The ewes have some expectations for their football coach - Norvell fired

[ragtimejoe1]

I guess I would be greatly surprised if University athletes are not being primarily directly compensated by the Universities themselves at some point in the near to medium future.

Many have already committed to revenue share which is payments to players from universities

 

[Bosler]

If Wyoming wants to compete at a high level, we'll have to arrange payments to players. If we can't or don't want to, that's fine, we just have to be realistic about who we'll be able to compete with.

By the way, assuming the desire to be more competitive and willingness and ability to pay, the real question is whether it's smarter to direct what money we have to men's and women's basketball rather than to football. It's a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to gather 5-6 good players than it is to acquire 25-30.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

If Wyoming wants to compete at a high level, we'll have to arrange payments to players. If we can't or don't want to, that's fine, we just have to be realistic about who we'll be able to compete with.

By the way, assuming the desire to be more competitive and willingness and ability to pay, the real question is whether it's smarter to direct what money we have to men's and women's basketball rather than to football. It's a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to gather 5-6 good players than it is to acquire 25-30.

I don’t think it is. A lot of schools took this line of thinking and all it created was more pay for basketball players. Basketball NIL deals are typically larger than football NIL deals. In fact, BYU is paying a single basketball player $7 million just for this season.

What’s been created is a system that is paying players a lot more money than schools are generating in net revenue. It will fail at the majority of schools that don’t have deep pocket donors. In the private world, that type of reckless spending usually leads to something called Chapter 11 or Chapter 7.