What to do with the $50K

[uwaluminidaho]

How about using the $50k to hire some re-evaluation of the program? Do what the rest of the business world does whenever things are going to hell in a hand basket, like the ‘business’ of UW football. They hire a consultant to come in and tell them how they are messed up. There is madness and insanity going on with the UW football program. In short, it’s messed up.
Is it the coach? The OC and/or the DC? The schemes on offense and defense? Lack of quality athletes? Lack of skilled position players? Are theirs bigger, faster, stronger, and smarter than ours? If we are not D1 team, why? Is it everything? Clean house?
We have 4 games left. For those 4 or so weeks, hire Gene Huey, Gary Barnett or a Joe Tiller (I am sure there are consulting firms already in place in the profession that are primed and capable to carry out such an assignment. May be more than $50 K, so be it.) or someone of similar qualifications as a special assistant(s) to the AD to come in and ‘observe only’ the practices, the coaches, the meetings, all the game prep, evaluate some of the key people players and personnel via film and live observations, and be in the coaches booth and wired in at game time. If the current staff doesn’t already know it, these evaluation results will in part determine if they will be here next year or not.
At the end of the season prepare a report to the UW Pres and AD about the state of the program. Do we have the right staff for one? Can UW recruit the right horses for the offensive and defensive schemes? Is the recruiting in the right geographical locales? Can we compete in the new structured MW as it will be next year and after?
Lastly, what is their perception about our future in D1 football? Do we petition the Big Sky or Missouri Valley conferences for slots before they are all taken up? So many questions need to be asked first of all, then answered subjectively without all this tension that is now present. It is a business boys, now run it like one.
Go Pokes, down a different road.

[OrediggerPoke]

Don't make Wyoming look petty, that 50K absolutely should be going to some veterans' charity.

As far as the rest of the post, I absolutely support the proposition to bring in Joe Tiller as soon as this season ends to help the program transition. Joe doesn't have to stay long (but hopefully thru next year). The players are in the program that fit Joe's offense. Joe has many many contacts in the coaching community and I have full faith that he could bring in an extremely quality staff.

[OrediggerPoke]

Do we petition the Big Sky or Missouri Valley conferences for slots before they are all taken up? So many questions need to be asked first of all, then answered subjectively without all this tension that is now present. It is a business boys, now run it like one.
Go Pokes, down a different road.

What???????????????????? HELL NO.

[whyoh]

Do we petition the Big Sky or Missouri Valley conferences for slots before they are all taken up? So many questions need to be asked first of all, then answered subjectively without all this tension that is now present. It is a business boys, now run it like one.
Go Pokes, down a different road.

What???????????????????? HELL NO.

hearing that fcs poop makes me want to kick a puppy



think of the puppies

[Asmodeanreborn]

Yep, FCS means I'm no longer associating with Cowboys. It'd be over and out. If the team gives up, that means I give up on them.

[whyoh]

Yep, FCS means I'm no longer associating with Cowboys. It'd be over and out. If the team gives up, that means I give up on them.

+1

[BeaverPoke]

Funny thing about UW though...We would probably be middle of the road in the Big Sky. We couldn't even WIN the bigsky this year! Cal Poly would be up on us in conference play.
If we did go down to the Big Sky, we would lose out on even more recruits, and have even less money to compete with. Sure the first 2-3 years we would maybe compete for the Big Sky conference championship, but by year 4 we would be a middle of the road Big Sky team. Hoping we can go knock off a Fresno St team every couple of years and lose 42-14 or hope we can go beat an FBS Idaho team and some how pull it off and win by 1 TD in overtime

This team has the makings of a decently competitive Big Sky program.
It sucks. We suck.
We're bad, and we should feel bad.

[BeachPoke]

Give it to the Breast cancer.....

[whyoh]

would 50 grand be enough to get sam elliot to do the voice over for next year's intro video?

[JimmyDimes]

With a healthy Brett Smith we would win the Big Sky. With Brett Smith we beat Cal Poly by 2tds. We've been close in all but 3 games....the last two might be more a product of where the season has gone vs. how we would play if the season didn't go south. A win will do wonders...so will winning out.

Go Pokes!!

[whyoh]

With a healthy Brett Smith we would win the Big Sky. With Brett Smith we beat Cal Poly by 2tds. We've been close in all but 3 games....the last two might be more a product of where the season has gone vs. how we would play if the season didn't go south. A win will do wonders...so will winning out.

Go Pokes!!

we move down and brett smith transfers along with any other FBS level talent we have.....bank on it

hell....they wouldn't even lose a year for the transfer because the NCAA wouldn't consider it their fault that the university moved

[J-Rod]

The extremes the UW fan base goes to are ridiculous.....one minute everyone is talking 10+ wins and possible BCS bowl game after an 8-5 season, the next contemplating going to the Big Sky? I'm still not sure CDC is the answer, but I know moving down to the FCS is, for one unprecedented, and two would kill off Wyoming athletics. Never gonna happen.

[laxwyo]

I'd have a Charlie Sheen type party.

[SDPokeFan]

With a healthy Brett Smith we would win the Big Sky. With Brett Smith we beat Cal Poly by 2tds. We've been close in all but 3 games....the last two might be more a product of where the season has gone vs. how we would play if the season didn't go south. A win will do wonders...so will winning out.

Go Pokes!!

we move down and brett smith transfers along with any other FBS level talent we have.....bank on it

hell....they wouldn't even lose a year for the transfer because the NCAA wouldn't consider it their fault that the university moved

What FBS talent? I would rather have a good or even dominant FCS team than the poop show FBS team we have.

[fromolwyoming]

With a healthy Brett Smith we would win the Big Sky. With Brett Smith we beat Cal Poly by 2tds. We've been close in all but 3 games....the last two might be more a product of where the season has gone vs. how we would play if the season didn't go south. A win will do wonders...so will winning out.

Go Pokes!!

we move down and brett smith transfers along with any other FBS level talent we have.....bank on it

hell....they wouldn't even lose a year for the transfer because the NCAA wouldn't consider it their fault that the university moved

What FBS talent? I would rather have a good or even dominant FCS team than the poop show FBS team we have.

You and all 5 other people who would like Wyoming to move down to FCS.

[SDPokeFan]

With a healthy Brett Smith we would win the Big Sky. With Brett Smith we beat Cal Poly by 2tds. We've been close in all but 3 games....the last two might be more a product of where the season has gone vs. how we would play if the season didn't go south. A win will do wonders...so will winning out.

Go Pokes!!

we move down and brett smith transfers along with any other FBS level talent we have.....bank on it

hell....they wouldn't even lose a year for the transfer because the NCAA wouldn't consider it their fault that the university moved

What FBS talent? I would rather have a good or even dominant FCS team than the poop show FBS team we have.

You and all 5 other people who would like Wyoming to move down to FCS.

So you would honestly rather have a 1-11 or 2-10 FBS team than a national championship FCS team? Really?

[WYO1016]

With a healthy Brett Smith we would win the Big Sky. With Brett Smith we beat Cal Poly by 2tds. We've been close in all but 3 games....the last two might be more a product of where the season has gone vs. how we would play if the season didn't go south. A win will do wonders...so will winning out.

Go Pokes!!

we move down and brett smith transfers along with any other FBS level talent we have.....bank on it

hell....they wouldn't even lose a year for the transfer because the NCAA wouldn't consider it their fault that the university moved

What FBS talent? I would rather have a good or even dominant FCS team than the poop show FBS team we have.

You and all 5 other people who would like Wyoming to move down to FCS.

So you would honestly rather have a 1-11 or 2-10 FBS team than a national championship FCS team? Really?

Yes really. Do I like how the team is doing this season? No, but I DO like the fact that we play the best competition in the country every season. Also, up until this season we have beaten every single FCS team that we have played, including 3 teams coming off of FCS championships!

You may be alright with settling for mediocrity, but I for one would rather see us fight our way back to the top!

[COS Cowboy]

With a healthy Brett Smith we would win the Big Sky. With Brett Smith we beat Cal Poly by 2tds. We've been close in all but 3 games....the last two might be more a product of where the season has gone vs. how we would play if the season didn't go south. A win will do wonders...so will winning out.

Go Pokes!!

we move down and brett smith transfers along with any other FBS level talent we have.....bank on it

hell....they wouldn't even lose a year for the transfer because the NCAA wouldn't consider it their fault that the university moved

What FBS talent? I would rather have a good or even dominant FCS team than the poop show FBS team we have.

You and all 5 other people who would like Wyoming to move down to FCS.

So you would honestly rather have a 1-11 or 2-10 FBS team than a national championship FCS team? Really?

If we were 1-11 and 2-10 year after year then you might have a point. Have you forgotten we were 8-4 just last year?

[Wyo2dal]

With a healthy Brett Smith we would win the Big Sky. With Brett Smith we beat Cal Poly by 2tds. We've been close in all but 3 games....the last two might be more a product of where the season has gone vs. how we would play if the season didn't go south. A win will do wonders...so will winning out.

Go Pokes!!

we move down and brett smith transfers along with any other FBS level talent we have.....bank on it

hell....they wouldn't even lose a year for the transfer because the NCAA wouldn't consider it their fault that the university moved

What FBS talent? I would rather have a good or even dominant FCS team than the poop show FBS team we have.

You and all 5 other people who would like Wyoming to move down to FCS.

So you would honestly rather have a 1-11 or 2-10 FBS team than a national championship FCS team? Really?

If we were 1-11 and 2-10 year after year then you might have a point. Have you forgotten we were 8-4 just last year?

I have to chime in here, Take the 4 games we won last season by less than 7 points and turn them into losses. We will be sitting exactly where we are right now. We had seniors that produced turnovers and they made the team 8-5 not the coaching staff or anyone else.

Any Football team can be lucky and win based on turnovers that is what we did last season. We didn't win by being out coached we won by getting lucky it's now time we all sit back and realize we were lucky or this would be the 3rd season @ 50% or less on the wins.

[TSpoke]

With a healthy Brett Smith we would win the Big Sky. With Brett Smith we beat Cal Poly by 2tds. We've been close in all but 3 games....the last two might be more a product of where the season has gone vs. how we would play if the season didn't go south. A win will do wonders...so will winning out.

Go Pokes!!

we move down and brett smith transfers along with any other FBS level talent we have.....bank on it

hell....they wouldn't even lose a year for the transfer because the NCAA wouldn't consider it their fault that the university moved

What FBS talent? I would rather have a good or even dominant FCS team than the poop show FBS team we have.

You and all 5 other people who would like Wyoming to move down to FCS.

So you would honestly rather have a 1-11 or 2-10 FBS team than a national championship FCS team? Really?

If we were 1-11 and 2-10 year after year then you might have a point. Have you forgotten we were 8-4 just last year?

I have to chime in here, Take the 4 games we won last season by less than 7 points and turn them into losses. We will be sitting exactly where we are right now. We had seniors that produced turnovers and they made the team 8-5 not the coaching staff or anyone else.

Any Football team can be lucky and win based on turnovers that is what we did last season. We didn't win by being out coached we won by getting lucky it's now time we all sit back and realize we were lucky or this would be the 3rd season @ 50% or less on the wins.

However, you can't claim that we were lucky to get to 8 wins last year and not also make the claim that we have been unluck this year in a number of our loses. The knife cuts both ways. If we were lucky last year i would say its pretty obvious we were unlucky this year. If we are what our records say we are then last year we were an 8 win team and this year so far we are a 1 win team.