While I personally would much rather my money go to facilities than players, it is entirely clear that money attracts recruits and coaches. If everything else is equal, maybe nice dining facilities and locker rooms tip the scale. But recruits are going where they stand to make the most money plain and simple.
Isn’t it all for naught if we still suck? I believe coaching matters more than anything else , by far. We should be spending more on coaching salaries, imo. Of course that means nothing if you have an idiot like Burman hiring those coaches. And he is an idiot surrounded by idiots that accept mediocrity
I agree. Moving forward, I think it's time to shift spending away from facilities and extra staff and into NIL. But I don't regret having nice facilities now. Some of our competition won't ever catch up.
So, quality facilities=suck? Also, does coaching salaries=winning? There's the black and white thinking I was talking about.
No, it indicates we are probably mis allocating resources. And yes, I believe higher coaching salaries and recruiting budgets are correlated with more winning.
Winning attracts recruits and coaches.
Being ahead of our future competition of the UTEP’s, SJSU’s and Nevada’s of the world…is being the world’s tallest midget really something worth boasting about?
The PAC, as dumb as it was to pay the exit fees for that, is miles better than than our new garbage conference. Lack of a winning culture is the direct reason those schools are no longer our conference peers.
No doubt we're misallocating $. But the correct answer isn't 0% on facilities and 100% on coaching salaries/player recruiting.
I disagree. It's way more complicated than that. It's some mixture of $, school, geography, the coaching staff, winning, and a bunch of other stuff like where the kid's girlfriend is.
The old world of college football is dead. I hate it, but it is. So, being ahead of Nevada, UTEP, and SJSU is good. I'd like to see Tom gone now so we can walk into the new conference with a clean slate. I have no confidence he can win championships in the new league.
Winning attracts recruits and coaches.
You should take a look at Boise. From a juco to a national brand because they focused on winning before all else.
Failure again. Corporate $$$ ticket buying = shit attendance. There needs to be a portal set up to put your tickets in, if not going, and they either get given away or sold - to be used. 40 open seats around me on Saturday this past weekend - within the just a few rows. AA all over again.
It's awful. I've been repeating this on here since the year after the AA reseating. It would be extremely simple to have a portal set up to donate the tickets back so they can be distributed to the Boys and Girls Club, Laramie High School, etc.. This would be the easiest way to build the Cowboy fanbase (because I, as well as many others, became Cowboy fans by being a poor middle/high school student purchasing $5 knot hole tickets back in the day).
But it’s not black and white - tom Burman has done a good job !!!!!!!! (Sarc)
Is there a way to drop a jpg in here? It's a chart showing facilities spending for Wyoming vs Boise since 2005.
It also impacts the game. When the lower West side was full and loud, fans were able to get into the heads of the opposing team and were also able to frustrate the communication on the opponent's sideline. Pretty sure you can hear a pin drop now. Opponents must love how accommodating we are to them. We have freely given up a big home field advantage.
As far as aspirations of moving to a better conference, Boise's problem has been and continues to be academics. Their academics are like a trade school.
