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TexasTowelie

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Wed Sep 14, 2016, 06:44 AM Sep 2016

UNLV announces Fertitta family will donate $10M toward football facility

From the day Tony Sanchez was hired as UNLV coach, he’s said that building an on-campus football facility was essential to moving the program forward and having success.

Sanchez’s vision for that facility will soon be realized with the announcement Tuesday afternoon that the Fertitta family has pledged $10 million — the largest single gift in UNLV athletics history — toward the construction of a 73,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art training facility that will be known as the Fertitta Football Complex.

“I knew when I took this opportunity that this was a diamond in the rough, that this could be an incredible job in an amazing community, and it could help change the face of the university and this gift allows us to move towards that,” said Sanchez, who was hired by UNLV in December 2014 after building Bishop Gorman into a national prep football power.

The two-level complex will be built in the north end of the team’s practice area at Rebel Park, which is located between the UNLV baseball park, Wilson Stadium, and the Fertitta Tennis Complex.

Read more: http://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/unlv-rebels/football/unlv-announces-fertitta-family-will-donate-10m-toward-football-facility

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UNLV announces Fertitta family will donate $10M toward football facility (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP
You can't bury the past under the 50 yard line if you don't have one, can you Mr. Fertitta? Ford_Prefect Sep 2016 #1
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