BeaverPoke said:
If we are paying athletes to play look at it this way.
"Insert name here" decides to come to the University of Wyoming. He is getting paid to play football. He is a state employee just as Bohl is. This can then become an issue of how much the state governments want to pay out each year.
If we get some people in Cheyenne that want us to be a powerhouse, we all of a sudden are the New York Yankees in terms of payroll.
Oil and gas and rainy day funds.
Wyo could have kids transferring from Alabama and Texas to be Pokes.
Yes, let's spend taxpayer money so we can pay hired labor from Texas and Alabama to be Poke football players for a few years. Do you know what state we live in and the liklihood of the legislature making such a budget appropriation? Hell, I am a huge football fan but would propbably vote against that if I were in the legislature. I just got out of a two hour long meeting on a $150,000 appropriation that goes directly to current Wyoming residents/companies and the amount of argument on this relatively small appropriation probably could have went all day had they let it.
