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CFN is luvin a little PBJ

Ultimately...it's a new coach...I don't think anybody has a real feel for what this year's team will be. There are reasons to be optimistic. But experience has taught this pokes fan to temper those feelings.
 
From the outside looking in, it often seems to me like we go into road games with with a poor mentality. The game plan from the coaches always seems to be something like "let's play super conservative, keep it close, and hope we can make a big play or two to sneak out of there with a W". Our opponent is always "a really good football team" and are always "going to make it tough on us". It's OK to respect your opponent. It's not OK to make your own team believe that they aren't as good and will be lucky to come back to Laramie with a W.

Those players need to go in there with the belief that they are the better team with the better players and that they intend to prove that no matter any outside circumstances. That mental confidence is a big part of successful athletes, and it all starts at the top. Our coaching staff needs to exude confidence and make it clear they expect us to leave with a win and that anything else is a failure and unacceptable.
 
TheRealUW said:
From the outside looking in, it often seems to me like we go into road games with with a poor mentality. The game plan from the coaches always seems to be something like "let's play super conservative, keep it close, and hope we can make a big play or two to sneak out of there with a W". Our opponent is always "a really good football team" and are always "going to make it tough on us". It's OK to respect your opponent. It's not OK to make your own team believe that they aren't as good and will be lucky to come back to Laramie with a W.

Those players need to go in there with the belief that they are the better team with the better players and that they intend to prove that no matter any outside circumstances. That mental confidence is a big part of successful athletes, and it all starts at the top. Our coaching staff needs to exude confidence and make it clear they expect us to leave with a win and that anything else is a failure and unacceptable.
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Yup...I think you are right on here. At a certain point you have to "go and get it". Really bad and undisciplined opponents will beat themselves but if you don't have a plan to take the fight to the opponent...you just won't beat enough of the median teams to rise to the top.
 
This is the #1 thing I'm hoping to see improvement in from Sawvel. Craig Bohl rarely had teams ready for a road game, even when they were juggernauts at home. Looking forward to see if Sawvel and company can have a consistent team no matter the venue.
 
The problem really is that Bohl won some home games against the P5 where we stuck to the plan and eeked it out at the end. I don't think just because you did that at Home and it worked that you can go on the road and do it. I think a coaches mentality should be to go out and take it. Odds are you're not winning the road game anyway. Go out there and kick them in the shins and get after them. Nothing is worse than watching us rush 4 and have the team just pick us apart for 3 straight drives. I'd rather see us bring the house and if the QB gets rid of it for a TD just before he's hit, so be it.
 
laxwyo said:
The problem really is that Bohl won some home games against the P5 where we stuck to the plan and eeked it out at the end. I don't think just because you did that at Home and it worked that you can go on the road and do it. I think a coaches mentality should be to go out and take it. Odds are you're not winning the road game anyway. Go out there and kick them in the shins and get after them. Nothing is worse than watching us rush 4 and have the team just pick us apart for 3 straight drives. I'd rather see us bring the house and if the QB gets rid of it for a TD just before he's hit, so be it.
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Agree. It was a near certainty that we would lose on the road. Need to make something happen, because we don’t have home field and altitude on our side
 
I'd be happy if we can just start beating inferior conference opponents on the road.

The number of times we have been beaten convincingly by mediocre conference opponents on the road is my biggest pet peeve with this program. I'm so tired of inevitably getting our ass handed to us by the dregs of the conference after an encouraging start to the season just because the game isn't in Laramie. It's enough to make me want to tune out the rest of the season.
 
Bohl really pissed down his leg when it came to away games during his tenure. That part of his "style" really pissed me off as a fan.
 
Hopefully last time byu is ever on the schedule. If PBJ takes down both byu and csu, he'll get a lot of rope regardless of the rest.
Will this be the last time byu and csu are on the schedule in the same year?
 
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