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by TheRealUW
Fri May 03, 2024 12:01 pm
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: Off-season: collective bargaining
Replies: 15
Views: 584

Re: Off-season: collective bargaining

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/sec-big-ten-developing-plan-to-share-revenue-with-players-in-potential-landmark-change-to-college-athletics/ I'm sure everyone saw this but if not, revenue sharing is happening. My guess is p4 split and g5 shares go to players. They'll have to come up...
by TheRealUW
Thu May 02, 2024 7:16 am
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: Football Transfer Portal
Replies: 16
Views: 1291

Re: Football Transfer Portal

Gavin Meyer to hit the transfer portal. I don’t understand that one. This is pure speculation, but could be more than just money/football at play with this transfer. Since he has already graduated, maybe he is looking for a specific postgrad program that UW doesn't offer? He is a good football play...
by TheRealUW
Tue Apr 30, 2024 1:29 pm
Forum: Wyoming Basketball, Wrestling, etc
Topic: 24-25 Roster
Replies: 103
Views: 9762

Re: 24-25 Roster

Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. When the AD gets serious about rebuilding the program, call me. 1. Fire Linder 2. Hire a coach from outside a 100-mile radius of campus and that the current AD is not buddies with a. Hire a coach that isn't a jackass b. Hire a coach that players want to play ...
by TheRealUW
Sat Apr 27, 2024 2:08 pm
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: Spring Game Cancelled
Replies: 29
Views: 1454

Re: Spring Game Cancelled

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...
by TheRealUW
Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:21 am
Forum: Wyoming Basketball, Wrestling, etc
Topic: 24-25 Roster
Replies: 103
Views: 9762

Re: 24-25 Roster

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...
by TheRealUW
Sat Apr 27, 2024 9:09 am
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: Spring Game Cancelled
Replies: 29
Views: 1454

Re: Spring Game Cancelled

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...
by TheRealUW
Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:01 pm
Forum: Wyoming Basketball, Wrestling, etc
Topic: Any new transfers?
Replies: 41
Views: 3255

Re: Any new transfers?

WYO1016 wrote: Fri Apr 26, 2024 1:24 pm
I like this pick-up.
by TheRealUW
Fri Apr 26, 2024 6:28 pm
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: Spring Game Cancelled
Replies: 29
Views: 1454

Re: Spring Game Cancelled

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 ...
by TheRealUW
Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:05 am
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: Conference musical chairs
Replies: 181
Views: 77421

Re: Conference musical chairs

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...
by TheRealUW
Thu Apr 25, 2024 1:42 pm
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: Conference musical chairs
Replies: 181
Views: 77421

Re: Conference musical chairs

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...
by TheRealUW
Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: Conference musical chairs
Replies: 181
Views: 77421

Re: Conference musical chairs

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...
by TheRealUW
Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:24 pm
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: Spring Game Cancelled
Replies: 29
Views: 1454

Re: Spring Game Cancelled

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...
by TheRealUW
Tue Apr 23, 2024 2:07 pm
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: Spring Game Cancelled
Replies: 29
Views: 1454

Re: Spring Game Cancelled

Wow. I guess we can put the "cowboy tough" slogan to rest.
by TheRealUW
Sat Apr 20, 2024 10:35 am
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: FedEx to Provide $25 Million in NIL to Memphis
Replies: 6
Views: 579

Re: FedEx to Provide $25 Million in NIL to Memphis

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.
by TheRealUW
Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:49 am
Forum: Wyoming Basketball, Wrestling, etc
Topic: Any new transfers?
Replies: 41
Views: 3255

Re: Any new transfers?

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...
by TheRealUW
Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:56 am
Forum: Wyoming Basketball, Wrestling, etc
Topic: I agree with Coach Kelsey...
Replies: 14
Views: 1573

Re: I agree with Coach Kelsey...

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...
by TheRealUW
Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:17 pm
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: How do you feel about the QB position
Replies: 88
Views: 6252

Re: How do you feel about the QB position

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 ...
by TheRealUW
Mon Apr 15, 2024 6:49 pm
Forum: Cowboy and MWC Football
Topic: How do you feel about the QB position
Replies: 88
Views: 6252

Re: How do you feel about the QB position

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...
by TheRealUW
Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:32 pm
Forum: Wyoming Basketball, Wrestling, etc
Topic: I agree with Coach Kelsey...
Replies: 14
Views: 1573

Re: I agree with Coach Kelsey...

^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...
by TheRealUW
Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:06 pm
Forum: Wyoming Basketball, Wrestling, etc
Topic: I agree with Coach Kelsey...
Replies: 14
Views: 1573

Re: I agree with Coach Kelsey...

[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 ...