carbonpoke
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okey dokey
so it sucks we lost. I had it on my phone for about 15 minutes when things got ugly. Im not here to bash the performance, or pump sunshine. but I have been doing a lot of thinking about Wyoming athletics and I have a few thoughts I want to pass on.
first off, I view the game of football as one of the fastest inflating businesses in the world. the past decade has brought way to much change for my liking, and the next decade I fear will be even worse. So the questions I ended up asking myself yesterday are as follows.
1. how long do any of the non-p5 schools have to make a statement? I whole heartedly believe we have at max 5 years at most from today to get ourselves, and the other colleges that don't matter, to achieve sustained success enough to not be left behind. in many ways, we were left behind 15 years ago. But I have a glimmer of hope that if we can have consistent winning records in successive years, we could at least keep our current status of just below the P5. not a ton of time... pretty much poop or get off the pot. so, there are a few things going for us that I think we need to look into. the big one is cost of attendance and the deregulation of certain NCAA guidelines. which led me to my second question.
2. what can help us secure recruiting, regardless of P5 membership. I started thinking about what positive aspects recruits talk about in regards to the university of Wyoming. what do kids like about Wyoming, that they cant get else where? open spaces, the outdoors, and hunting and fishing. these are the big three. have you been to eddie Yarbrough's twitter page? he has a picture of a string of fish, while wearing camo... which is weird, cause I didn't think that you need to wear camo while fishing lol...
so here is the idea, after all that crap you had to just read and digest. this idea is about getting ahead of the inflation, about embracing Wyoming and adding a recruiting pitch that just can't be angled unless you are a Wyoming resident.
What if we legislated a change to our cost of attendance. this would include all sports, male or female, and would without a doubt be a home run. I think our full cost of attendance is around 3200. I propose we raise it $800-1000 to start a four year hunting residency with caveats. this would not be cash to students, but it would start a program that "teaches life in Wyoming". it would have to be worded in a way that walks a grey area.
the program would look something like this. the 800-1000 bucks would be an annual item. incoming freshman would go to hunter safety course, or they could choose not to ever take money for hunting. in which case those that choose could use their year program money to take a outdoor inspired trip... like a summer float trip on the north platt near encampment... etc.
if they do choose to take the resident hunting side... then they attend the hunter safety course. after freshman year, the program would offer the athlete a guided hunting trip, paid for through cost of attendance. the student pays nothing. this would be provide for the entire length of scholarship.
coaches could than say "do like hunting and fishing... well we offer that in Wyoming. We cover that in your scholarship". it basically would give us a unique selling point. Now, this is not the only way to go with this. but I think some changes need to be made... get proactive instead of reactive.
I just needed to get that out of my system. at least we have things to think about instead of north dakota
so it sucks we lost. I had it on my phone for about 15 minutes when things got ugly. Im not here to bash the performance, or pump sunshine. but I have been doing a lot of thinking about Wyoming athletics and I have a few thoughts I want to pass on.
first off, I view the game of football as one of the fastest inflating businesses in the world. the past decade has brought way to much change for my liking, and the next decade I fear will be even worse. So the questions I ended up asking myself yesterday are as follows.
1. how long do any of the non-p5 schools have to make a statement? I whole heartedly believe we have at max 5 years at most from today to get ourselves, and the other colleges that don't matter, to achieve sustained success enough to not be left behind. in many ways, we were left behind 15 years ago. But I have a glimmer of hope that if we can have consistent winning records in successive years, we could at least keep our current status of just below the P5. not a ton of time... pretty much poop or get off the pot. so, there are a few things going for us that I think we need to look into. the big one is cost of attendance and the deregulation of certain NCAA guidelines. which led me to my second question.
2. what can help us secure recruiting, regardless of P5 membership. I started thinking about what positive aspects recruits talk about in regards to the university of Wyoming. what do kids like about Wyoming, that they cant get else where? open spaces, the outdoors, and hunting and fishing. these are the big three. have you been to eddie Yarbrough's twitter page? he has a picture of a string of fish, while wearing camo... which is weird, cause I didn't think that you need to wear camo while fishing lol...
so here is the idea, after all that crap you had to just read and digest. this idea is about getting ahead of the inflation, about embracing Wyoming and adding a recruiting pitch that just can't be angled unless you are a Wyoming resident.
What if we legislated a change to our cost of attendance. this would include all sports, male or female, and would without a doubt be a home run. I think our full cost of attendance is around 3200. I propose we raise it $800-1000 to start a four year hunting residency with caveats. this would not be cash to students, but it would start a program that "teaches life in Wyoming". it would have to be worded in a way that walks a grey area.
the program would look something like this. the 800-1000 bucks would be an annual item. incoming freshman would go to hunter safety course, or they could choose not to ever take money for hunting. in which case those that choose could use their year program money to take a outdoor inspired trip... like a summer float trip on the north platt near encampment... etc.
if they do choose to take the resident hunting side... then they attend the hunter safety course. after freshman year, the program would offer the athlete a guided hunting trip, paid for through cost of attendance. the student pays nothing. this would be provide for the entire length of scholarship.
coaches could than say "do like hunting and fishing... well we offer that in Wyoming. We cover that in your scholarship". it basically would give us a unique selling point. Now, this is not the only way to go with this. but I think some changes need to be made... get proactive instead of reactive.
I just needed to get that out of my system. at least we have things to think about instead of north dakota
rly:
Conservation stamp was $125 and fishing was like $150ish. Best money ever spent.
