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The 8 Million is Approved

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Lost Poke

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So, is Burman an idiot, or not? $8 Million match survived.

http://www.laramieboomerang.com/news/local_news/uw-budget-cut-by-percent/article_c103d7fe-e29a-11e5-9038-430cfe8a5fe7.html
 
Lost Poke said:
So, is Burman an idiot, or not? $8 Million match survived.

http://www.laramieboomerang.com/news/local_news/uw-budget-cut-by-percent/article_c103d7fe-e29a-11e5-9038-430cfe8a5fe7.html
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I am going with Idiot. "He" (although I put little on him either way) took a 20% cut in the grand scheme of things...and with all the athletic plan TBA's and TBD's - you know what that means.

An $80 million match wouldn't have changed my mind on this.
 
It's like you guys haven't been through a bust before. Kids are going to come to school in the Fall. They graduate in the spring. We play football in the fall and basketball in the winter. Nothing is going to change. People like to get all crazy every time money is tight but every time they find a way to pay for it. We are fine. Don't pay attention to the crazies out there and follow the first law of internets, "Don't read the comments."
 
I would assume or at least hope he was doing a ton of behind the scenes work, so therefor give him kudos for getting this done this year.

How many years is this approved? What happens next year? Same battle?

An athletic department that lives and dies by mostly state funding is not sustainable, IMO. How to solve that is the job of the AD. Winning will help, but it won't be the only thing to solve this.
 
ragtimejoe1 said:
I would assume or at least hope he was doing a ton of behind the scenes work, so therefor give him kudos for getting this done this year.

How many years is this approved? What happens next year? Same battle?

An athletic department that lives and dies by mostly state funding is not sustainable, IMO. How to solve that is the job of the AD. Winning will help, but it won't be the only thing to solve this.
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Budgets are biennial in Wyoming, so this is good for the next 2 years. Meaning we will be probably hearing all of this rhetoric again in January and February of 2018.
 
WestWYOPoke said:
ragtimejoe1 said:
I would assume or at least hope he was doing a ton of behind the scenes work, so therefor give him kudos for getting this done this year.

How many years is this approved? What happens next year? Same battle?

An athletic department that lives and dies by mostly state funding is not sustainable, IMO. How to solve that is the job of the AD. Winning will help, but it won't be the only thing to solve this.
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Budgets are biennial in Wyoming, so this is good for the next 2 years. Meaning we will be probably hearing all of this rhetoric again in January and February of 2018.
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Well, there is the "hourglass" for WYO athletics. I will guarantee there will be nothing short of a revolution in the state if the money is approved again AND if the revenue sports are failing.
 
That was my thinking when typing the previous post. One of two things needs to happen in the next two years. Either we need to start winning in football and basketball or the fossil fuel industry needs to kick back in to high gear. If we have plenty of money we won't need to worry about cuts, but as that seems bleak right now, we will probably need to start winning. Otherwise, 2018 might be a bad spring for UW athletics.
 
WestWYOPoke said:
That was my thinking when typing the previous post. One of two things needs to happen in the next two years. Either we need to start winning in football and basketball or the fossil fuel industry needs to kick back in to high gear. If we have plenty of money we won't need to worry about cuts, but as that seems bleak right now, we will probably need to start winning. Otherwise, 2018 might be a bad spring for UW athletics.
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There's a hard deadline for you (and we have TBD tommy leading the charge). Not an awesome prognosis.
 
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