2026-2027 Season - Who's Excited?

[doreno5]

Bohl ball for me was a love/hate type relationship and this is why:

Games under 300 yards total offense:

2014 - 0-3
2015 - 0-3
2016 - 0-0 Josh Allen
2017 - 5-3 Josh Allen
2018 - 0-5
2019 - 2-3
2020 - 0-1
2021 - 0-4
2022 - 2-5
2023 - 1-3

10-30 under 300 yds 6-21 mwc 4-9 OOC
(5-27 under 300 excluding Josh Allen)

51-30 over 300 yds 31-20 mwc 19-10 OOC (35-19 over 300 excluding Josh Allen)

61-60 all games 37-41 MWC
45-49 all games 26-36 MWC excluding Josh Allen

33% of all games were under 300 yards of offense

25% win rate (22.2% mwc) under 300 yards of offense

67.5% of under 300 yards of offense are conference games

Bohl struggled with teams that finished the season with winning records and mainly feasted on sub .500 teams. The #1 reason IMO why Wyoming didn’t compete for a MWC title was that the line up under center to avoid negative plays, ground and pound and avoid turnovers method lost a helluva lot more MWC games than the program should have with many of those games winnable simply because we struggled to get that needed 1st down to avoid the punt. Bohl asked a lot of his defense and had some good ones but I have to wonder if he complimented them with a more prolific offense what could have been.

His 9-4 final team in 2023:

2023 4-4 vs .500+
2023 5-0 vs sub .500

And now we are in 2026 (rejected by the traitors and left accepting the MWC standard pay with the remaining also rans) because we have not been a big MWC winner EVER. We are saying stuff like we might get to 6-6 with this schedule. In fairness to Bohl he was the best at winning MWC games and I am very grateful to have enjoyed the run. I am simply tired of being a MWC patsy that could never win the big conference games.

I think we tend to overlook Brian Hill and his contributions in 2016.

 

[PorkerPoke]

I think we tend to overlook Brian Hill and his contributions in 2016.

The RB position was a huge factor. When it was on the weaker side the offense struggled as in 2017 when even with Allen the offense was anemic due to a lack of a solid RB and very marginal receivers.

Overall the program had some very good RB production. For a primary rushing offense it was often 100 or more yards per game less than AFA while the passing game was almost the same as the AFA.

The biggest challenge was the inability to score needed points and when teams were strong enough to stack the box with extra defenders it was about a 75% loss rate. To me that was a red flag that should have been addressed. When Howdy Doody at AFA has his rushing game well tuned they tend to win a lot of games and during Bohl’s tenure AFA had 5 10+ win seasons and only 2 seasons under .500 in MWC play. That’s the level of success I desire to see at Wyoming.

 

[laxwyo]

The RB position was a huge factor. When it was on the weaker side the offense struggled as in 2017 when even with Allen the offense was anemic due to a lack of a solid RB and very marginal receivers.

Overall the program had some very good RB production. For a primary rushing offense it was often 100 or more yards per game less than AFA while the passing game was almost the same as the AFA.

The biggest challenge was the inability to score needed points and when teams were strong enough to stack the box with extra defenders it was about a 75% loss rate. To me that was a red flag that should have been addressed. When Howdy Doody at AFA has his rushing game well tuned they tend to win a lot of games and during Bohl’s tenure AFA had 5 10+ win seasons and only 2 seasons under .500 in MWC play. That’s the level of success I desire to see at Wyoming.

Not having a RB to follow Hill was a travesty by itself. Who was the LB we tried running that year?

 

[307bball]

Bohl struggled with teams that finished the season with winning records and mainly feasted on sub .500 teams. The #1 reason IMO why Wyoming didn’t compete for a MWC title was that the line up under center to avoid negative plays, ground and pound and avoid turnovers method lost a helluva lot more MWC games than the program should have with many of those games winnable simply because we struggled to get that needed 1st down to avoid the punt. Bohl asked a lot of his defense and had some good ones but I have to wonder if he complimented them with a more prolific offense what could have been.

His 9-4 final team in 2023:

2023 4-4 vs .500+
2023 5-0 vs sub .500

Your overall analysis of Bohl's inability to figure out how to be successful offensively is spot on....I just wanted to highlight the passage I pulled out here.

Why are we surprised that Bohl...or any coach for that matter, would have a worse record against teams over .500 than against teams under .500. Am I missing something? Isn't this true for every league, every sport, every level? If a college football team has three wins on the season, it would be an outlier if those three wins were against teams with winning records and if a team has three losses....it would be just as big of an outlier if those losses were to teams with losing records.

Look.....Bohl was an average MWC level coach when measured just by results (a bar which unfortunately puts him in rarified air in Laramie) in that his teams struggled to beat BSU or have consistent success against SDSU, Fresno, AFA and the other teams that won more than they lost....and they "feasted" on the cellar dwellars. Saying that Bohl's teams struggled against the top of the leage makes it sound like it's an extra demerit or something when it's just what .500 level teams will do. His problem is that his ceiling just wasn't that high...his saving grace is that his floor wasn't abysmall....that's his tenure in a nutshell....competence without excellence.

 

[PorkerPoke]

His problem is that his ceiling just wasn't that high...his saving grace is that his floor wasn't abysmall....that's his tenure in a nutshell....competence without excellence.

Nice summary. The Bohl results were so enjoyable as compared to the history of Wyoming football in the MWC since Dimhole left. Yet, they were really kinda so-so overall.

Is it unreasonable to have a hunger as a fan to experience something more than the elevator stopping halfway up and you are prohibited from entering the upper levels?

It has been so bad for so long in MWC games that getting to 6 wins and some bowl game despite the record in conference is a delightful experience. It seems that is the ceiling for Wyoming football.

 

[TheRealUW]

Nice summary. The Bohl results were so enjoyable as compared to the history of Wyoming football in the MWC since Dimhole left. Yet, they were really kinda so-so overall.

Is it unreasonable to have a hunger as a fan to experience something more than the elevator stopping halfway up and you are prohibited from entering the upper levels?

It has been so bad for so long in MWC games that getting to 6 wins and some bowl game despite the record in conference is a delightful experience. It seems that is the ceiling for Wyoming football.

Bohl left at exactly the right time. He had hit his ceiling at Wyoming - he just didn’t have a MWC championship in him.

I do appreciate that he built a solid foundation though. The expectation was seemingly that that next step was to bring someone in who could finally get us over the hump and win us a conference championship. Unfortunately, Sawvel came in and blew up the foundation it took Bohl a decade to build. Now it just seems like we are back to pouring the foundation again, if Sawvel can even get that right.

We are typically hiring coaches after we’ve fired another one for sucking. Finally, we had a coach leaving in fairly good standing. Even if it was only consistent mediocrity, it was the best place the program had been in three decades. And we found a way to fuck it up by hiring Sawvel.