Well, I had one of our press guys from Reddit press Bohl at Media Days RE: Off. Same response, different year. Lmao.

[307bball]

I agree with your premise that it is easier to win a 9 team league.... But next season that will not be the case.

The rest was a commentary on your continued fixation on how good the conference is. Why not cheer for an SEC team? Whatever conference Wyo is realistic a part of will have us somewhere in the bottom of the top half as long as Bohl is at the helm.... If the programs you mentioned left tomorrow, our chances of a championship would increase next season but the overall damage to recruiting and reputation that the rest of the MWC teams and us would suffer would drag everybody down in the medium to long term.

There was a time that best non power conference teams were respected but that is eroding away....

Interesting. No matter how bad the competition gets, WYO will always eventually regress to middle of the league or lower?

I actually think the opposite. Once the conference regresses enough, we'll move to the top end of the league more consistently. We just need to replace the bsu types with nmsu types. Then, we can all have fun cheering on a conference championship team.

If we're lucky enough to be in a conference after this fiasco, we might get to find out.

I guess there is probably a limit to that. The way I see it.... The playing field is so uneven that is hard to when imagine what it would be like to have a college athletic landscape where winners are determined only by coaching ability and skill of the players.

At this point, Wyoming is basically the perfect MWC level team. Always hovering around .500.... But never good enough for long enough to imagine playing in a bigger conference

I would predict that as long as our investment in football roughly matches (as in not way high or way low) our conference mates, a coach like Bohl will be in the running but not dominant. If we move down or the conference we are in gets drastically worse (but somehow we don't get worse) really fast... There is a high probability that we would dominate for a bit. But unless we would be able to maintain an investment advantage, the competitive advantage would revert. College football is pay to win....

 

[ragtimejoe1]

But unless we would be able to maintain an investment advantage, the competitive advantage would revert. College football is pay to win....

Hmm, very interesting. So facilities and resources relative to conference peers now matters?

 

[307bball]

But unless we would be able to maintain an investment advantage, the competitive advantage would revert. College football is pay to win....

Hmm, very interesting. So facilities and resources relative to conference peers now matters?

I can't imagine you would be surprised by this...It has always mattered.....though athletic facilities and university resources do not capture what I'm talking about when I am using the term investment. Wyoming actually sort of is able to hang with the MWC in sheer $$ invested...but in terms of what is possible from an "soft" investment standpoint (how the media views us, what recruits think us Wyoming, enrollment, community engagement, and other things that I'm sure smarter people than me can enumerate) we seem to be very limited. That is why CSU, who by any metric of athletic success is at our level or (IMO) slightly below, is even being mentioned in these conference realignment discussions. We are the FBS version of Montana, Montana State, and programs like that....not in terms of success...but in terms of market size, national appeal, etc.