Reading the AD's interview, looks like we're seeking "stability" instead of making the MWC as competitive as possible. We just now added another freeloader program to a conference of freeloaders. Another mouth to feed. Looking forward to UTEP winning the MWC in football in............or basketball in.......
We came within a whisker of being blown up entirely, we weathered the punches....and now we want to go back to being.....stable. So we're apparently looking at Harlequin...er, Tarleton State!
I have no answers, but wouldn't it be something if Gloria Nevarez had a sit down with the MWC AD's and did something radical, like propose each school meet an annual minimum of at least $65-70 million in spending on athletics, emphasizing football, as one component of a new, rebooting strategy to make us less poachable? Or propose they commit at least $20M to NIL?
That would be met with stone silence and likely a motion to have her fired, because the remaining schools in the room have combined for one MWC football ring in the past 10 years, and barely that in basketball, so shut up.
It seems nobody is intent on building the MWC and putting muscle on it--instead let's just hang on to it. Keeping things stable. A sure recipe for the vultures to return if there's anything left on the bone.
Burman said, "We are a unique entity, but we bring great value to the Mountain West Conference or any other conference out there. But you have to look a little deeper to find the value..." Anybody have a guess as to what he's talking about?
That's the flowery, platitude, avoiding specifics b.s.'ing . of the fans that ensures a .49 percent football and .48 percent hoops program over the last 10 years. The word value has been redefined...
UTEP vice president and director of athletics Jim Senter obviously talked with him...."I know the Miners will feel right at home with the other quality athletic programs in this great conference."
More value talk.....“I’m still excited about Wyoming football... We have a very good core, and we’re recruiting very well. Jay Sawvel is doing some extremely good things with this program. I think we’re going to be fine in football,” he said, adding that basketball and other Olympic sports are also seeing promising futures.
“There’s a lot of opportunity at the University of Wyoming,” Burman said.
One day--probably two years from now--Eli Wallach and 200 other banditos in college football will ride back for another raid, but there's no more Magnificent 7 to save us. Perhaps enough people will by then finally understand how "extremely good things" is actually defined in Laramie. In the meantime, we'll resume our seat at the hind teat, make room for UTEP, and hope UNLV, AFA and Nevada can keep us fed. Or maybe Tarleton St.
