TheRealUW said:Brian Hill did not make this list?
Outside of Pumphrey, he is the best RB the MWC has ever had. He was definitely better than Ajayi, Brad Roberts, and Staley. I would love to hear the justification for leaving Brian Hill off this list.
TheRealUW said:I looked at the MWC website and it says selections were made by the "Mountain West 25th Season Committee". It says that committee is made up of "members" from all 11 full-time institutions, but does not list any names.
I would not have put Josh Allen on that list. Josh has a lot of great physical tools and a very high ceiling, but he was not an elite college quarterback. Honestly, I don't even think he was the best quarterback Wyoming has had since our move to the MWC - I'd give that honor to Casey Bramlet. Bramlet didn't have the necessary tools to be successful in the NFL, while Josh does, but Bramlet was the better college quarterback.
Poke in New England said:Brett Smith was a better college QB than either of them
OrediggerPoke said:Offensive linemen were overlooked. Chase Roullier deserved consideration.
LanderPoke said:OrediggerPoke said:Offensive linemen were overlooked. Chase Roullier deserved consideration.
Totally overlooked as in completely overlooked. None at all! Why??
GoPokes86 said:Lots of recency bias. Brett Smith, Chase Roullier, Brian Hill, Adam Goldberg, Patrick Chukwurah, were all names that came to my mind.
Poke in New England said:TheRealUW said:I looked at the MWC website and it says selections were made by the "Mountain West 25th Season Committee". It says that committee is made up of "members" from all 11 full-time institutions, but does not list any names.
I would not have put Josh Allen on that list. Josh has a lot of great physical tools and a very high ceiling, but he was not an elite college quarterback. Honestly, I don't even think he was the best quarterback Wyoming has had since our move to the MWC - I'd give that honor to Casey Bramlet. Bramlet didn't have the necessary tools to be successful in the NFL, while Josh does, but Bramlet was the better college quarterback.
Brett Smith was a better college QB than either of them
bladerunnr said:Poke in New England said:Brett Smith was a better college QB than either of them
Absolute nonsense. Allen was absolutely dominant in 2016. The only conference games we lost were to Vegas in which we scored 66 points but gave up 68 and to New Mexico when the horrible defense gave up 56 points. In 2017, Allen threw 16 td's and only 6 picks. Against csewe, he basically ran on every down in the 4th quarter in the snow. He lost only 1 conference start in 2017. He got hurt and the team lost to an awful San Jose st. team and to Fresno st.. In both games, the offense was incompetent. Allen literally had nothing to work with his junior year. He had no receivers, Brian Hill had left and we had no running game. And the Oline was marginal. I'd argue we'd have been a last place team with out Allen in 2017.
Brett Smith had a great freshman year and then Josh Doctson transferred and he was a lot less effective. We were basically awful in Smith's sophmore and junior seasons. Not all Smith's fault but the offense was mostly terrible. Christensen was fired after after Smith's junior year, for god's sake!