I’m not the smartest man, but I know it’s easier to slip on a wet surface than a dry one. And slipping risks injury. If you need stats to tell you that slick surfaces are more dangerous, than there isn’t much to talk about. On a hard surface like cement or wood, I would definitely agree. However, o...

Seems like a good pickup. In his career he's a 50/36/70 shooter. Efficient player. Might be the best we can realistically hope for in a D1 transfer. I think he can contribute. Out of curiosity, I was looking at what happened with the players that were named first team all-Summit league this past se...

People upset that game was canceled because of weather is really bizarre. It’s spring, no need to even risk anything. For the most part, I agree with what you are saying. A couple thoughts: 1) The Wyoming coaching staff thought the Spring Game was important enough that they rescheduled it. If it wa...

WYO1016 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:24 pm

I like this pick-up.

I’m also not sure where this narrative of ‘injuries are more common when the field is wet’ comes from. I’m not aware of any data to back that claim up. As far as I know, the single greatest risk factor for a non-contact injury in football is playing on artificial turf surfaces, of which The War and ...

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/apr/25/pac-12-mailbag-next-steps-for-the-pac-2-schools-an/ This guy thinks cherry picking is more likely than merger. He never really states his reasons for believing that. It seems to me that for the cherry picking scenario to occur, it would require less tha...

After thinking about this, I'm not sure the idea of 1 umbrella will ever work. If history has taught us anything it's that some schools will eventually feel like they are carrying the weight and should recieve a larger share. We see it across and even within conferences. Greed has made college foot...

Sounds a lot like a collective bargaining agreement. I don't mind the idea of securing a media deal as one large group of universities, as long as it actually results in more money for UW. I guess it all comes down to how much money the MWC could garner for a media deal on its own. I'm not sold on t...

Wow. I guess we can put the "cowboy tough" slogan to rest. LOL! :rofl: I am truly having a tough time swallowing the idea that 40 degrees and some precipitation was enough to cancel a Spring Game at the University of Wyoming. I could understand if the temperatures were in the single digit...

Wow. I guess we can put the "cowboy tough" slogan to rest.

303cowboy wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:13 pm Time for Taco Johns to step it up

We can wish. Taco John’s is still a fairly small company. Their gross revenue in 2023 was somewhere around $110 million. Not chump change, but when you compare it to the $90.2 BILLION in revenue that FedEx had last year…not sure Taco John’s could afford it.

If the UW athletic department tries to play the NIL game as it is currently played, they are going to lose that game badly. Our alumni base is relatively small and many of those alumni moved out of state and do not feel connected enough to the university to make any sort of significant monetary cont...

While this "back alley" compensation of athletes was probably ubiquitous at larger programs across the country, I don't think it was occurring to any significant degree at UW. When compensation of college athletes became legal through NIL laws, it gave schools who already had "illegal...

Far more likely if any Wyoming player shows they have NFL level talent, they will enter the portal at the end of the season . Yes. It’s a strange situation…especially for QBs. Outside of NFL first rounders, there is now more money to be made by quarterbacks through the portal than the draft. It is ...

https://twitter.com/7220sports/status/1779962483941187984 Very disappointing news. I’m someone who is very high on Svoboda, but even if he is the second coming of Josh Allen, our backup is very likely to see the field for a significant amount of time at some point in this coming season. Right now t...

^NIL forces the schools to include it in their marketing and recruiting. "Hey, come to Alabama because not only will you play for a national title every year, but you will earn all these NIL deals because you could be one of the best athletes in the nation. We will support you." Do you re...

[quote=TheRealUW post_id=279995 time=<a href="tel:1712786953">1712786953</a> user_id=296] Significant NIL money very well may be a prerequisite to athletic success.. .at least for the next decade while the system is in its Wild West unregulated infancy phase. If that is the case, it very ...

https://twitter.com/portal_updates/status/1778539222468812927 Maybe Linder has the right idea here. After all, we are 0-1 against Fort Lewis all time. I was just thinking about how Fort Lewis beat us in the opening game of the 2015 season the year after we won the MWC tournament and went to the big...

Significant NIL money very well may be a prerequisite to athletic success...at least for the next decade while the system is in its Wild West unregulated infancy phase. If that is the case, it very well may be the downfall of UW athletics as we have known them in the modern era. There are a lot of W...

The same Pat Kelsey whose Charleston team lost to Jeff Linder and Wyoming in Myrtle Beach back in November? The same Pat Kelsey who started 22 games at Wyoming as a true Freshman before he decided he was better than UW and transferred to Xavier where he never started another college game again? Ever...