LanderPoke
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Wonder who will come out on top. It would be cool to see Drube emerge
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QB battle
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Bear Claw
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I agree. His familiarity with the offense should give him a leg up.
PorkerPoke
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While I understand the home grown player sentiment, what would be really cool is if whoever comes out on top is really good and whoever is the number two is pretty good as well.
It won’t matter how good either QB is if they are surrounded by glaring weaknesses and are poorly coached. The head guy better have put his best foot forward in resolving the absolute subpar mediocrity of scoring points with substantially obvious results.
Unfortunately, I am engrained with the fear Wyoming football will never play offense in a way that wins meaningful games after years of being at 100th or lower of the NCAA’s in total offense.
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This O is not overly complicated so any QB could come in and be ok. The three guy competing all have legs so that will help them.
Something that can help the QB is the OL to finally play well. They have been god awful
Wyolie Coyote
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Its a new offensive coordinator so how do you know the O is not overly complicated?
I live 10 minutes from W&M and follow them.
laxwyo
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Do we think our O coordinators were just inept or have we had a shortage of talent at QB? I'm sure some things are the coordinator but we scored when Josh was QB and offense looked more competent with Peasely as QB. Vigen and Polasek move on and look like they can run a team. I'd make an argument that we didn't have QBs who could see the field and throw the ball where it needed to go.
What if it was all of it.
PorkerPoke
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Vigen has shown he plays offense. The first thing he did at MSU was focus on getting a QB when he became the head coach and has not quit playing offense since.
Polasek has not turned NDSU into 3 plays and a punt try.
They simply did what the boss wanted and for the most part the program significantly lacked QB’s that were a legitimate threat to throw the ball. I doubt we would have recruited a QB as good as Peasley if USU hadn’t benched him in their pursuit of the MWC title. That was during the “national” search post by Bohl when Bohl’s first QB recruit was the #17 wannabe. Bohl also didn’t seem to feel the need to recruit a WR that anyone’s grandma couldn’t cover.
I will go with the QB position lacked significantly in the quality needed to pursue the conference title when the program was actually strong enough to compete. It has continued the past 2 years. Maybe it changes this season?
OrediggerPoke
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Vigen was able to sign and bring this one guy to Bozeman named Sean Chambers that had the Montana State offense rolling when he was in the game…
if only Wyoming could have found a QB what could have been…
PorkerPoke
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Besides a decent QB that can complete passes at a higher rate than 49% and 150 YPG, the need for receivers has been substantial as well.
I was on the serious side when I said all Wyoming has seemed to get were WR’s that a grandma could guard. It’s a fact the last receiver to exceed 1,000 yards was Gentry in 2016 receiving passes from Allen (amazing - a good QB and a good WR combo) and the last receiver to exceed 500 yards was Neyor (seriously unused as a weapon) in 2021. That is a decade of playing a style of ball that said play man coverage, load the box and don’t fear a pass completion because it’s unlikely to happen two times in a row.
I also pin blame on the offensive scheme where pass routes were designed to run to the defender, turn around standing still waiting for the ball to arrive since accuracy was a major issue. Perhaps the new OC will be permitted to utilize pass plays more difficult to defend if the QB has more than 1.5 seconds to pass the ball because the OL isn’t a sieve and can accurately hit a moving target instead of throwing behind or over the receiver by 3-5 yards.
I am definitely of the mind set that our offensive struggles are primarily a product of having not very good players on that side of the ball - especially at the QB position. Why? Anyone who has followed this program over the past couple decades can tell you how many OC's have been run out of town only to see their replacements fail just the same. Not only that, but many of the OC's we send packing go on to have success elsewhere.
We don't necessarily need another Josh Allen level QB, but we do need one that is at least in the top half of college football quarterbacks for that year. If I were Sawvel, I would be redirecting all that tight end NIL money to the QB position. I know some fans have reservations about concentrating too much NIL money toward a single position, but if it results in winning, I bet the other players won't mind as much.
Is Hughes the answer? I don't know, but even if he is, we are only one injury or one year away from being without his services.