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Roster makeover a tough but necessary move for historically bad Rebels

UNLV Rebels head coach Marvin Menzies during his team's basketball game against Nevada Wolf Pack at the Thomas & Mack Center on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017, in Las Vegas. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Erik_Verduzco

Marvin Menzies was a beaten man beyond just a scoreboard Saturday, the raw honesty of his emotional words rightly painting a picture of UNLV basketball in its current grim and unforgiving state.

When you are in the first year leading a program and your team is this bad, the rebuilding process can’t begin until the present tense of inferior ability has been addressed.