It sure seems
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:00 am
Excellent bball is a more attainable goal at WYO than excellent football.
Throw the bank at Linder and the AA.
Throw the bank at Linder and the AA.
Yep! We went from an awful team that was 2-16 in the conference 2 years ago to a team that is 20-3 with an RPI of 10 and a NET of 28. This is mind boggling!!ragtimejoe1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:00 am Excellent bball is a more attainable goal at WYO than excellent football.
Throw the bank at Linder and the AA.
Also - it should be much easier to find NIL money for a team of 12 players versus a team of 80 players.ragtimejoe1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:00 am Excellent bball is a more attainable goal at WYO than excellent football.
Throw the bank at Linder and the AA.
It'd be interesting to reevaluate that in the new mwc. Definitely still could be true but if not counting state funding and student fees, does football still turn big profits? I honestly don't know.
Football also drives conference realignment.
This is a great argument. There’s a much better chance at doing something on a national scale playing hoops than football. Like you said, even if we win football conference championship, what does that get us? At best an ny6 game? What would we rather have versus what is attainable? Sweet 16s are probably more attainable than a ny6 game. Even though I like football more, I still talk about sweet 16, McClain’s team win over Gonzaga and shyatts tournament appearance more than anything that happened in football besides the 96’ team that flamed out.seattlecowboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:47 pm Money should have been put into basketball a long time ago and just let football be as mediocre as possible. Football already hasn’t been good with putting too much into it.
Football will never compete again to win anything of significance. Who cares if you win the MWC these days and go play in a crappy bowl no one wants to see.
At least in basketball you can compete with the best, like many other smaller schools than Wyoming have and you get a chance to play for it all at the end of the year.-
Man...for the first time I'm seeing the rationale of this argument. I have long been unconvinced that Wyoming football will ever be relevant....(and gotten a raft of s$#t from this board for that).You really can't say that about basketball. I have seen this floated a few times but the more I think about it...the more it aligns with what I believe to be happening in college athletics. There is no path, right now, to be a "good" football program outside of heavily supported big time schools. There is no access to the upper echelon of competitiveness. That is not true in basketball. In basketball, you can get the right coach and recruits anywhere! Now we just have to pony up.laxwyo wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 1:38 pmThis is a great argument. There’s a much better chance at doing something on a national scale playing hoops than football. Like you said, even if we win football conference championship, what does that get us? At best an ny6 game? What would we rather have versus what is attainable? Sweet 16s are probably more attainable than a ny6 game. Even though I like football more, I still talk about sweet 16, McClain’s team win over Gonzaga and shyatts tournament appearance more than anything that happened in football besides the 96’ team that flamed out.seattlecowboy wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:47 pm Money should have been put into basketball a long time ago and just let football be as mediocre as possible. Football already hasn’t been good with putting too much into it.
Football will never compete again to win anything of significance. Who cares if you win the MWC these days and go play in a crappy bowl no one wants to see.
At least in basketball you can compete with the best, like many other smaller schools than Wyoming have and you get a chance to play for it all at the end of the year.-
If I’m being honest with myself, a crappy bowl win might be equal to winning a game in the conference tournament. Winning a single game in the ncaa tournament might be more exciting than anything the football team could do outside of beating a top 10 team or something
I think we already know what life with an average to below average football team looks likeragtimejoe1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:32 pm
The big thing is if money is shuffled away from football, what would life look like with an average or below average football team AND an above average to exceptional basketball team?
Great article! Thanks for posting it.Cowduck wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:44 pm Seems relevant to this discussion and I haven’t seen it posted here:
https://gazette.com/sports/paul-klee-ri ... 4e055.html
It’s possible Linder really values the quality of life in Laramie and that he would be happy staying long term. Not a lot of jobs would offer easy access to fishing the North Platte. We shouldn’t assume that we can lowball him just because Wyoming suits his lifestyle goals, but we also shouldn’t assume it’s a foregone conclusion that he’ll bounce to some mid-level P5 job the first chance he gets.
I admire your optimism, buuuuuuuut it is indeed a foregone conclusion.Cowduck wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:44 pm Seems relevant to this discussion and I haven’t seen it posted here:
https://gazette.com/sports/paul-klee-ri ... 4e055.html
It’s possible Linder really values the quality of life in Laramie and that he would be happy staying long term. Not a lot of jobs would offer easy access to fishing the North Platte. We shouldn’t assume that we can lowball him just because Wyoming suits his lifestyle goals, but we also shouldn’t assume it’s a foregone conclusion that he’ll bounce to some mid-level P5 job the first chance he gets.
I admire your clairvoyance, but I’m not gonna write off the possibility he stays for a while on the currently available evidence. I’m also not gonna be surprised if he bolts, but good coaches have stayed a while in worse jobs than Wyoming and made them into something.BackHarlowRoad wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 10:10 pm
I admire your optimism, buuuuuuuut it is indeed a foregone conclusion.
He's not staying long.
I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts, no doubt.
Wyoming should have always been known more as a basketball school. Brandenburg coulda built a Gonzagalike program at UW...but it sometimes pretends to be something it'll never be. Yes football is fun too but I'd rather support Top 25 basketball teams year in and year out than crappy bowl games awarded for 6-6 seasons. NIT and NCAA runs are way more fun imho...ragtimejoe1 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:00 am Excellent bball is a more attainable goal at WYO than excellent football.
Throw the bank at Linder and the AA.
Hell, if Linder likes to fish that much I can take him to some places that’ll blow his mind. Linder! Seriously. Look me up!Cowduck wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:44 pm Seems relevant to this discussion and I haven’t seen it posted here:
https://gazette.com/sports/paul-klee-ri ... 4e055.html
It’s possible Linder really values the quality of life in Laramie and that he would be happy staying long term. Not a lot of jobs would offer easy access to fishing the North Platte. We shouldn’t assume that we can lowball him just because Wyoming suits his lifestyle goals, but we also shouldn’t assume it’s a foregone conclusion that he’ll bounce to some mid-level P5 job the first chance he gets.
I agree.LanderPoke wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 7:41 amHell, if Linder likes to fish that much I can take him to some places that’ll blow his mind. Linder! Seriously. Look me up!Cowduck wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 8:44 pm Seems relevant to this discussion and I haven’t seen it posted here:
https://gazette.com/sports/paul-klee-ri ... 4e055.html
It’s possible Linder really values the quality of life in Laramie and that he would be happy staying long term. Not a lot of jobs would offer easy access to fishing the North Platte. We shouldn’t assume that we can lowball him just because Wyoming suits his lifestyle goals, but we also shouldn’t assume it’s a foregone conclusion that he’ll bounce to some mid-level P5 job the first chance he gets.