CSU is kicking our butt...

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SnowyRange
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:lol: God Bless WYO fans. As long as we can spin it to make it look good on a per capita basis, all is good.

Not meaning to be a jerk here, but this is exactly what the independent committee was talking about when they said WYO was accepting a culture of mediocrity and using our limits as excuses.
Sure, there are no limits, no realities...no numbers, no facts that matter.

By gosh, by golly, if some vague group of powers-that-be just understood -- understood, deep in their bones -- the deep, deep analysis that "CSU is kicking our butts" then, why, it would all be fixed.

As the independent committee pointed out, they don't put up with this stuff at Hogwarts. They get out their wands and make things happen.

But, yes...God bless us, everyone.
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SnowyRange wrote:
Sure, there are no limits, no realities...no numbers, no facts that matter.

By gosh, by golly, if some vague group of powers-that-be just understood -- understood, deep in their bones -- the deep, deep analysis that "CSU is kicking our butts" then, why, it would all be fixed.

As the independent committee pointed out, they don't put up with this stuff at Hogwarts. They get out their wands and make things happen.

But, yes...God bless us, everyone.
Well, I do agree that with this administration, getting our tails kicked every way there is, is the reality and the limits of their vision.

A competent administration, however, and we would have new realities.

The independent committee was 100% right; WYO accepts mediocrity and uses excuses as validation.

How many points are they going to spot us each game because of our limitations? We have good coaches and terrible support for them. Put it this way, it couldn't hurt at all to try a new administration. It simply couldn't get much if any worse than the last 8 years.
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Douglaspoke wrote:#8: It might take money from the state legislature or whatever, but the airport in Laramie must be upgraded to allow teams to be able to fly in.

Once a team comes in the university has vans waiting and they are whisked to one of the new hotels east of the stadium.

No hassles and no argument, in fact easier than flying into one of the larger metro airports with this set up!
That was done a decade or more ago. When weather impacts DIA, jumbos sometimes get diverted to Laramie.
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LawPoke and BeaverPoke are so right on this it hurts. We are better than CSU in one, and only one, regard and that's facilities.

Facilities have been the easy answer for this administration for about a decade now. And why not? Blalock raises the money from the McMurrys, Martins, Rochelles or Maury, the legislature puts up the rest because it really is hard to spend an extra $100 million over budget every year, and the AD trumpets that we now have world class facilities and that the wins will surely follow.

The facilities are nice and we should all be grateful to the donors and the legislature for investing in them. But the university as a whole - not just athletics - has forgotten that PEOPLE win games and build success. Smart, motivated, well-compensated people.

The Business College, Engineering, etc have received more money for faculty but they are largely paying the same faculty as was here before. They're not out in the market stealing faculty from Tier 1 institutions, they're just paying who we already had a little bit more.

We've sunk tens of millions into athletics facilities but the recruiting and assistants budgets have stayed essentially flat, or worse, against inflation for YEARS.

Until that changes - until we have parity with CSU and others in the region and the conference in spending as a whole, not just on facilities - it will remain accurate to say that yes, CSU is kicking our butt.
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