LARAMIE, Wyo. — It has reached the point of big picture thinking, far beyond losing to another inferior team and blowing yet another big lead and falling to 0-3 in a terrible conference without yet playing any of the best teams in said terrible conference, beyond appearing to have no answers on how to improve what is an offense that can only be described as UNLOLV.
But whether university officials have seen enough and opt to fire Dave Rice as the school's basketball coach must be more about dollars and cents than final scores.
The Mountain West, save someone running away and dropping just a few games over 18 tries, is likely a one-bid conference this season for the NCAA Tournament.