Take WI, wins against Illinois st, nmsu, Northwestern, Purdue, Maryland, NE, and OK State in guaranteed rate bowl or ok state with wins against cmu, AZ state, ark pb, Baylor, Tech, TX, and Iowa State (loss to WI in bowl), compared with wins against tulsa, northern Co, af, NM, usu, HI, csu, and loss to Ohio in az bowl.307bball wrote: ↑Mon Jun 26, 2023 2:21 pm
I'll try to be as specific as possible. I'm asking if you would feel differently going .500 over 7 years in the MWC (as Bohl has done)....vs going .500 in a significantly stronger or weaker conference. In all cases....Wyoming would be a member of that conference. In all of those cases there are no conference championships and only middling bowl appearances (relative to whatever bowl games that conference would have). I don't really see a difference there. I know plenty of people who root for perennial .500 teams from big time conferences and also from the ranks of the FCS....none of them try and downgrade a wining season by pointing out that the "strength of the conference" is down and none of them feel any better during a losing stretch by pointing out that "oh..the conference is just too tough right now". Also...why would expectations be different depending on the conference we were in?....The goal is to win your conference....regardless....I don't think any SEC schools finish in the bottom half and go around congratulating each other for being in the best conference.
I think I see a situation here where maybe you are trying to get a sense of like..."greatest Wyoming team ever"....or "greatest Wyoming Coach ever". In that case then all your focus on how strong the opponents are makes more sense.
Umm, yeah. I'd feel better about the former as well as be more excited for the home slate of games. I'm not sure why that's surprising to you.