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NIL money

Vapoke said:
Wait...he got a pay raise?
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In his original contract amendment that extended him through 2027, it only outlined his guaranteed compensation through June 2025. The amendment explicitly states that the university and Burman would work to sign an additional amendment in the future that would outline his guaranteed compensation from July 2025 through the end of his contract in 2027. That additional amendment, which I do not believe has been reported on, may have increased his guaranteed compensation. This would be pretty easy to get through an open records request from the university.

That original contract amendment also outlined deferred compensation that Burman would receive if he hit a certain amount of performance metrics. Not sure how much that women’s soccer championship counted for, but this may also be playing a role in his higher salary for 2026.
 
cowpokeguy said:
This is interesting:
Athletic Director - $851,412
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yep, that's what it is now. Go to intercollegiate athletics directors office:


$851,412 for absolute abysmal programs. No wonder they took the $6 million out of the budget. Why is he making that much money? Who is signing off on this? They should be fired immediately.

At this point fans and cowboy joe club members should stop sending money in, stop attending games as a protest. Just to let UW know they don't support it.

Makes total sense the legislature would deny a funding request. I feel for the business council and Wyoming Public Radio. But UW asking for more money with this type of salary for these type of results JAC should tell him no. Somebody needs to.
 
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rocket city poke said:
yep, that's what it is now. Go to intercollegiate athletics directors office:


$851,412 for absolute abysmal programs. No wonder they took the $6 million out of the budget. Why is he making that much money? Who is signing off on this? They should be fired immediately.

At this point fans and cowboy joe club members should stop sending money in, stop attending games as a protest. Just to let UW know they don't support it.

Makes total sense the legislature would deny a funding request. I feel for the business council and Wyoming Public Radio. But UW asking for more money with this type of salary for these type of results JAC should tell him no. Somebody needs to.
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I would like to know their why behind denying some funding. Maybe they don't like the president and Burman so they are going to turn the screws on BoT to force their hands.

852k is so wild to me. The 300k should have gone to funding assistant coaches increases in other sports
 
For that price here's what we get. I saw this on X.com (credit to WyoTailgater)
In the last 50 years, the lowest combined win total over an academic year for football and men's and women's basketball is 26. We are currently at 19 for 2025-2026. Legitimately threatening the lowest point in Wyoming Athletics history.

Guys, things are bad, really really bad. Despite everything, there's no justification to be at the lowest point in Wyoming athletics history. None.
 
cowpokeguy said:
For that price here's what we get. I saw this on X.com (credit to WyoTailgater)
In the last 50 years, the lowest combined win total over an academic year for football and men's and women's basketball is 26. We are currently at 19 for 2025-2026. Legitimately threatening the lowest point in Wyoming Athletics history.

Guys, things are bad, really really bad. Despite everything, there's no justification to be at the lowest point in Wyoming athletics history. None.
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It is bad....and your comment made me think about this a bit differently.

You mentioned "the lowest point in Wyoming athletics history" and how there is no justification for it to be right now. That lowest point in Wyoming athletics history for the last 50 years is somewhere in there and at what point is it "justifiable". Actually, "justifiable" is the wrong way to look at it....let's change that to "When would you expect the lowest point in Wyoming athletics history to have occured in the last 50 years?".

I think it might be right now. All the non-athletic factors that look to be upstream of collegiate athletic success or even overall collegiate health seem really stacked against us right now. These are factors that are harder for schools at the margin to come through and Wyoming is definitely a marginal school.

I know this question will be impossible for some folks to even consider because it smacks of making "excuses". Some discussions make people uncomfortable I guess.
 
307bball said:
It is bad....and your comment made me think about this a bit differently.

You mentioned "the lowest point in Wyoming athletics history" and how there is no justification for it to be right now. That lowest point in Wyoming athletics history for the last 50 years is somewhere in there and at what point is it "justifiable". Actually, "justifiable" is the wrong way to look at it....let's change that to "When would you expect the lowest point in Wyoming athletics history to have occured in the last 50 years?".

I think it might be right now. All the non-athletic factors that look to be upstream of collegiate athletic success or even overall collegiate health seem really stacked against us right now. These are factors that are harder for schools at the margin to come through and Wyoming is definitely a marginal school.

I know this question will be impossible for some folks to even consider because it smacks of making "excuses". Some discussions make people uncomfortable I guess.
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I take your point that there may be no time like the present to be at the lowest point. I guess for me if you look over the past 50 years of decisions being made, are there comparable peers that have done different things and now are higher up on the pecking order than Wyoming? Is this all a result of resources and being in a remote town? I don't think so. Next year we're going to be in a football conference with Air Force and UNLV as the supposed marquee teams. It's not that we're losing more than ever, we're losing more than ever against lower and lower dredges of the college athletics world.
 
cowpokeguy said:
I take your point that there may be no time like the present to be at the lowest point. I guess for me if you look over the past 50 years of decisions being made, are there comparable peers that have done different things and now are higher up on the pecking order than Wyoming? Is this all a result of resources and being in a remote town? I don't think so. Next year we're going to be in a football conference with Air Force and UNLV as the supposed marquee teams. It's not that we're losing more than ever, we're losing more than ever against lower and lower dredges of the college athletics world.
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Agreed...."lowest point" is more than just comparing numbers of losses. It's nuanced and subject to interpretation.

50 years ago was 1975. If we take that as the starting point for the athletic department, I think the high point era would have been in/around '87-'96 or so. Since that time it feels like it has been a steady decline. there have been a lot of confounding factors during the post '96 era that have turned out to be very derogatory to UW athletics and UW as a whole (hindsight is always 20/20). I continue to see the non bowl invite '96 Wyoming football season as the canary in the coal mine. Everybody that paid attention to college football acknowledged that Wyoming had a great team....but that wasn't enough for the system. The system demanded that post-season matchups be more marketable and Wyoming was deemed not marketable.

People have opined that the quality of the leaders at UW have declined over that time period and that is certainly definsible...but hard to prove causality. I think quality of leadership is a factor that is more symptom than cause.
 
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