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...

It's going to be a rough 10-15 years until this whole NIL thing gets ironed out. Things cannot, and won't, continue like this forever. The current state of affairs in college sports, and men's basketball in particular, is alienating fans across the entire country. When these fans quit paying to atte...

There is no doubt that offering Svoboda out of Snow College was a major gamble. It was a reach, and 98% of the time, those don’t pan out. Hopefully he is an outlier. I’m not sure any tape from HS or JUCO is really relevant to the player Svoboda is today. Our best metric for making any predictions is...

I am very optimistic about Svoboda. The game he played at Texas made me a believer. He made 2-3 throws in that game that I haven't seen a Wyoming QB in the past two decades make other than Josh Allen. He isn't an elite runner/scrambler, but I was surprised with his scrambling ability against a very ...

Living their 15 minutes of fame 1 game at a time...lol...yeah if you transfer pay it back to the school u left...sellouts... Saw where a kid (grew up in Iowa) went to Alabama, was offered $100k to transfer to Iowa, took the money and transferred back to Bama. This whole thing is out of control Beat...

This is as good as it will ever get for NCAA athletes. Give it 10 years...the majority of NIL deals will be incentive based. If you don't play well, you don't get paid. I would also not be surprised if we start seeing contracts that legally oblige the athletes to commit to a specific school/team for...

The problem with NIL as it currently exists is that it has created a professional sporting league where athletes are paid by unaffiliated third parties rather than the schools (ie the employers) themselves. This gives all of the negotiating power to the athletes and none to the schools/coaching staf...

Caden Powell - gone Seems that 2 seasons is the limit for most players under Linder. Not sure Powell will ever be much of an impact player on any mid-major (or higher) college basketball program. He has very poor hands and is not very poised with the ball in tight spaces down low. I do think he cou...

This sounds like complete horse crap. The best athlete on the team? And he couldn't see the court over Kojenets - a guy who looks like he has trouble getting food to his mouth. If that's true, then Linder should be fired right now for gross incompetence. Read the article. Or even the post you are r...

Interesting snippet from Cody Tucker's article on Theodosiou transferring: https://7220sports.com/wyoming-basketball-loses-freshman-guard-to-ncaa-transfer-portal/ Jonas Sirtautas, a 6-foot-10 forward from Lithuania, spent the season with the team in Laramie but was ruled ineligible. According to Li...

The generally accepted recommendation is that you should save a minimum of 10x your annual salary if you want to retire at age 67 and live a similar lifestyle in retirement. If you want to travel and have some fun in retirement, you will need much more than that. This also assumes you have a home th...