Rational look at the past year of Cowboy football
Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 1:23 pm
Considering Dave Christensen was named head coach just about a year ago (Dec. 1), I thought it might be interesting to look at Wyoming football during the past calender year. Despite being named head coach on Dec. 1, his full staff, although working in various degrees on recruiting and so forth, the entire staff asn't assembled and ready for work in Laramie until Jan. 3, resulting in an extremely short recruiting season. DC did agree to honor all offers made by Coach Glenn.
During 2009, the Cowboys played what has been reported as the 10th toughest schedule in the NATION and according to The Mountain was one of only eight teams nationwide to play two Top Five teams this year. This year's Texas game was originally scheduled against New Mexico State, who backed out resulting in the TExas game. If NMSU would have remained on the schedule, this year's schedule would have been similar to last year's 4-8 schedule. Had NMSU remained on the schedule the Cowboys would likely be at 6-5 at this point, with a shot at 7-5. This with players mainly recruited to run a Power I type of offense instead of the Spread.
The Cowboys' two worst losses Colorado (24-0) and BYU (52-0) are definite negatives. However, the CU game was the first game where Austyn Carta-Samuels saw a majority of the playing time at QB. At that point ACS was two games removed from his last high school game. I don't care who you are or how bad your D-I oppenent is, the game had to appear to be 90 mph faster than anything he'd ever seen before as a player. The BYU game was, I think, a perfect storm of BYU having two weeks to prepare, and the Cowboys coming off an emotional game against Utah. In spite of that, the Cowboys were not adequatly prepared and that's on DC.
During 2009, the Cowboys played what has been reported as the 10th toughest schedule in the NATION and according to The Mountain was one of only eight teams nationwide to play two Top Five teams this year. This year's Texas game was originally scheduled against New Mexico State, who backed out resulting in the TExas game. If NMSU would have remained on the schedule, this year's schedule would have been similar to last year's 4-8 schedule. Had NMSU remained on the schedule the Cowboys would likely be at 6-5 at this point, with a shot at 7-5. This with players mainly recruited to run a Power I type of offense instead of the Spread.
The Cowboys' two worst losses Colorado (24-0) and BYU (52-0) are definite negatives. However, the CU game was the first game where Austyn Carta-Samuels saw a majority of the playing time at QB. At that point ACS was two games removed from his last high school game. I don't care who you are or how bad your D-I oppenent is, the game had to appear to be 90 mph faster than anything he'd ever seen before as a player. The BYU game was, I think, a perfect storm of BYU having two weeks to prepare, and the Cowboys coming off an emotional game against Utah. In spite of that, the Cowboys were not adequatly prepared and that's on DC.
and if a basketball coach loses 2 games, we fire him on the spot........that means we should have had 7 or so head coaches last year. Come on Burman!!!! Pull your head out.