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Polasek Hiring

I'm not sure what resources it would cost UW, but it is odd that the interview reportedly took place in a UW facility.

Typically, these sorts of interviews are set up at a private location like a hotel. It is also odd that Bohl was there given that he was not officially affiliated with either program at that time.
 
Bosler said:
What resources?
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University of Wyoming buildings/facilities. Facilities built with public dollars. Typical ethical rules would indicate that it’s not ok to use those for non-university purposes (there are rules that allow entities to rent certain facilities on campus but doubtful that is what occurred based on Cody’s reporting). It would especially seem inappropriate to use those facilities so a competitor can come in and directly compete and hire away your employees.

It’s not the maybe $10 of increase in electric and utility costs we are talking about. These are standard ethical norms for the use of facilities.
 
OrediggerPoke said:
University of Wyoming buildings/facilities. Facilities built with public dollars. Typical ethical rules would indicate that it’s not ok to use those for non-university purposes (there are rules that allow entities to rent certain facilities on campus but doubtful that is what occurred based on Cody’s reporting). It would especially seem inappropriate to use those facilities so a competitor can come in and directly compete and hire away your employees.

It’s not the maybe $10 of increase in electric and utility costs we are talking about. These are standard ethical norms for the use of facilities.
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It once again shows the total lack of control that our AD has over the department. How on earth would any intelligent AD allow Bohl to operate like this. Reason 637 to fire Burman.
 

UW Regulation 6-4
I. POLICY: It is the policy of the University of Wyoming to permit the use of University buildings and grounds and equipment by internal and external users, as defined within this policy, if such use is consistent with the University's primary purposes, i.e. instruction, research and public service. The University retains the right to determine which activities are consistent with its primary purposes.

Is a competing university hiring away your employees "consistent with the University's primary purposes" of instruction, research and public service? I would say no but the athletic department may believe differently.
 
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OrediggerPoke said:
That would not appear to me to be an appropriate use of Wyoming resources if true as reported by Cody Tucker.
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Termination offense number 429. The gift that keeps on giving, it is almost like Burman hates Wyoming Athletics, and wants to tank the whole thing even further before his exit in 272 days.
 
This reporting really has me re-thinking Bohl's legacy here at Wyoming. Bohl 'retires', works with the AD to put Sawvel in-place which facilitates his son's promotion/pay increase and then (according to Cody's reporting) immediately works with a separate University (on Wyoming's campus no less) to hire away Wyoming's offensive coordinator. And that Bohl was allegedly given free reign to do these things should really put a microscope on the athletic department's leadership, their oversight and whether they are even acting in the University's interest. Combined with the CSU home game deal, Sawvel contract and other deals, this is a lot more than smoke from my perspective but will likely (and has been) presumably swept under the rug.
 
OrediggerPoke said:
This reporting really has me re-thinking Bohl's legacy here at Wyoming. Bohl 'retires', works with the AD to put Sawvel in-place which facilitates his son's promotion/pay increase and then (according to Cody's reporting) immediately works with a separate University (on Wyoming's campus no less) to hire away Wyoming's offensive coordinator. And that Bohl was allegedly given free reign to do these things should really put a microscope on the athletic department's leadership, their oversight and whether they are even acting in the University's interest. Combined with the CSU home game deal, Sawvel contract and other deals, this is a lot more than smoke from my perspective but will likely (and has been) presumably swept under the rug.
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If any journalists had any balls, there might be a intriguing article to be written about all of this.
 
Wyolie Coyote said:
If any journalists had any balls, there might be a intriguing article to be written about all of this.
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Agree fully. Cody wrote the article as some feel good story of the Wyo/NDSU 'rivalry' and Polasek landing his 'dream job'. But he is smart and I would think he had to have known these facts he was reporting would raise real red flags in regards to the Wyoming program and athletic department, right?
 
OrediggerPoke said:
This reporting really has me re-thinking Bohl's legacy here at Wyoming. Bohl 'retires', works with the AD to put Sawvel in-place which facilitates his son's promotion/pay increase and then (according to Cody's reporting) immediately works with a separate University (on Wyoming's campus no less) to hire away Wyoming's offensive coordinator. And that Bohl was allegedly given free rein to do these things should really put a microscope on the athletic department's leadership, their oversight and whether they are even acting in the University's interest. Combined with the CSU home game deal, Sawvel contract and other deals, this is a lot more than smoke from my perspective but will likely (and has been) presumably swept under the rug.
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Bingo. You said what wanted to say but wasn’t able to do it as you beautifully did.
 
Evidently, there’s been some shady shit going down in the UW Athletics Program. Who would have guessed? Burman needs a one way ticket to get the hell out of here.
 
OrediggerPoke said:
This reporting really has me re-thinking Bohl's legacy here at Wyoming. Bohl 'retires', works with the AD to put Sawvel in-place which facilitates his son's promotion/pay increase and then (according to Cody's reporting) immediately works with a separate University (on Wyoming's campus no less) to hire away Wyoming's offensive coordinator. And that Bohl was allegedly given free rein to do these things should really put a microscope on the athletic department's leadership, their oversight and whether they are even acting in the University's interest. Combined with the CSU home game deal, Sawvel contract and other deals, this is a lot more than smoke from my perspective but will likely (and has been) presumably swept under the rug.
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Burman rehires Larry Shyatt who sued Wyoming’s ass. Wyoming was sucking under Schroyer and good old Larry was hired to finish his college coaching career. He had some ok years with Nance including the MWC tournament win before he decided he had enough. All the older experienced assistants decided they also had enough and then all of a sudden we find his son Jeremy stayed continuously employed. The guy who was hired to be the HC had came to Wyoming as an assistant because Jeremy said - “hey dad, we need to get this friend of mine”. Edwards was then hired by Burman as the HC and Jeremy got a promotion to assistant head coach. How nice! Together Edwards and Jeremy Shyatt inherited a good roster, took 2 years to win the CBI against weak competition with a senior dominant roster and then pile drived the program into the ground with a 6-30 conference run after the Larry Shyatt recruits ran out of eligibility. They almost made a 5-37 in conference Moe Radovich look better. If any of you are too young to know of Moe, I can attest I’ve lived through the worst 2 Wyoming Cowboys programs. It was more awful than Sawful and that’s already bad enough.

Wyoming athletics has produced a ton of 💩 results in my lifetime and it’s hard to retain a continual Cowboy Fever when the tough times run concurrently more than any sniff of success.

I would rather have clearly sought candidates without a son being involved. I admit if the overall record was flipped and Sawful was 19-9 we would still be in agreement it was probably influenced by certain individuals but happy at the same time we had been winning 7-8 games each year and starting 3-1 this year.
 
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