Vote for Burman's worst decision (or lack of)!!

[McPeachy]

There are so many choices to put in this poll, unfortunately WyoNation only allows for 10 responses, or the list would likely grow to 25 or more. Sorry if I missed any of the most important ones!

 

[TheRealUW]

For me, it’s either the Schroyer debacle or the Sawvel hire. I ended up voting for Schroyer, but if Sawvel has another crap year and they keep him around for another year, I would change my vote.

Schroyer actually had a lower winning percentage than Allen Edwards did. Pretty unbelievable given how bad Edwards was.

 

[Vapoke]

What is the CJC staff in tact? Did I miss something with that?

 

[McPeachy]

What is the CJC staff in tact? Did I miss something with that?

No, not really...just that he hired Welniak to replace Rebholz and kept the entire (pretty much) inept staff in place...some of which have been doing the same lack of enthusiastic or impactful work for more than 15 years!

 

[PorkerPoke]

For me, it’s either the Schroyer debacle or the Sawvel hire. I ended up voting for Schroyer, but if Sawvel has another crap year and they keep him around for another year, I would change my vote.

Schroyer actually had a lower winning percentage than Allen Edwards did. Pretty unbelievable given how bad Edwards was.

The basketball hiring (Schroyer, Shyatt, Edwards) until Linder. Linder was a good hire until the NIL deal and his dealings with the California recruiting. Sorry to the Shyatt fans but he was a 46% conference winner. Those are the games that energize the fan base not the Peru State and Johnson Wales games to get to 20 wins.

 

[ZapPoke]

Voting for just one of these is difficult. Maybe an option for “all of the above”

 

[Wyolie Coyote]

For me it was easily the Schroyer hire. It was the first of many bad decisions which snowballed into finding ourselves at the bottom of the conference in almost every category. I was done with the guy after the Schroyer debacle as it was obvious how clueless he was. And after 20 years I can still say the same about Burman, clueless. Some people grow into their job, but not him.

 

[LanderPoke]

Sooooo many choices.

How about letting us get left behind by all our former MWC peer institutions? But I guess that is a culmination of the above

 

[OrediggerPoke]

My vote is caveated. Hiring Sawvel and giving him a fully guaranteed contract with no prior head coaching experience and no known suitors was the worst.

Promoting Sawvel to head coach was at least a defensible decision at the time. But it should have been a prove it contract. Hamstringing the football program with the contract that was given to him was lunacy.

But overall, on Burman’s watch, Wyoming is headed to an absolute irrelevancy in an abomination of a conference.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

Also - how about honorable mention to Burman saying he would never schedule BYU again and then doing the opposite?

 

[Bear Claw]

My vote would be for all the above. I voted for the Sawful decision. Mainly, because it’s still fresh and hurting. Not looking forward to watching another year of ineptitude while Burman and Sawful rake in big time cash.

 

[rocket city poke]

You would think with the money these people are making that when those salaries get released to the public he would take a look at what is going to be listed for all the positions especially his own, the head football coach and the head basketball coach. They are all making so much money that it needs to be right when it gets released. So when it came out that he hadn't looked at the financial information that indicated he was making $850k a year . . . it showed a certain amount of incompetence. Those numbers need to be right and as the head of department you need to be reviewing them BEFORE they get released to the public. Coming out after they are public and saying, "it's a misprint" is my personal favorite.

 

[Douglaspoke]

So many above is a recap for his dismissal--others that could be added. The foray into NIL was a complete disaster plus others--Allowing the Pokes to become irrelevant and nothing more than a fill in for this watered down MWC.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

You would think with the money these people are making that when those salaries get released to the public he would take a look at what is going to be listed for all the positions especially his own, the head football coach and the head basketball coach. They are all making so much money that it needs to be right when it gets released. So when it came out that he hadn't looked at the financial information that indicated he was making $850k a year . . . it showed a certain amount of incompetence. Those numbers need to be right and as the head of department you need to be reviewing them BEFORE they get released to the public. Coming out after they are public and saying, "it's a misprint" is my personal favorite.

I believe that $850K number might be accurate. From various internet information, sounded like that included some deferred compensation. I.e earning the money this year for work performed this year but being paid later for tax purposes. Playing dumb and saying that’s not what my W2 shows for income this year makes it worse (if that is indeed the case). Regardless, his pay and his contract done in secret is absurd.

 

[rocket city poke]

I believe that $850K number might be accurate. From various internet information, sounded like that included some deferred compensation. I.e earning the money this year for work performed this year but being paid later for tax purposes. Playing dumb and saying that’s not what my W2 shows for income this year makes it worse (if that is indeed the case). Regardless, his pay and his contract done in secret is absurd.

If that is the case then it only makes him look even more clueless. Most people in the "real world" are making $75k for a good salary, to be making $850k and not really even know it as the department head? Basically saying "I'm making so much money and we can't even really keep track of it" to the fan base.

It's comical watching the "rich kid" trying to be AD for this long.