It's Monday and neither Burman or Sawvel are fired

[ragtimejoe1]

Your conviction that the single variable of "accepting mediocrity" is to blame for everything blinds you to any nuance or confounding factors. I guess I assume that you are like me in that you don't possess privileged inside information about the inner workings of the BoT or the UW presidents office but maybe that is my mistake. From the outside looking in, it looks like a lot of well meaning and under qualified people that are having mediocrity thrust upon them. That is different than "accepting" it.

The paths forward for UW athletics are not as clear as you make them out to be. As outsiders (assuming you are an outsider), we get the privilege of never having our ideas tested. All your ideas about how to use funds to buy out contracts and hire new guys that are highly likely to turn things around are so seductively easy to write on a message board aren't they? In general, they are too simplistic to ever be implemented and because they won't be implemented you will always be able to say "see how stupid everybody is?.. If only they would listen to me!".

Anyways... Part of me hopes you are a mad genius who gets put in charge and then you can bring Wyoming to the greatness that the previous administration has kept us from achieving. I would love that!

I don't think it takes an insider to know the PBJ decision is a disaster nor does it take an insider to know that salary savings, foundation, etc. could be used if the will were there.

Now, there is no guarantee the next hire(s) would be great. They might be worse. The get canned or promoted accordingly. The commitment to excellence, not just words, doesn't waver.

There are challenges at anything. If you're right and the challenges are so great that we can be nothing more than mediocre in a conference of UNLV, UNM, AF, UTEP, HI, SJSU, NV, then the above point is true. Drop athletics. If you're satisfied with just fielding teams and view hurdles too high to compete, then drop athletics. You are abusing taxpayer dollars. Alternatively drop to a level you don't need taxpayer funding.

The same goes for the buyout. This is of course nonsense. They can easily cover the buyout. Remember when I suggested an 800k contract + inventives and was roasted by some of the same people now complaining about the contract? Too funny.

You seem to have this armchair qb undertone or as Bohl said, the little league coaches. Advocating better people isn't really a stretch. Sticking with a failing symptom contributes to a culture of mediocrity. You can dissect each contribution if you want to convince yourself it's not there, and that's your opinion. For me there are several symptoms of the culture, and we need the right people to start cleaning it up as much as possible.

Conference realignment pulled the cover off the poor me crap. Our position relative to resources compared to peers improved with each realignment and is about to again yet our success largely did not.

 

[307bball]

I don't think it takes an insider to know the PBJ decision is a disaster nor does it take an insider to know that salary savings, foundation, etc. could be used if the will were there.

Now, there is no guarantee the next hire(s) would be great. They might be worse. The get canned or promoted accordingly. The commitment to excellence, not just words, doesn't waver.

There are challenges at anything. If you're right and the challenges are so great that we can be nothing more than mediocre in a conference of UNLV, UNM, AF, UTEP, HI, SJSU, NV, then the above point is true. Drop athletics. If you're satisfied with just fielding teams and view hurdles too high to compete, then drop athletics. You are abusing taxpayer dollars. Alternatively drop to a level you don't need taxpayer funding.

The same goes for the buyout. This is of course nonsense. They can easily cover the buyout. Remember when I suggested an 800k contract + inventives and was roasted by some of the same people now complaining about the contract? Too funny.

You seem to have this armchair qb undertone or as Bohl said, the little league coaches. Advocating better people isn't really a stretch. Sticking with a failing symptom contributes to a culture of mediocrity. You can dissect each contribution if you want to convince yourself it's not there, and that's your opinion. For me there are several symptoms of the culture, and we need the right people to start cleaning it up as much as possible.

Conference realignment pulled the cover off the poor me crap. Our position relative to resources compared to peers improved with each realignment and is about to again yet our success largely did not.

Freud observed the "vanity of small differences" wherein people focus on their own hyper-specific ideas and fail to appreciate the broad similarities in others with whom they have minor differences. In an effort to avoid that....I would like to point out that your first two paragraphs are versions of things I have said on this message board. As far as I know... You and I were among the few that predicted Sawvell would not be able to achieve what Bohl had accomplished. I also don't take issue with pointing out what could be done from a fiscal standpoint in regards to coaching contracts. So what the heck is the disagreement?

First...not wanting to buy out Sawvell and hire another coach for 2025 (which is what I want by the way) is a defensible position to take. I disagree that people in that camp are spouting nonsense...even while i disagree with them.

Second...you are correct that it does not take an insider to observe certain things (like Sawvell being a bad coach), but it does take one to be certain (as you seem to be) of some of the tales you are weaving regarding the motives and reasoning people are acting on. You are remarkably consistent in not allowing for people like the BoT and UW president to be capable of error.....it's like nothing is the result of a misstep or having limited options...it's all a manifestation of corruption with you.

When it comes to armchair quarterbacking...I agree with Bohl on that one. He's forgotten more about what it takes to be successful in college football than any 20 of us message board warriors knows. I'm good with reminding myself of that and kind of like that he was a prickly cuss when it got down to it. The "poor me" crap is a weird one to bring in to this. I did not think Joe Glenn had a good reason to suck back when BYU, TCU and Utah were kicking the crap out of the MWC and Sawvell doesn't now either. That is different than noticing that college football is broken....Bohl didn't really have much success against the top of the conference but we at least didn't suck...we suck right now...that is what I find intolerable. I do wonder if what happened at UW from about '88 to '96 is a thing of the past though. Having a nationally relevant program may not be attainable anymore ... at least I don't see the path towards one. That is the past that most of us want to have happen again. When people talk about being a good program again, they are not talking about being competitive with UNM, Utah St, SJSU and UNLV...they are talking about being on the level of the best programs in the rocky mountains...including BYU, CU, and Utah. Being in the top of whatever watered down conference that is in our future is going to feel bad for all of us.

Finally...as usual, you have provoked thought and conversation and I appreciate that. Hopefully we didn't offend the short attention span folks with these epistles.

 

[ragtimejoe1]

. You are remarkably consistent in not allowing for people like the BoT and UW president to be capable of error.....it's like nothing is the result of a misstep or having limited options...it's all a manifestation of corruption with you.

To be clear, the only corrupt action as it appears to me is hiring with the intent to promote Junior.

Mistakes happen. Failing to address mistakes is acceptance

 

[307bball]

To be clear, the only corrupt action as it appears to me is hiring with the intent to promote Junior.

Mistakes happen. Failing to address mistakes is acceptance

Possibly...possibly. More accurately:

Failing to address mistakes is could mean acceptance among other things.