I will give Sawvel a chance - I actually think that he can win and do well. The fact that he was able to hold current players on the roster and recruit solid freshmen appears to show he is a players coach.
Linder is a lost cause to me. Absent a huge leap next year, with a clear showing that his incoming recruits can pan out AND STAY - I think he is cooked. A repeat of this year or - worse - a repeat of 2022-2023...you risk a lot by keeping him.
Now we are seeing a decline in the women's program under Ezell. Her rotations make no sense. Her propensity to pull a hot shooter is mind boggling. She is not even passable as an in-game coach and manager.
Women's volleyball is meh. Soccer was meh. Golf? Wresting has one guy by all accounts.
The weight of NIL and the portal have irreversibly shifted Wyoming's fortunes - and in a direction none of us like. Football is one thing - the BIG and SEC have salted that ground. But the other sports - c'mon. We are circling the toilet almost across the board. CJC is a joke. The collective has not gained any traction that I can see. The Admin has hamstrung it with a very conservative set of sideboards - but even without them, I can't ever see the people of the state embracing donations to pay players. It is antithetical to how most of us - myself included - see college athetics. We are about to start another fight with reseating in the War - when feelings are still strained over the AA debacle (the only good news is that no one is clamoring for those seats anymore). Meanwhile, UW is under attack (right or wrong) in the legislature and enrollment is floundering. Well done Admin. Well done Trustees.
Linder is a lost cause to me. Absent a huge leap next year, with a clear showing that his incoming recruits can pan out AND STAY - I think he is cooked. A repeat of this year or - worse - a repeat of 2022-2023...you risk a lot by keeping him.
Now we are seeing a decline in the women's program under Ezell. Her rotations make no sense. Her propensity to pull a hot shooter is mind boggling. She is not even passable as an in-game coach and manager.
Women's volleyball is meh. Soccer was meh. Golf? Wresting has one guy by all accounts.
The weight of NIL and the portal have irreversibly shifted Wyoming's fortunes - and in a direction none of us like. Football is one thing - the BIG and SEC have salted that ground. But the other sports - c'mon. We are circling the toilet almost across the board. CJC is a joke. The collective has not gained any traction that I can see. The Admin has hamstrung it with a very conservative set of sideboards - but even without them, I can't ever see the people of the state embracing donations to pay players. It is antithetical to how most of us - myself included - see college athetics. We are about to start another fight with reseating in the War - when feelings are still strained over the AA debacle (the only good news is that no one is clamoring for those seats anymore). Meanwhile, UW is under attack (right or wrong) in the legislature and enrollment is floundering. Well done Admin. Well done Trustees.