Football and basketball usually charter. Most other sports do not. The United flight isn’t always at a workable time and it is expensive (especially trying to get 20 or so seats on it). Laramie has poor air accommodations. Realistically, Cheyenne needs to get a twice daily commercial flight to Salt Lake thru Delta and/or a flight to Las Vegas to provide any improvement to the situation.
We can defend Laramie and argue until we are blue in the face that all the reasons people hate Laramie are not actually correct and it won't matter. Opinion is opinion. The media, conference-mate fanbases, and even conference-mate administrations have spoken. They hate the high plains. Now...Does the blame for this lie with the tourism board or Burman or the Laramie chamber of commerce for not having an effective marketing strategy? Maybe...but I doubt it. I love laramie but I have had a lot of interaction over the years with people I respect who have either lived there or spent time there and they just don't like it. It is what it is. The answer is to field great teams...There is no other way.
I do get this. But the ewes FB program has been a disaster since Lubick. And others would have Hawaii over UW?
Indeed, BYU stayed in Cheyenne but flew a 757 charter out of Laramie back to Provo.
Hopefully enough to jettison Sawvel and hire a real coach (after we fire Burman)
I hope Gloria doesn’t talk Burman in to accepting peanuts saying it’s for the good of the conference and nobody wants Wyoming so be happy with peanuts.
Couldn’t all these agreements just be voided in the case of a merger
Sure if all the parties agree to ‘void’ them. Why would UNLV and Air Force agree to that? It’s the same thing as when the MWC tried to have a secret vote to eliminate Boise’s yearly $1.8 million deal. You can’t just unilaterally decide not to pay the consideration you already agreed to provide.
Because it might be (probably is) in UNLV and AF’s best interest to be in the PAC 12.
As a football only member, do they need to? They do not count towards the eight required for a FBS conference.
I believe they were admitted as a ‘member.’ They signed the last iteration when Utah State held out.
Hawaii has now signed. Apparently last minute negotiations with PAC fell through.
The PAC is scrambling> My guess they thought once they got BSU,CSU, FSU, and SDSU to join , it would be easy to get 2 others to hop on board. Inviting USU strikes me as a sign of desperation. as does the lawsuit.
Welcome to Wyonation. I agree with your sentiments! No clue on the CSewe section, as I didn't look for tickets, but that said, if WYO and CSewe continue to lose, we will have our choice of seats on stubhub, for dirt cheap.
I’ve been keeping an eye on the board since I started as an undergrad in 2015. Posted a few times here and there but don’t usually get into the discussions. Mainly post around times when Wyo and SJSU play in either football or basketball. Correct misinformation here just like I correct misinformation on the SJSU board about Wyoming.
