PorkerPoke
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It’s been happening to QB’s at Wyoming since Christensen was fired. Other than the first 2 years transitioning to Bohl style when Bohl had the athlete (Allen) of the century drop in his lap. Bohl had very little development amongst his QB’s and in all honesty Peasley played at his peak level because the door was opened. The caveat - and this isn’t any personal knock because I know my limitations athletically with each year I participate - Peasley was demoted as the starter at USU and then he transferred. Bohl was fortunate USU made that move in his national QB search. Who was his prime development target? Sawful’s first prized QB (Svoboda) that could only make his JC’s practice squad before Bohl signed and redshirted. Then Anderson comes in to replace a really bad Svoboda with a lot of promise but the overall offense was so weak he looked bad. What’s Anderson doing now? Putting up huge FCS numbers like he did at Southlake Carroll after taking the spot over from Quinn Ewers.
Wyoming and the offensive philosophy for the past decade has become the place where a QB and WR’s don’t want to come. The mindset here is that the defense wins the game and the point scoring side of the game objective is not the priority. This OC from William and Mary doesn’t exactly bring anything noticeable to the offense and this “expensive superstar” QB is playing D2 superstar level in the FBS which is like asking an 85 lb 10 year old from 5th grade flag football to go kick ass on the varsity football team against faster 200 lb 17 year olds.
Wyoming under Sawful is a mediocre level FCS program at the best. There are maybe 10 FBS programs absolutely worse than Wyoming and probably 20 that are interchangeable as bad or shows some life any given week.
The QB position has been worse than better and the components of the surrounding team are poorly coached. With their inherent limitations and being poorly coached the entire unit gets exposed by any well prepared physical team. NDSU gave up over 300 yards to AFA and Sac St but Wyoming gets a bad FCS team Fordham numbers at 170.
Our offense just plain sucks and the defense isn’t exactly overwhelming to the opponent. The D is good enough to give a team that can score 24 or more points a chance to win. Our 14 points per game average is easily beat by the 22 average given up. Nothing was fixed on offense. It is not a good unit.
