500 grand for a QB

[phxpoke]

Most of the athletes today are not about facilities or an education, they want the money. It is the reality of D1 sports today. I just wish we knew what we are paying for. I’m tired of throwing good money away and not knowing where it’s going and who is getting it.

 

[PorkerPoke]

Michigan State just received a $400 million dollar donation. Darn - there goes another set of players that wouldn’t have considered a MWC team anyway.

 

[ragtimejoe1]

If we want to win more games, we need better players. Fire all the coaches you want...if we don't have better players than the other guys, or at least as good, we're going to lose more often than we win. (And, by the way, nobody who can coach worth a damn is going to come here until we assure him we're going to buy the level of players he needs.)

This is not 1978. The old bullshit is gone...and by the old bullshit I mean recruiting 17-year-olds who become indentured servants for 5 years while we give all the money to the adults who have the hallowed job of teaching kids how to run around with an oblong ball on grass and crash into one another. That's over.

If we don't want to do this...that's fine. We'll be able to hang, maybe, only with other teams who won't do it either. We just have to find a league of those teams, and it's sure not the one we're in.

This is pro sports, and if we want to have a team in this pro sport...well, you get the point.

This and you can't be half-assed. You're either in to the most you can be or your out. I'm very opposed to taxpayer money going to nil unless we get creative with investment accounts and the state retains the principle + modest gain. I realize they lose a little in opportunity cost, but in my hypocritical opinion, it's more palatable and one of the main ways we can gain traction because we are the only University in the state.

I agree with Bosler. Pay to play the modern game or just do club sports. Once you cross the line of paying players like free agents, I personally think it's a fool's errand to try to determine how much is acceptable. I don't really like any of it, especially for teams like WYO who rely on taxpayer- and student-funded "revenue" to stay afloat, but it is what it is. I think it is a greater disservice to use the current funding rate from taxpayers and students to continue to fund one of the worst athletic programs in the country that will only get worse if NIL is half-assed.

On the flip side, I think it's pretty important for athletic departments like WYO's to get a much better grasp on the value of the department to the University and sell that.

 

[WYOFLETCH]

So we are going to have to pay a QB 500 thousand from the portal to get him to come to Laramie? What has college sports come to and can we actually find a QB in the portal willing and worth 500 thousand? If we win 4 games again and the QB sucks like the last 2 years he gets 500 thousand, what is our current QB make and do we still have to pay him if he stays and sits the bench?

Our problem is our HC Sawful is in over his head. He probably wasn't the best DC, because C. Bohl was a DC by trade he probably helped Sawful out.

But Wyoming wont get better until they get a new HC, he can't coach the boys up that is the problem and has been the problem since day 1 of his hire.

 

[bladerunnr]

I see it going the other way. Stupid numbers paid for the first few years but economics typically prevails in the long run. These numbers are being supported by some schools with donors willing to pay dollars thinking they can buy a championship (only to realize that they ended up in a nonsensical arms race not tied to any real revenue dollars). Donor fatigue is not far away. Rationality will prevail in the long run.

Maybe. The coaches salaries and buyouts have been out of control for a long time now. If anything, the buyouts are even more frequent and costly than ever. I would have thought this madness would start to subside but if anything, we're seeing even more firings during the season.
NIL is not going away. But at some point, I would guess the transfer portal rules are going to change. This unlimited free agency is going to destroy college football and basketball. Why should a school like Wyoming give a scholarship to a high school kid, develop him, and then lose him the second he proves he's good enough to get paid by some big pockets school? It's unsustainable. The Graham Ike defection ruined our basketball program for at least 2 years. The players have too much power now. I don't know how to change it.

 

[BigO4WYO]

Maybe. The coaches salaries and buyouts have been out of control for a long time now. If anything, the buyouts are even more frequent and costly than ever. I would have thought this madness would start to subside but if anything, we're seeing even more firings during the season.
NIL is not going away. But at some point, I would guess the transfer portal rules are going to change. This unlimited free agency is going to destroy college football and basketball. Why should a school like Wyoming give a scholarship to a high school kid, develop him, and then lose him the second he proves he's good enough to get paid by some big pockets school? It's unsustainable. The Graham Ike defection ruined our basketball program for at least 2 years. The players have too much power now. I don't know how to change it.

I don't agree with the players that play for 5 schools in 5 years, but I don't know if the players have too much power as much as they have equal footing in the business that is college football now.TV networks/money ruined college football, then coaches, and now the players are having a turn. It's completely F'd up but you're either in the game or you're out.