fromolwyoming said:
The ironic thing is that Beav used to be the biggest sunshine pumper on here.
He did...and unfortunately ended up being very wrong about certain teams like several people here have been. Sure, optimism and pessimism show as they are, you know them when you see them. That doesn't mean those being "pessimistic" are wrong. The negative fans have been dead on with Wyoming football for three consecutive seasons now. Or as BP said, at the very least much closer than the sunshine pumpers have been to projecting these teams.
Wyoming football in the new MW will always be tough to predict. In 2011, Wyoming won 8 games, but 6/7 of them were by very close margins that could have gone the other way. The following year, Wyoming won only 4 games, but played at least four others that could have gone the other way. That's UW football in a nutshell, a football's roll away from being decent or terrible.
The sunshine pumpers will say that the 2014 Cowboys were a few breaks away from going 6-6. The negative nancy's will say UW was a few very fortunate bounces (looking at you, FAU) from being 2-10 or even 1-11.
So really, none of us are "wrong". We're all essentially right in principle...but some of us are more cautious, others would rather see the glass half full.
I'm cautiously predicting 4-5 wins, but placed with a warning label that says "A few bad injuries away from being really, really bad"