington3064]

If Fab 5 had Tark we would won

[@st7728]

At 18:38. I think somebody should have investigated Walter! He looks as shady as the Teflon Don!

[@Bigj87420]

Indiana 97 UNLV 93!!! Go Hoosiers!!!!

[@shawnflanagan4995]

that game was my first sports heartbreak. i root against indiana to this day. 😢