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Douglaspoke
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Watching Louiisville Ole Miss national TV game tonigjt.
Wyo is 5-1"against those 2 teams.
We will never see those teams again
Wyo is 5-1"against those 2 teams.
We will never see those teams again
Thoughts / Opinions / Possibly Obvious Stuff:
1) There are a lot of WYO alums with significant upper middle class money/savings but they don't live in WYO anymore and they're not the type of people that give money to sports programs. I know a lot of them. They left after college and some still go to a game now and then but they're not big donors. That just is what it is.
2) The TRULY mega-rich folk that live in WYO aren't natives and couldn't care less about the school or its sports programs, or the state overall. They like the buzz of living in Teton County and the low tax environment of the state. The "oil rich" folk in the state are a few families in Casper and there aren't that many of them and there never were. A broad base of local landowner oil wealth never developed in Wyoming because of the high precentage of federal minerals vs private fee mineral rights. The ratio isn't good. And that all stagnates in a lot of ways and has always been a drag on the development of broad local oil and gas wealth and private expendable discretionary money.
Every producing federal oil/gas lease operated by a Houston company and paying overriding royalty interests to the original federal lease-flipping individual in Denver, Dallas, or Tulsa is money not staying in WYO to a private mineral Lessor. The federal government is the Lessor and is the main royalty owner. Again, it's no one's fault, it's just land ownership history.
3) Overall there isn't a ton of optimism in Wyoming right now, and it affects the school. The Damocles Sword of shaky oil/gas/coal/trona revenues long term keeps the local politicians spooked. The new industries (micro nuclear, uranium processing, rare earth minerals, data centers, nickel mining, etc) could be significant tax sources but they won't contribute much at all on the human employment front.
4) Coach Sawvel seems to be like a good forklift driver in the shop who got promoted to his first manager gig. Peter Principle. Possibly not a horrible human being, but he's overwhelmed and needs to go back to assistant coaching somewhere.
5) I wouldn't get too down on the football season just yet. This QB looks to be stout and the RBs are good. A couple of WRs are skilled and Jake Wilson in particular is a diamond in the rough. If he stays healthy, look out. The DBs are a concern, and the OL needs work. A few things will likely get straightened out. With this schedule I wouldn't be surprised to see 6 or 7 wins. Would that be even close to the best days of Poke football? Hell no, but you've got to start from where you are.
(Personal Note: I'm not a WYO native and didn't go to UW. I lived in the state for 3 years a long time ago and have a personal connection to a previous local (wife). I have a season ticket that I will always renew and we live far away. I usually send most of my game tickets to a Laramie charity. I don't donate mass sums of money to the program nor do I drive 300 miles in crappy weather to home games, so I understand the angst/frustration of those folks who have been in that boat. And I loathe CSU like Satan.)
Go Pokes! Sorry for the long post.
1) There are a lot of WYO alums with significant upper middle class money/savings but they don't live in WYO anymore and they're not the type of people that give money to sports programs. I know a lot of them. They left after college and some still go to a game now and then but they're not big donors. That just is what it is.
2) The TRULY mega-rich folk that live in WYO aren't natives and couldn't care less about the school or its sports programs, or the state overall. They like the buzz of living in Teton County and the low tax environment of the state. The "oil rich" folk in the state are a few families in Casper and there aren't that many of them and there never were. A broad base of local landowner oil wealth never developed in Wyoming because of the high precentage of federal minerals vs private fee mineral rights. The ratio isn't good. And that all stagnates in a lot of ways and has always been a drag on the development of broad local oil and gas wealth and private expendable discretionary money.
Every producing federal oil/gas lease operated by a Houston company and paying overriding royalty interests to the original federal lease-flipping individual in Denver, Dallas, or Tulsa is money not staying in WYO to a private mineral Lessor. The federal government is the Lessor and is the main royalty owner. Again, it's no one's fault, it's just land ownership history.
3) Overall there isn't a ton of optimism in Wyoming right now, and it affects the school. The Damocles Sword of shaky oil/gas/coal/trona revenues long term keeps the local politicians spooked. The new industries (micro nuclear, uranium processing, rare earth minerals, data centers, nickel mining, etc) could be significant tax sources but they won't contribute much at all on the human employment front.
4) Coach Sawvel seems to be like a good forklift driver in the shop who got promoted to his first manager gig. Peter Principle. Possibly not a horrible human being, but he's overwhelmed and needs to go back to assistant coaching somewhere.
5) I wouldn't get too down on the football season just yet. This QB looks to be stout and the RBs are good. A couple of WRs are skilled and Jake Wilson in particular is a diamond in the rough. If he stays healthy, look out. The DBs are a concern, and the OL needs work. A few things will likely get straightened out. With this schedule I wouldn't be surprised to see 6 or 7 wins. Would that be even close to the best days of Poke football? Hell no, but you've got to start from where you are.
(Personal Note: I'm not a WYO native and didn't go to UW. I lived in the state for 3 years a long time ago and have a personal connection to a previous local (wife). I have a season ticket that I will always renew and we live far away. I usually send most of my game tickets to a Laramie charity. I don't donate mass sums of money to the program nor do I drive 300 miles in crappy weather to home games, so I understand the angst/frustration of those folks who have been in that boat. And I loathe CSU like Satan.)
Go Pokes! Sorry for the long post.
