Fire Burman

[Douglaspoke]

Hey Cup--good to see you here! I was good at GWG, but my $$$ allocations for anything UW ath had to be trimmed back--just didn't see the ppoint anymore. I hope I am proved wrong at some future date!

 

[LawPoke]

They don’t even need to be creative to raise NIL money. They just need to try a little bit.

It’s not that Burman and his crew are unable to raise funds for rev share and NIL, it’s that they have actively avoided it because they feel like the state won’t culturally accept it. There are VERY simple things being done around the country like surcharges on season tickets and concessions that we could have been doing several years ago.

We suck at NIL because Burman, Seidel and the trustees decided the consequences of sucking at NIL were less toxic for them than the consequences of admitting their facilities-first fundraising model of the past 20 years was wrong

Fact is, others have embraced or at least reconciled with the realities of running modern athletics departments. Wyoming just can't. We can bark about our craptastic programs, but we WILL NOT compete unless we go all in on NIL. I don't make the rules/reality, but we can't and won't change them. IT is very clear that Burman, Seidel, the Legislature and many on this board hate this new era (the half-hearted, ill fated, and uncreative push for state funded NIL notwithstanding). I'm not loving it to be honest. But if we don't change our thinking, we will continue in our death spiral. In 5 years or less, we will have either elevated our NIL game and become competitive in the MWC and region or we will be bloodied and lifeless on the doorstep of FCS.