Wyo can be competitive in hoops because you only need to recruit 12 players, 8 or so that can give you quality minutes, and 2-3 that are really good. It doesn't matter if they are all guards, or all bigs, or any combo of the 2.
Football, you need to recruit 60+, about 40 that can give you quality minutes, and 5-10 that are really good. But they can't be all the same position like in hoops.
You need 1-2 really good QBs. 1-3 really good RBs. And you need about 8 big, 6'3+, 300lbs+ people for the o-line, and similar numbers for the defense.
I guess what I am getting at is that there are more pieces to fit in the puzzle for a good football team.
Basketball, like I said, you can do with any combo of size and speed.
Fewer recruits means it's easier to get the team full.
Let's say Shyatt and DC both go and recruit 5 kids to Laramie that they think will be awesome and can rely on for the next 4 years. Well for Shyatt, that is a HUGE class. And for DC, that is a very small number of kids that are going to be good contributors.
It is just flat out easier to get a solid team built if there are fewer members of the team.
The 4 piece puzzle is a hell of a lot easier than the 100 piece puzzle.
