Last night after work, a couple friends and I went to have a couple beers and shoot the bull. One of my friends came in late and as he was sitting down, looked at the t.v. and Wyoming was down by 27. He just shook his head and quietly said “wow”.
I asked him if he was going to Laramie on Saturday for BYU. He said “you could offer me a limo, stock it full of Crown, throw my friends in with, let me sit next to Dave and Kevin on press row and I still wouldn’t go.” I asked him what he was going to do then on Saturday. “I think Brad and I are going ice fishing on Boysen.” I said “what?? You have never ice fished before in your life!!” He just said “I have nothing else to do.” I asked him if he was at least going to take his radio and listen and he said “what part of ‘I don’t care anymore’, do you not understand?”
This comes from a guy that I watched spend $2,000, that he didn’t have, right out of college, to make a trip to New York to watch the Pokes play in the NIT Final Four back with Fennis and company. The same guy that has gone around road gates to get to Laramie for games when the road was closed because of snow and blizzards. The same guy that has had season tickets to Cowboy football and basketball for as long as I can remember. The same guy that donates more money to the Cowboy Joe Club than I make in 3 months of work and I have a pretty decent job!
Folks, I have been saying that this program is in deep trouble and if the University starts losing too many boosters because of apathy, it is really scary as to what might happen. My friend said that he isn’t renewing his basketball tickets next year and like I said, he has had them for ever, and he is not just blowing smoke…. he is dead serious! If too many people are thinking this way, how and when will they, if ever, come back?
Right now, apathy is a very dangerous and scary word.
I asked him if he was going to Laramie on Saturday for BYU. He said “you could offer me a limo, stock it full of Crown, throw my friends in with, let me sit next to Dave and Kevin on press row and I still wouldn’t go.” I asked him what he was going to do then on Saturday. “I think Brad and I are going ice fishing on Boysen.” I said “what?? You have never ice fished before in your life!!” He just said “I have nothing else to do.” I asked him if he was at least going to take his radio and listen and he said “what part of ‘I don’t care anymore’, do you not understand?”
This comes from a guy that I watched spend $2,000, that he didn’t have, right out of college, to make a trip to New York to watch the Pokes play in the NIT Final Four back with Fennis and company. The same guy that has gone around road gates to get to Laramie for games when the road was closed because of snow and blizzards. The same guy that has had season tickets to Cowboy football and basketball for as long as I can remember. The same guy that donates more money to the Cowboy Joe Club than I make in 3 months of work and I have a pretty decent job!
Folks, I have been saying that this program is in deep trouble and if the University starts losing too many boosters because of apathy, it is really scary as to what might happen. My friend said that he isn’t renewing his basketball tickets next year and like I said, he has had them for ever, and he is not just blowing smoke…. he is dead serious! If too many people are thinking this way, how and when will they, if ever, come back?
Right now, apathy is a very dangerous and scary word.