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CSU -3.5
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Crow Creek
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I got the Pokes at +4.5 and took them to win out right.
This game is basically a toss up. CSU gets the edge because they are at home.
Unless one team got significantly better in the portal this offseason, this is a matchup between two bad football teams. I have a bad feeling about our offense that only gets worse the further fall camp progresses. I'm thinking we don't put up more than 10 points in Fort Collins. Is the defense good enough to hold them to less? We will find out soon enough.
Unless one team got significantly better in the portal this offseason, this is a matchup between two bad football teams. I have a bad feeling about our offense that only gets worse the further fall camp progresses. I'm thinking we don't put up more than 10 points in Fort Collins. Is the defense good enough to hold them to less? We will find out soon enough.
Way to go Burman! You should be so proud. Anyone hear the amount of kickback he is getting for pulling this shit? Tickets start at $100. Fucking joke.
LanderPoke
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The offense is getting progressively worse? Ugh
bladerunnr
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If we can't score more than 10 against this perennially bad defense, then it's going to be a rough year.
From what I am hearing from people only tangentially connected to the football program (ie. take it with a grain of salt), the offense is not looking good. Sounds like the O-line is still being dominated and no real playmakers emerging at the WR positions.
The few pieces that have come out of the media seem to confirm this. A lot of talk about the defense dominating, Hughes being picked off, and the one touchdown pass coming with a caveat of "but probably would have been a sack in a real game".
I'm not holding my breath that the offense is going to turn things around this season. Hope I'm wrong.
Bryoming
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I've seen the same reports. It blows my mind that Joe Tripoldi kept his job this offseason after the crap he's put on the field the past 2 years. If the O line can't keep defenders out of the backfield we've already lost.
Brew_Poke
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We already did send them to the PAC Bootless. We won last year, and they joined the PAC in July.
LanderPoke
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Well shit
Douglaspoke
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Plus CSU has a HC
J-Bone
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Defense usually comes out stronger earlier in the season, but, yes, it sounds like the OL and WR positions are lacking.
cowpoke pride
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Against a Sawvell coached team on opening day?
bladerunnr
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I'm looking forward to the Kevin Mckinney and Ryan Thorburn preseason hype hokum. Last year, the narrative was we had so many weapons, how will we distribute all the touchdowns? You'd of thought the greatest show on turf was coming to Laramie. As the saying goes, "past results do not guarantee future performance". So maybe this year will be different.
My question is: have we given up on Drube? I thought the kid showed some promise. It seems like an absolute act of desperation to give some D2 kid who shredded Hampton and New Hampshire state hundreds of thousands of dollars. Call it FCS if that makes you feel better. But it's not real football.
My question is: have we given up on Drube? I thought the kid showed some promise. It seems like an absolute act of desperation to give some D2 kid who shredded Hampton and New Hampshire state hundreds of thousands of dollars. Call it FCS if that makes you feel better. But it's not real football.
Div 1aa not d2. Big difference
I don't expect to see much of Drube this season unless there are injuries. Hughes, despite what the coaches say to the media, is the obvious starter. I suspect Sims is going to be the back-up. Everything I've heard indicates Sims is outperforming Drube so far in fall camp.
I suspect Hughes is here primarily because of the new OC. I bet he looked at the QB's on the roster and told UW and Sawvel he wasn't taking the job unless he could get "his guy" at QB - at least for his first year on the job. I would love to know what Hughes is actually being paid and how it compares to Kaden Anderson. The reality is that we are going to have to pay a pretty hefty amount to get a QB worth a shit. If we had more money, we'd have a QB better than Hughes.
OrediggerPoke
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I am with you on the ridiculous hype we get and the likelihood that the offense will not be great this year.
But Wyoming wouldn't have beat most of the FCS teams that went to the playoffs last year. There is some real good football being played in FCS that was much better than the quality of football we saw out of a large portion of the MWC (including Wyoming) last year.
These teams all finished with better Sagarin rankings than Wyoming last year (despite playing a schedule that makes obtaining a high Sagarin ranking much more difficult):
40 North Dakota State
47 Montana State
73 Montana
82 Tarleton State
87 Illinois State
95 North Dakota
99 South Dakota State
100 Stephen F. Austin
107 UC Davis
108 Southern Illinois
109 South Dakota
114 Yale
116 Lehigh
118 Youngstown State
121 Abilene Christian
Out of this list, maybe Wyoming could have beat Yale and Lehigh last year.
bladerunnr
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I get that. When I read what some of these high profile names like Carson Beck received in NIL, its insane. Frankly, it's more than he would get in the NFL. I don't expect to get a Ferrari with a Kia budget. And frankly, I'm shocked Sims came back for another year of this. I just hope the kid can stay injury free if he does end up playing.
