I just hope we don’t get boned. There should be some sort of guarantee that all MWC schools will join OSU and WSU if we are going to help them out I agree. I would be very suspicious of a plan to prop up WSU and OSU so that those schools can realize the benefits of the Pac12 assets, and, then later...

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/pac-12-expected-to-be-two-member-conference-in-2024 If true and huge if, it's the beginning of the end for the MWC. I wonder where we end up. The only thing this is doing is making sure Oregon State and Washington State have a plan for next year. They're go...

https://athlonsports.com/college-football/pac-12-expected-to-be-two-member-conference-in-2024 If true and huge if, it's the beginning of the end for the MWC. I wonder where we end up. A lot depends on MW exit fees, doesn’t it? With notice, they'll be 17 mill. It's a lot but not insurmountable. Take...

https://athlonsports.com/college-footba ... ce-in-2024

If true and huge if, it's the beginning of the end for the MWC. I wonder where we end up.

I'm behind and looking through the lines. Sjsu is -4.5 over usu. I'm not sure on that. Seattle what's your take on that one? I don’t like that game one way or the other for betting on it. This is what I’m playing today Ohio St. -4 think it might be up to -5 now. Should still be good. Alabama -8.5 F...

I'm behind and looking through the lines. Sjsu is -4.5 over usu. I'm not sure on that. Seattle what's your take on that one?

LawPoke wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 2:01 pm

ragtimejoe1 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:00 am


How much of the athletic budget comes from student fees?

A 2022 audit says about $2 million out of $50 million in total revenue.

Interesting. Small percentage of the overall budget but it would also be about 50% of our TV contract.

As a taxpayer, I'm interested in student success not necessarily public school success. If the latter achieves the former, then they will have no problems in a voucher system. I trust parents to make the best decision for their kids way more than I trust public school beurocrats. The taxpayer money ...

Vouchers can’t really work in states like WYoming. Communities are too small and capital costs of building schools or renovating old buildings are too expensive. Maybe with Charter schools, but if they are religious, they can’t receive public funds per the constitution. And my guess is that voucher...

Regarding quality staff, I would have to look it up, but I'm not sure that UW offers competitive pay for professors. We will build all sorts of new buildings, but won't pay professors well. Dumb. .... To reverse the trend I'd get better leadership on the BOT and start paying professors and attract ...

Hope he can stay healthy!

Source? It’s now official and finally being reported. Despite the positive spin (there is none), Wyoming has its lowest enrollment since 1987. https://www.wyomingnews.com/news/local_news/uw-reaches-lowest-enrollment-since-the-late-1980s/article_9f69f000-6a1a-11ee-9efb-07f9c5b98251.html What are the...

This staff has a bunch of guys that would likely be 2nd string or vfurther at a lot of schools. Through a lot of coaches, that seems to be consistent lending credence to the theory that it's hard to recruit to Laramie. However, this staff has them coached up, playing mostly mistake free, and maybe t...

This team will never win another conference title. It just won’t. I thought this was the year. Crushing. I REALLY hate admitting this but...I honestly agree. We are never ever winning a conference championship. Hope you all remember 1988 with Paul Roach coaching us 'cos the last time we'll ever say...

I guess I'm an outlier. To me, POKES feel like a team that's going to be pretty dangerous by the end of the season.

Missed a few plays. Gotta learn how to win big games on the road.

Meh, 2 pretty good teams. They made a few plays when it counted and we didn't.

Win out and get even.

Their dismantling of usu is better than it looks based on usu's record, imo.

They'll be as bad or worse than byu...especially at first. The alternative is the Pac2 raiding enough MW schools to avoid paying exit fees. Not sure how UW figures into the equation. I don't think that works but I could see them going pac2 for a year then raiding the mwc for 0 exit (or whatever the...

LanderPoke wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 6:53 pm I don’t even want Washington state or Oregon state. They think they are better than us and would be resentful. They would constantly be looking to break up the conference . Pass. Not good for wyoming

They'll be as bad or worse than byu...especially at first.

OrediggerPoke wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 5:09 am
BTW ‘Dino’ apparently was so persona non grata everywhere that he legally changed his name (again). So in some sense ‘Dino Costa’ no longer exists.