Illinois- Wyoming game thread

[WyomingAgJ]

Was that pass to Wieland sh#t[#] or did he just drop it? Totally killed drive

A little behind him, but definitely his fault he just dropped it

[laxwyo]

Was hoping bohl would go for 4th and 1 at the 50. I was only kidding myself. Conservative Bohl will always opt for the 25 yard punt in that situation

Wouldn’t want to try and win game. Better to lose by 21 than 35

[LanderPoke]

Reece Monaco has had an equally bad first half as the Cowboys. Missing Dave Walsh a lot already.

Yeah he sucks, honestly

[LanderPoke]

Drag his carcass off the field geez

[laxwyo]

Those were the two worst calls I’ve ever seen.

[WYO1016]

Current mood:

https://giphy.com/gifs/1j8P1JhBOiq7ZXtkqr

[WyomingAgJ]

Sure glad we didn't go for it midfield. Wouldn't of wanted the chance at getting some momentum. Now Illinois has firmly shut the door

[laxwyo]

I just can’t get over how poop a call that was on Cam Stone. The pig crying about flags sure paid off.

[laxwyo]

Sweet sneak.

[bladerunnr]

Reece Monaco has had an equally bad first half as the Cowboys. Missing Dave Walsh a lot already.

Yeah he sucks, honestly

Sorry to have to agree with you. Not only does he have to reverse his call frequently, he's way too dramatic.

[307bball]

JFC. Can we try throwing the ball on 3rd down from time to time?!

Why? Then everyone in the country wouldn’t be able
to predict what we’re doing!

won't matter one bit.

[WYO1016]

Even BetMGM is dragging our poop offense

[LanderPoke]

0/10 on third down. Wow. Bohl needs to hit the road. Tired of this garbage he calls “offense”

[WyomingAgJ]

These last 2 or so drives sum up my frustration with Bohls game plans.

We get a fg to start the 2nd half and a defensive stop. We have a tiny bit of momentum and move the ball to midfield on a drive that if we actually were to score in would bring the game back to a 1 score game. 4th and 1 or 1 and a half at the 50 and conservative bohl punts it.

Illinois drives field scores and makes it a 3 score game erasing any tiny bit of momentum we had and effectively winning the game.

Only at this point down 3 scores and no momentum and game likely out of reach, we call a pass on the first play of the drive for the first time all game. It's an 8 yard catch that instead becomes a first down on Illinois penalty. The drive stalls slightly later at the 45 yard line in worse field position then the drive before and now bohl goes for it.

He waits till down 3 scores with no momentum and game out of hand to ever actually have a slightly more aggressive play calling (a pass to open a drive and a 4th down attempt). We never have any agressive/surprising/interesting play calling when the game is still in question, only once it is out of reach.

I get it, player execution..., Run run run to set up the pass, blah blah blah. But the simple fact remains bohl is never anything but conservative every game until it is out of hand and doesn't matter anymore

[Cornpoke]

BRU-tal... This is gonna be a long season

[WYO1016]

BRU-tal... This is gonna be a long season

You can say that again. Just awful.

[307bball]

These last 2 or so drives sum up my frustration with Bohls game plans.

We get a fg to start the 2nd half and a defensive stop. We have a tiny bit of momentum and move the ball to midfield on a drive that if we actually were to score in would bring the game back to a 1 score game. 4th and 1 or 1 and a half at the 50 and conservative bohl punts it.

Illinois drives field scores and makes it a 3 score game erasing any tiny bit of momentum we had and effectively winning the game.

Only at this point down 3 scores and no momentum and game likely out of reach, we call a pass on the first play of the drive for the first time all game. It's an 8 yard catch that instead becomes a first down on Illinois penalty. The drive stalls slightly later at the 45 yard line in worse field position then the drive before and now bohl goes for it.

He waits till down 3 scores with no momentum and game out of hand to ever actually have a slightly more aggressive play calling (a pass to open a drive and a 4th down attempt). We never have any agressive/surprising/interesting play calling when the game is still in question, only once it is out of reach.

I get it, player execution..., Run run run to set up the pass, blah blah blah. But the simple fact remains bohl is never anything but conservative every game until it is out of hand and doesn't matter anymore

I mean...I agree....but it's really easy to say that "if he goes for it they make it a one score game" ... it's more likely that they don't make it and Illinois scores with a short field and then we are killing him for going for it. What is going on is way deeper than scheme / decision making / play calling. We have always been at a disadvantage against B10 programs but I think we are starting to see it snowball. Illinois is not a powerhouse but they have better players at every position than most of the MWC. Coaching matters but when you can win every one on one matchup on the field....it doesn't matter as much.

[cowpoke pride]

.....Year after year.

Even BetMGM is dragging our sh#t[#] offense

[WyomingAgJ]

These last 2 or so drives sum up my frustration with Bohls game plans.

We get a fg to start the 2nd half and a defensive stop. We have a tiny bit of momentum and move the ball to midfield on a drive that if we actually were to score in would bring the game back to a 1 score game. 4th and 1 or 1 and a half at the 50 and conservative bohl punts it.

Illinois drives field scores and makes it a 3 score game erasing any tiny bit of momentum we had and effectively winning the game.

Only at this point down 3 scores and no momentum and game likely out of reach, we call a pass on the first play of the drive for the first time all game. It's an 8 yard catch that instead becomes a first down on Illinois penalty. The drive stalls slightly later at the 45 yard line in worse field position then the drive before and now bohl goes for it.

He waits till down 3 scores with no momentum and game out of hand to ever actually have a slightly more aggressive play calling (a pass to open a drive and a 4th down attempt). We never have any agressive/surprising/interesting play calling when the game is still in question, only once it is out of reach.

I get it, player execution..., Run run run to set up the pass, blah blah blah. But the simple fact remains bohl is never anything but conservative every game until it is out of hand and doesn't matter anymore

I mean...I agree....but it's really easy to say that "if he goes for it they make it a one score game" ... it's more likely that they don't make it and Illinois scores with a short field and then we are killing him for going for it. What is going on is way deeper than scheme / decision making / play calling. We have always been at a disadvantage against B10 programs but I think we are starting to see it snowball. Illinois is not a powerhouse but they have better players at every position than most of the MWC. Coaching matters but when you can win every one on one matchup on the field....it doesn't matter as much.

Totally agree it is likely they don't make it. Or even if we do make the 4th down we still likely don't score on the drive but at least I personally would not have blamed him for trying and failing at that point. It would have showed we were playing to win. This game plan the whole game has looked like we played to lose close, which we failed at too. Christensen did that all the time too, calling games to try and lose close. I hate when coaches call games to lose close.

I actually don't think Illinois looks all that great. Maybe they will turn out to be but I think they are in for a long season too in the big 10 just as we are in for a very long season. We will see over the next couple weeks how some of the rest of the mw looks but I think multiple other mw teams would have been in this game till the end or potentially won it. And as such I think we are in for multiple blowouts to other mw schools this year

[stymeman]

This in Year 9, cmon Pokes...6 friggin points...reallly.....