Former UNLV Interim Prez Snyder Recalls Hosting First Closed-Door Raiders Stadium Meeting With Owner Davis In 2014
By ALAN SNEL
LVSportsBiz.com
With UNLV expecting the Nevada Regents Friday to green light a deal for the university to use the Raiders football stadium in 2020, there's a prominent, behind-the-scenes deal-maker who helped make the stadium happen but who won't be in the meeting room.
No, not billionaire casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson.
He's Don Snyder, the even-keeled former interim UNLV president who hosted the first official closed-doors stadium meeting with Raiders owner Mark Davis in 2014 at UNLV.
It's no secret that former Raiders player Napoleon McCallum, who works at Adelson's Las Vegas Sands Corp. hotel-casino company, chatted with billionaire Adelson about the idea of the Raiders moving from Oakland to Las Vegas.
But the 70-year-old Snyder, a former ban