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Had 17 turnovers today that resulted in 19 points for AFA. I liked their education day for a conference game and Clune was loud.

Game goes to OT and Wyoming has the same amount of turnovers in the frame as points....2.....check notes again...Wyoming has scored a total of 3 points in two OT games this year
 
OrediggerPoke said:
I guess this deserves an update. The women lost to Air Force in the 1st round and end the season 10-20.
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But, but, but Heather is a phenomenal coach, that makes phenomenal decisions, and recruits phenomenal players. LMAO. Talk about a poor Burman hire, she is the poster child for his hiring processes...take the easiest route, it takes less effort.
 
McPeachy said:
But, but, but Heather is a phenomenal coach, that makes phenomenal decisions, and recruits phenomenal players. LMAO. Talk about a poor Burman hire, she is the poster child for his hiring processes...take the easiest route, it takes less effort.
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Not just hiring but giving extensions that are very favorable to coaches without much outside interest. I hope she turns it around but next year is looking potentially worse with the losses. I doubt there is much care within the athletics department for the women’s program (or so it seems to me on the outside). I don’t see a lot of current hope other than the fact that the new conference makeup looks to be extremely poor for women’s basketball.

That said - the internal volleyball Kaylee (Koetter) Prigge is looking like a gem. So the easy internal route hire pays off about 20% of the time I guess.

Just thinking of some of the other easy route hires makes my head spin: Edwards, Sawvel
 
McPeachy said:
But, but, but Heather is a phenomenal coach, that makes phenomenal decisions, and recruits phenomenal players. LMAO. Talk about a poor Burman hire, she is the poster child for his hiring processes...take the easiest route, it takes less effort.
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100%. It was the laziest, most pathetic hire yet!
 
OrediggerPoke said:
Not just hiring but giving extensions that are very favorable to coaches without much outside interest. I hope she turns it around but next year is looking potentially worse with the losses. I doubt there is much care within the athletics department for the women’s program (or so it seems to me on the outside). I don’t see a lot of current hope other than the fact that the new conference makeup looks to be extremely poor for women’s basketball.

That said - the internal volleyball Kaylee (Koetter) Prigge is looking like a gem. So the easy internal route hire pays off about 20% of the time I guess.

Just thinking of some of the other easy route hires makes my head spin: Edwards, Sawvel
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I would tend to agree with you on Prigge, but look what happened previously that ended up in her hiring. There was some shady shit go on in that program the last 15 years.
 
OrediggerPoke said:
Not just hiring but giving extensions that are very favorable to coaches without much outside interest. I hope she turns it around but next year is looking potentially worse with the losses. I doubt there is much care within the athletics department for the women’s program (or so it seems to me on the outside). I don’t see a lot of current hope other than the fact that the new conference makeup looks to be extremely poor for women’s basketball.

That said - the internal volleyball Kaylee (Koetter) Prigge is looking like a gem. So the easy internal route hire pays off about 20% of the time I guess.

Just thinking of some of the other easy route hires makes my head spin: Edwards, Sawvel
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I will never understand the Edwards and Sawvel hires.

While both Shyatt and Bohl had substantially improved their programs compared to what they inherited, it wasn't exactly like we were consistently dominant in either program at the time they retired. I think both Shyatt and Bohl were pretty damn good coaches (I know some disagree with me on this point), but they had not built the program to a level where we could just plug in an assistant and think we were going to continue the upward trajectory automatically. We were not at a Boise State or NDSU level of sustained success...not even close.

But that seems to be exactly what Burman was expecting in both situations. Two pretty big wasted opportunities if you ask me.
 
The WYO AD Brain Trust doesn't have much confidence in its ability to attract outside coaching candidates to the Cowboy programs. So the default is internal promotions. The AD himself is lazy and not resourceful. Having said that, I think a downturn in the WBB program this year was coming regardless.

Heather deserves another year because she's not a bad coach, but there are great small college WBB coaches nearby. Check out the HCs at Colorado Mesa and Colorado-Colorado Springs. I'm sure that Burman would have no clue as to what I'm talking about. He's stealing your money.

Not rocket science, but everything at WYO lately seems to be so F'IN DIFFICULT.
 
FTR said:
This place should be called Whiningnation.com. The home of mediocre people whining about everyone else. :)
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I don't know about that. What I do know, is that I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting UW, and UW athletics. And you know what I have gotten for that? A big fat steel toe boot kick in the nuts.

So as a fan, booster, etc., I think we are all entitled to challenge things (what you call whining). If we stop challenging things, and voicing our displeasures, certainly you know what will happen. We will remain mediocre at very best. That isn't good enough for me. You?

God forbid we want our university and athletics teams to be the best. Which we haven't been, and it isn't even close.
 
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