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An atrocious season thankfully comes to an end...

DocHolliday

DocHolliday

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It's now over.

Thank The Good Lord for that.

A season where if you're into personal statistics there is Brett Smith -- and there is nothing else after that, unless you wanna talk about our second best offensive player, our punter, Tim Gleeson.

Never have I seen a defense so pathetically weak, and there is no other way to describe it.

Have you ever seen a team that on defense made each offense they played against look as though that offense had 16 players to Wyoming's 11?

Stopping the run was as futile as any team on ANY level since I've been watching football for more than 40 years.

The pass defense was nothing to gloat about either.

I knew our physicality would be lacking a bit following the departures of Biezuns & Knapton, but to the degree they fell was astonishing - almost unfathomable if I'd not seen it with my own eyes.

Anyone know where we can buy a pass rush at Walmart and for how much?

Can Chris Tormey please get the Idaho job?

On offense it was #16 and you can put a period at the end of the sentence.

A one dimensional offense with very little in the way of a run game, an offensive line that was constantly pushed around all season long.

Special teams, err, 'forces'?

Outside of Gleeson a natural disaster all year long particularly the return game and the KO coverage unit.

A few late season wins over some fellow dregs should have allowed nobody on this board to be smitten at all...those wins were the very epitome of fools gold ladies and gents.

The Dave Christensen situation only added to the nightmare.

Pack it in, put away the equipment and footballs, close the chapter on a season where if they made a highlight film of it should be entitled; 'Wyoming Football 2102...an unmitigated disaster'

Talk about buzz kill?

Wyoming football 2102 gave new meaning to the term.

See you next year.

GO POKES!
 
Any pass defense would be terrible if u can never stop the run. How could you ever call a play to stop a pass when they kill you on the ground
 
I hope that Dave Christensen is on the phone tonight looking for a new defensive coordinator. Chris Tormey has been nothing short of awful this season. Give Alex Grinch a shot at the job. He seems to at least have some fire.

I was sitting right behind the linebacking corps. After every pathetic series Robin Ross would calmly take out his whiteboard and draw pretty pictures for his players. Not one person on that squad seemed the least bit angry that Muema was making them look like a per wee team. Someone on that coaching staff needs to light a fire under the ass of the defense next year or it will be more of the same.
 
DocHolliday said:
It's now over.

Thank The Good Lord for that.

A season where if you're into personal statistics there is Brett Smith -- and there is nothing else after that, unless you wanna talk about our second best offensive player, our punter, Tim Gleeson.

Never have I seen a defense so pathetically weak, and there is no other way to describe it.

Have you ever seen a team that on defense made each offense they played against look as though that offense had 16 players to Wyoming's 11?

Stopping the run was as futile as any team on ANY level since I've been watching football for more than 40 years.

The pass defense was nothing to gloat about either.

I knew our physicality would be lacking a bit following the departures of Biezuns & Knapton, but to the degree they fell was astonishing - almost unfathomable if I'd not seen it with my own eyes.

Anyone know where we can buy a pass rush at Walmart and for how much?

Can Chris Tormey please get the Idaho job?

On offense it was #16 and you can put a period at the end of the sentence.

A one dimensional offense with very little in the way of a run game, an offensive line that was constantly pushed around all season long.

Special teams, err, 'forces'?

Outside of Gleeson a natural disaster all year long particularly the return game and the KO coverage unit.

A few late season wins over some fellow dregs should have allowed nobody on this board to be smitten at all...those wins were the very epitome of fools gold ladies and gents.

The Dave Christensen situation only added to the nightmare.

Pack it in, put away the equipment and footballs, close the chapter on a season where if they made a highlight film of it should be entitled; 'Wyoming Football 2102...an unmitigated disaster'

Talk about buzz kill?

Wyoming football 2102 gave new meaning to the term.

See you next year.

GO POKES!
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DAM YOU DINO!!! DAM YOU TO HELL!!! I DONT WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH. IM PUTTING MY BROWN AND GOLD SUNGLASSES BACK ON CAUSE THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT AND I LOVE DRINKING THE KOOL AID. :coffee:
 
Cuttslam said:
DocHolliday said:
It's now over.

Thank The Good Lord for that.

A season where if you're into personal statistics there is Brett Smith -- and there is nothing else after that, unless you wanna talk about our second best offensive player, our punter, Tim Gleeson.

Never have I seen a defense so pathetically weak, and there is no other way to describe it.

Have you ever seen a team that on defense made each offense they played against look as though that offense had 16 players to Wyoming's 11?

Stopping the run was as futile as any team on ANY level since I've been watching football for more than 40 years.

The pass defense was nothing to gloat about either.

I knew our physicality would be lacking a bit following the departures of Biezuns & Knapton, but to the degree they fell was astonishing - almost unfathomable if I'd not seen it with my own eyes.

Anyone know where we can buy a pass rush at Walmart and for how much?

Can Chris Tormey please get the Idaho job?

On offense it was #16 and you can put a period at the end of the sentence.

A one dimensional offense with very little in the way of a run game, an offensive line that was constantly pushed around all season long.

Special teams, err, 'forces'?

Outside of Gleeson a natural disaster all year long particularly the return game and the KO coverage unit.

A few late season wins over some fellow dregs should have allowed nobody on this board to be smitten at all...those wins were the very epitome of fools gold ladies and gents.

The Dave Christensen situation only added to the nightmare.

Pack it in, put away the equipment and footballs, close the chapter on a season where if they made a highlight film of it should be entitled; 'Wyoming Football 2102...an unmitigated disaster'

Talk about buzz kill?

Wyoming football 2102 gave new meaning to the term.

See you next year.

GO POKES!
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DAM YOU DINO!!! DAM YOU TO HELL!!! I DONT WANT TO HEAR THE TRUTH. IM PUTTING MY BROWN AND GOLD SUNGLASSES BACK ON CAUSE THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT AND I LOVE DRINKING THE KOOL AID. :coffee:
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Tell me about it amigo.

I'm reading this board the last few weeks with people seemingly either overjoyed or delusional over beating horrific football teams (like Wyoming)...teams like CSU, New Mexico, and UNLV, talking like the Pokes had turned some corner.

Lots of unintelligent folks congregate round here...
 
We gave a league champion a hell of a game. I'm not going to eat a bullet yet. Even looked like we could win if we don't take ambien at halftime.
 
laxwyo said:
We gave a league champion a hell of a game. I'm not going to eat a bullet yet. Even looked like we could win if we don't take ambien at halftime.
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Seriously, if we could just, say, flow the 2nd quater into the 3rd, I think we win more games.
 
laxwyo said:
We gave a league champion a hell of a game. I'm not going to eat a bullet yet. Even looked like we could win if we don't take ambien at halftime.
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Please.

I beg of you to stop.

You don't allow an opponent 4oo YARDS RUSHING...and classify your team as giving the other team; 'a hell of a game'.

If not for a fluke-like end of 1st half touchdown (great individual effort by Herron) the final would have been more indicative of the end result.

San Diego State played this game as though they were bored...pissed off in the 2nd half that Wyoming had the audacity to score that TD at the end of the half.

A hell of a game?

Allowing 564 total yards and losing by the count of 42 to 28?

If they go 500 next season I guess Christensen gets a lifetime deal?
 
Holy shit, we gave up 564 yds. Its worse than I thought, really, 564 yds with them running for 400. Ouch thats bad just plain bad.
 
laxwyo said:
It happens in a shoot out. Difference is we forgot to shoot in second half.
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I think his point is.....good programs don't get into "shootouts"......good teams know how to play defense.
 
Doc is right of course..

The Kool Aid drinking contingent will always have the stability argument, the cowboy-up argument, and the "success is just around the corner" argument

but the fire DC (and in my case, fire Burman as well) argument is this:

Wyoming is not putting quality competition on the field or on the court on a consistent basis.
In fact its pretty damn embarrassing. Mediocracy and failure is all we see in our rear view mirror. Our coach made an ass of himself in front of the nation, and our AD lied to the entire state about how things went down after that...

This is not a hard decision. We are blowing millions of dollars and precious time.

All I want for Christmas is for the new president of UW to hit the reset button and get some guys with skills (and character too, if its not too much to ask) running the Athletic department and our Football program.

Keep talking Doc, you are the voice of reason on here. Wish more Cowboy Joes had the Cajones to demand the initiation of a thoughtful transition from Burman and DC to something resembling a program reflective of the pride and class of the state

They seem to be able to do this in Boise, Fresno, Logan, Reno...but not in Wyoming
 
WyoAlum1987 said:
Doc is right of course..

The Kool Aid drinking contingent will always have the stability argument, the cowboy-up argument, and the "success is just around the corner" argument

but the fire DC (and in my case, fire Burman as well) argument is this:

Wyoming is not putting quality competition on the field or on the court on a consistent basis.
In fact its pretty damn embarrassing. Mediocracy and failure is all we see in our rear view mirror. Our coach made an ass of himself in front of the nation, and our AD lied to the entire state about how things went down after that...

This is not a hard decision. We are blowing millions of dollars and precious time.

All I want for Christmas is for the new president of UW to hit the reset button and get some guys with skills (and character too, if its not too much to ask) running the Athletic department and our Football program.

Keep talking Doc, you are the voice of reason on here. Wish more Cowboy Joes had the Cajones to demand the initiation of a thoughtful transition from Burman and DC to something resembling a program reflective of the pride and class of the state

They seem to be able to do this in Boise, Fresno, Logan, Reno...but not in Wyoming
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I hear ya my friend of fellow reason who refuses to be seduced by the brown & gold kool aid club.

I've hinted all season long of the need to exterminate the culture presently in play in Larmaie so far as our football team is concerned.

It's time for a new approach, a bold approach, an approach with vision and a 'must do', rather than the 'I hope we can', mentality.

I'm fed up with mediocrity, the one step forward 2 steps back regiment that seems to have solidified in the minds of far too many as far as what is acceptable/attainable.

Coach Christensen said the following at his introductory presser: "I asked myself if there was anything here that would not allow me to succeed and build a winning program...I could not find anything that would prevent me from doing just that."

Now the above quote is as close to verbatim as I can remember -- but it is not very far off at all.

Well in four years now the results can't be what the Wyoming administration had hoped for when Coach C was handed the keys.

I not only want a winning football program -- I demand a winning football program, and every Wyoming fan should be demanding that, especially when you can glance across the country and see examples of success with schools who have not been perennial winners -- but who have generated much more momentum than what we have seen in Laramie.

It's why I can appreciate -- if not actually be inspired by what is going on in Ft Collins right now...if they actually are able to become a bigger time football program is really not the point...the point is that they appear to be willing to die tying to make CSU Rams football more relevant than it's maybe ever been before. They'e vision says that the status quo just isn't acceptable, that winning will not be asked for -- it will be demanded of! How could you not love this mindset and wish it were par for the course at The War?

As I exited the game today at the half with my little buckaroo who was pretty cold, I looked at the stands (mostly family & friends it seemed) and immediately sensed depression, in a personal sense yes, but also in the sense of a despondent (and with good reason) fan base, and in the sense that a football program seemed to be in a perpetual state of just 'being there'...that there was a game going on, the last game of the year, but it was just there as an almost distraction of sorts...it was a game being played almost in black & white instead of vibrant technicolor associated with a program full of energy and excitement.

As a now 12 year Wyoming football fan, and a first year resident of my adopted home state, the response I usually get from people is that the Wyoming athletic situation is what it is, and to just be happy to know its there is a football team that plays in Laramie.

But I cannot accept this!

I wont accept this -- it is nowhere to be found in my DNA and in my personality!

I'm tired of not mattering in the world of CFB, I'm tired of what I sense is a lack of disgust for the awful results, the feeling of complacency, the feeling that our statewide press does not exert the heat it should to the program when the time certainly calls for it, and mostly I'm tired of a fan base that is seemingly conditioned to not want to expect more - much more, not just a single winning season or two, but a program that regularly can be expected to contend for a conference championship, or at the very least finish in the show or place category - as a worst case scenario.

I moved to Wyoming as a matter of choice, and I had to fight my employer tooth and nail to make the transition possible, a transition that has been a few yeas in the making...I am proud of Wyoming, it's people, it's heritage, it's legacy, it's past, and it's future for sure.

As such I want our singular big time sporting attraction to be a symbol of the pride that most of us who live here feel for our great state -- and that is the Wyoming football team. (Basketball as well)

Call it a sense of worth in a way, call it a sense of being, a sense of what provides us with the ability to hold our heads high and feel a sense of overwhelming pride for the franchise so to speak.

Lets face it, this was not a bad season, this was instead a horrific season on multiple levels...as the season went from one week to the next it became apparent to me just how talent-less this roster really is/was.

With that said and all my attention now on the Broncos from a football angle, would anyone hold it against Tom Burman if he woke up on Monday and felt the same disgust that many of us do? What if Tom Burman is tired of the losing, the mediocrity, the status quo that just won't suffice?

What if Tom Burman convinced the school to buy out Christensen and sought to bring in a new face that arrived with the same expectations and demands that many of us have...the same expectations that hopefully Tom Burman has???

On a personal level I happen to like Dave Christensen...the other side of my brain wonders that with all that went on with this just completed season, a season from hell lets face it, that if a proactive move by Burman to relieve Christensen of his job and clean house might be the best option at this juncture...for everyone.

I wonder what the Casper Star-Tribune thinks about such a scenario...the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle as well. I have subscriptions to both newspapers, perhaps someone from their staff will publish a real opinion piece with their name attached.

Then again, I doubt it.

Why?

Cause here in Wyoming...it is what it is.

I'll just try to be happy about it.
 
+1,000,000~! :!: :!: :!: :!:

BEST DAMN POST THIS YEAR :king:

Damn Doc, you nailed it. You really did. :thumb:

I wish that post was required reading for every UW Trustee, Wyoming Legislator, and newspaper editor in the state.
I am so tired of listening to folks defend this mess.. Your post really illustrated that the damage to the program and its future may pale in comparison to the sickness of heart that UW fans are experiencing, and their acceptance that this rotten mess is the new normal-or to quote Tom Burman, "we are what we are".. :willybs:

What we need is a collective agreement that this is NOT normal for UW and we wont accept it and that it..will...not....stand :protesst:

Your post needs to be read at every Cowboy Joe Club meeting until someone in the right place grows a backbone and helps re establish the excellence in athletic programming that the state we love so much deserves!!! :tickedoff:
 
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