ragtimejoe1
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The csu question is answered. Their results and our investment? I'm thinking UNM creeps up. Their entire athletic department portfolio which includes budget, then we get in.Yep...if you keep moving the line down...you get from BSU to SDSU to ... to.... to....to... to..USU! I have heard so much bashing on USU in these forums .... calling them every terrible thing that can be dreamt up....so color me surprised to read your "glowing" description of their program.
I also see your not interested in answering the CSU question in good faith ... I can only assume that is because you believe, deep down, that if Wyoming and CSU swapped competitive results, Wyoming is still not getting invited. Burman has seen a lot of the metrics get better under his tenure except for the one that mattered....wins. Now...you may be changing your tune and talking about how the AD was not invested in properly...poor Burman..if only he had the proper commitment. I call BS on that. He didn't have to hang on to bad coaches so long and some of his hires were perplexing even before he hung on to them too long.
I'm not confused as to why Wyoming did not get invited....we are a train wreck of the first order. If I'm sitting in an office at BSU or Oregon State I want nothing to do with Wyoming.
The difference between our football and their football is relatively miniscule. Marketing depend on championships and t25 status which drives national interest. When you look at csu and WYO, sure, we're better but we still don't elevate to the successful level required to generate national interest. Does usu have a national following? Obvious no. However, in their ranked years, I'm sure there were games that sparked national interest. They've shown their program can do that. Us? Not since the 90s.
Like I said, when you're a bottom 3 or 4 athletic department in the MWC, it's really hard to try to start pointing fingers at a bunch of other crap when reality is we just stink. You can speculate all you want but reality is first grounded with we stink. I tend to stick with reality. The decision process likely never moved past "WYO is a bottom 3 or 4 athletic departments in terms of measurable success and investment". They stopped there and most people outside of WYO do to.