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WyoCow85

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I guess we can all rant and rave about Schroyer until we are blue in the face, but what's going to happen is going to happen.
After 3 conference games, its hard to see this team winning any more road games, and with the exception of CSU and maybe 1 or 2 more, we've shown no ability to win at home. Ladies and gentleman, we are on pace for an 8-20 (2-14) season, and that honestly may be on the homer side. I want this team to win as much as anyone, I'm not trying to stir up coach controversy. This is a very likely conclusion. So the question is... Forget what we think, What will Burman do after a season like that? It seems ridiculous to can a guy after one season, but the writing is on the wall if he manages just 1 or 2 wins with an older version of the team Mcclain won 7 with (plus 1 tourney game), and was fired for. I understand there is a learning curve we you attempt to undo and redo everything. But what does he stand for? The offense is just as plain and boring as Mcclains, the only difference is we are scoring less with it. And what happened to "I'm a man to man guy, thats what we are going to do here, play 40 minutes of in your face man to man defense"??? Even when we played man to man, it sure wasn't in your face, and Wednesday night we played 40 minutes of the worst zone defense I've seen this season. Opposing coaches run circles around him night after night. Last night really was a knew low though. Yeah we lost, whats new, but the AA has hit a knew low folks. People just don't care anymore. Fans jumped ship in heards through Mcclains last seasons, and the ones that peaked their heads in this season with the arrival of Schroyer are simply pulling them back out, and quietly closing the door. For anyone who was there last night, you know what I'm taking about. For 2 hours the crowd sat quietly while Schroyer called time out after time out stomping his feet and slapping his hands together. The 2500 fans in attendance rose to their feet on the slightest indication of a run, only to be quickly silenced after back to back turnovers, or back to back charging violations.
I guess you can look to next year, and wait to judge Heath until then. Many have said, and I'm starting to argee, that this team will be better off without Jones and Taylor. This team just flat out doesn't have any chemistry. Position by position Wyoming was better than AFA last night. By far. Hopefully the transfers and red shirt will find that chemistry with Ewing, Dermody, Nelson, Platt, Waddell, Linskeins, etc.
 
I'm as disappointed as anyone else on this board, but I have to agree with Kansan about the free throws last night - they were part of the reason we lost the game.

I have to partly disagree with David Settle's comments after the game about Linskins performance. He did play better than he has in the past and I know he is a freshman, but he has a long way to go. He does not battle for rebounding position or leave his feet for rebounds or go after loose balls - the only rebounds he gets are the ones that happen to come to him. He did get a couple of nice put backs last night, but I think Nelson would have done the same.

I was very disappointed with the officiating last night - there were more bad calls or no calls last night than I can count. The one call against Ewing toward the end of the game was a good example - he was not within a foot of the man and never touched him, while we were getting body checked and mugged at our end and they were not being called.

One comment after the game by Ewing really sticks in my mind and it was something like "I am tired of being taught basketball".

As for the crowd, it was a weekday night early start, with the temp below zero. I travelled well over 100 miles to get to Laramie and just barely made it home through the ground blizzards. My question is, why aren't more people from Laramie (and students) coming to the games?

These games with Air Force are just about always close, this one was no different.
 
WyoCow85 predicts 2-14 season. I don't think it will be that bad, but will be 1-6 before anything happens.

Note to WyoCow85: Break up your posts with paragraphs to make them easier to read,

Note to WYcowboy: Break up your posts with paragraphs to make them easier to read.

Note to Schroyer: Break up.
 
You're right about the attendance issue. People from Laramie just don't come out to support the Cowboys. Jumping on the Cowgirls bandwagon is the popular thing to do right now. EVERYBODY you talk to at a women's game will tell you they were one of the first Cowgirls fans and used to go to every game way back before they were any good. They take pride in the fact that they don't support the men as much as the women. Nothing against the ladies because I'm glad they're so good, but I hate that.

As for the Pokes' season, I'm just hoping they can get all these issues they have worked out and make a run come tourney time. But as of right now, all signs point toward a tough, tough road from here on out.

I keep looking at those freshmen and transfers we have sitting on the end of the bench and keep wondering what's going through their heads as they watch this team continue to lose every night. You have to wonder if Sean Ogirri is beginning to question his decision to transfer. Same with the Baylor kid. You wonder if Afam is starting to ask himself if he really wants to play here next year. So far, Schroyer looks like he's brought in some pretty talented kids for the future of the program, but I'm scared about what all these losses could do to recruiting. No matter how good a recruiter Schroyer is, nobody likes to play for a losing team.
 
What kind of attendance is the women getting nowadays?

The Lady Griz, whom the Cowgirls beat, get about 4000 per game, but still fall well short of the men's team who is not quite as good.
 
The women have been getting between 4000 and 5000 pretty consistently. The men are actually getting about that same amount on paper, but I go to every men's and women's game, and I swear the arena looks more full when the women play than when the men do.
 
Anybody else think spotting the conference favorite 19 points on their court to start a game is an effective winning strategy? Are things really this bad with the basketball team? For someone that can't follow the team other than reading about it on the web, this really doesn't resemble the teams I remember from just a couple of seasons ago.
 
Ewing complained the that ball was "flat" (not enough air - not flat like the Pokes that night).

He may have a point. The ball has to have exactly the same feel all the time or things get messed up. Who knows, the ball may have been made delibrately flat - and SD practiced with it that way all week to get the feel of it.

If so, it reminds me of the tricks Utah played on the Pokes in football long ago when Wyo had great fast receivers. They would let the grass grow very long and then wetted it down before the game to slow things up
 
A flat basketball sounds pretty lame to me, IMO. Maybe it was just poor shooting and defense. :twocents:
 
Flat ball or not, this is the worst I've seen the men's basketball team play in years. I've watched every game except the ones at Lamar, at Wichita State and at UTEP, and I honestly think we're getting worse week in and week out. We looked much better against Colorado a few weeks ago than we do now, IMO. Maybe everybody else is just getting better faster than we are.

Either way, it can't get much worse than it's been the last four games.
 
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