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Not that we'll win another game but

Even if he was, I am sick of treating these officials as if they are donating time to a middle school program on a Saturday morning and sacrificing for us. They are paid professionals and shouldn't be immune from being called out. Of course, that might not be politically smart. But who are they to be immune from public criticism when everyone else in the whole f'in world certainly isn't. Based upon the ESPN article, he said "we have had some horses ass officiating". Call those SOB's out when they make bullshit calls (and have replay to help). The block in the back was a bullshit call by a team of moronic refs. and umps. Good for Swavell for calling them out. More should do it more loudly.
Your expectation for officiating does not match the NCAA or the conference's expectation for officiating. Sure, they are paid "professionals", but most-if-not-all of them have other full time jobs. Not even the NFL has full-time officials. Look at this list of current NFL officials and their full-time jobs.

The Mountain West is a feeder league for the Power Conferences. The best officials the MW have routinely get promoted/poached up to the big boys. So, we're always going to have mediocre, if you want to call it that, at best officials.

Anger at the men and women in stripes is misplaced. Blame the system. Blame the conferences. Blame the NCAA.
 
Of course it doesn't and we seem to be in agreement. NCAA and Mountain West would prefer for coaches, players, and announcers to remain entirely silent...even when proven-to-be horrible calls change the outcome of a game. Swavell had every right to criticize the calls (some were bad...the pass interference against Wyoming was clearly the right call) without the Mountain West reprimanding him. Officials are gonna make bad calls. It's part of the game. My problem is treating them like children and making them immune from any level of criticism. So what...he called them out. Big Deal. Should we just pretend they did a great job and hope there isn't another "Fail Mary"?
 
Of course it doesn't and we seem to be in agreement. NCAA and Mountain West would prefer for coaches, players, and announcers to remain entirely silent...even when proven-to-be horrible calls change the outcome of a game. Swavell had every right to criticize the calls (some were bad...the pass interference against Wyoming was clearly the right call) without the Mountain West reprimanding him. Officials are gonna make bad calls. It's part of the game. My problem is treating them like children and making them immune from any level of criticism. So what...he called them out. Big Deal. Should we just pretend they did a great job and hope there isn't another "Fail Mary"?
But thowing a flag on a play on a play after our guy was 15 yards out of bounds into the kickers net was unexplainable picked up is unreal.
 
But thowing a flag on a play on a play after our guy was 15 yards out of bounds into the kickers net was unexplainable picked up is unreal.
Totally agree with you. The announcers tried to say something like "ya' gotta fight back a little bit" but I disagree. There was no "flopping" by the Wyoming player (maybe Sergeant?) and it was an atrocious call. Refs make bad calls...coaches shouldn't be penalized for speaking out (my point).
 
Well, he did hire Bohl, Shyatt, Mattinson, & several others in sports that don’t bring in revenue. While Shroyer, Edwards, and potentially Sawvel are a bust, I’m not sure it’s all on him. My only criticism of him as the AD is that he isn’t patient with a process or a search when there are openings. I think he jumps to solve the issue with a quick fix rather than setting up a process to find the right person. His way has worked probably better than half the time, but when it doesn’t, it’s BAD.
Oh, I think it is 100% on him. He makes the hires, and has failed miserably, no exceptions whatsoever in his tenure. Shyatt? Maybe - but that was a 1 year flash in the pan. All other, LMFAO.

Dickface - failure
Schroyer - major failure
Bohl - 50/50 is mediocre, but no conference championships, and only 1 whiff
Edwards - major failure
Linder - major failure
Sawvel - major failure

That is 6 hires in the 2 highest and most attended sports at UW, in his 18 years. Fire that man. Now.

And he fired McClain because their wives didn't get along...seriously.
 
Oh, I think it is 100% on him. He makes the hires, and has failed miserably, no exceptions whatsoever in his tenure. Shyatt? Maybe - but that was a 1 year flash in the pan. All other, LMFAO.

Dickface - failure
Schroyer - major failure
Bohl - 50/50 is mediocre, but no conference championships, and only 1 whiff
Edwards - major failure
Linder - major failure
Sawvel - major failure

That is 6 hires in the 2 highest and most attended sports at UW, in his 18 years. Fire that man. Now.

And he fired McClain because their wives didn't get along...seriously.
The only adjustment I would make is that Shyatt 2 (98-69 and 37-47) was less than the success rate of Bohl in the MWC. Therefore I would categorize him in the 50-50 range in large part due to the one season with the tournament championship.

His 5 year stint felt good compared to the Schroyer shit show but he was 37-47 in MWC play in stint 2. With his peak year he did get us to a 4th place in conference with the only over .500 conference finish. What made him glorious was the conference tournament championship and a loss to Northern Iowa in the NCAA where the team was embarrassingly pummeled. What followed that was a weak roster peaking under Edwards with a CBI championship before totally tanking.

In Shyatt’s career as a head coach he only had 2 seasons with a winning record in conference (both at UW). His real record was covered up by weak OOC schedules where he had seasons like a 13-0 start before going 7-14 to finish in 2012-13.

It’s a sad commentary when Bohl and Shyatt are placed on the highest pedestals of success but when mediocrity is the measure of success at Wyoming then those guys tipped the scales favorably a couple of times. We might as well give Linder a 50-50 for his 63-49 (30-38) and one NCAA appearance.

Wyoming - where mediocrity is succes!
 
It’s a sad commentary when Bohl and Shyatt are placed on the highest pedestals of success but when mediocrity is the measure of success at Wyoming then those guys tipped the scales favorably a couple of times. We might as well give Linder a 50-50 for his 63-49 (30-38) and one NCAA appearance.

Wyoming - where mediocrity is success!
Truer words...
 
Oh, I think it is 100% on him. He makes the hires, and has failed miserably, no exceptions whatsoever in his tenure. Shyatt? Maybe - but that was a 1 year flash in the pan. All other, LMFAO.

Dickface - failure
Schroyer - major failure
Bohl - 50/50 is mediocre, but no conference championships, and only 1 whiff
Edwards - major failure
Linder - major failure
Sawvel - major failure

That is 6 hires in the 2 highest and most attended sports at UW, in his 18 years. Fire that man. Now.

And he fired McClain because their wives didn't get along...seriously.
Linder did get us to the NCAAT (but only finished 5th? in the conference). But he crashed and burned harder and faster than any coach I've ever seen. So yes, ultimately a failure
 
Well, unless a booster wants to pay several millions to buy out contracts, Burman kind of has to live with this decision for 2 years. We don’t have the luxury of just firing someone without breaking the bank and with the freedom caucus waiting to cut funding altogether for UW, we’re really screwed. I had high hopes for Sawvel, but I started to question everything once Bohl Jr. was promoted to DC. The timing of everything has Craig’s influence all over how the dominoes fell in my opinion. I think he knew exactly what was in the cupboard after Peasley, he couldn’t find another hidden gem like Allen running his pro style offense in this new era of college football, and he knew the defense was going to have a weak secondary. So he waited until December to announce retirement, knowing that a coaching search would be difficult and that he would offer his insight to who should take the reins. Hmmmm, hire the DC…that leaves an opening for his boy to get a promotion. Coincidence? At this point, mass defections might not have been all that bad if it would have meant hiring someone with actual head coaching experience! Woulda, coulda, shoulda…
Bottom line, the Pokes won several games last year by luck, so the 9-4 argument is sort of moot to me.
I am so tired of Burman's spin on everything. It's painfully obvious because he has been in the job too long. For example, there was an article in a preseason publication about how "tough" Wyoming was and how we had built the program. The publication still forecast a 6-6 record, but it was obvious that Thorburn had written the article because it was the same "spin" we see on everything else. Burman has so little clue on the nuances of the games or sports and is so unengaged with the actual coaches that it's just his MO to keep putting a spin on everything as opposed to just winning.
 
I'm willing to cut Burman a bit of slack. First, Christenson got us to 2 bowl games in his first 3 years and year 3 was pretty damn good (8-4). Yeah, ultimately, it didn't work. But it wasn't evident immediately like it was with Schroyer and Edwards. Even with Linder, it looked good for the first few years. Plus, Linder took a horrible program (Northern Colorado) and made them winners. At least the hire made sense.

Hiring from within and keeping the wrong guy, Sawvel instead of Polasek, is just a double whiff. I don't remember Schroyer's buyout. But he got extended after a losing season in the conference and then was fired during the season less than 2 years later. The base probably wasn't that high but it must have been 3-4 years of base to remove him. I don't even give Burman credit for firing him. The AA was so empty that the lost revenue drove him to do it. I suspect that is what it is going to take for Sawvel to be fired - empty seats. And all the good weather in the world isn't going to fill the stands with today's ticket and concession prices.
 
I'm willing to cut Burman a bit of slack. First, Christenson got us to 2 bowl games in his first 3 years and year 3 was pretty damn good (8-4). Yeah, ultimately, it didn't work. But it wasn't evident immediately like it was with Schroyer and Edwards. Even with Linder, it looked good for the first few years. Plus, Linder took a horrible program (Northern Colorado) and made them winners. At least the hire made sense.

Hiring from within and keeping the wrong guy, Sawvel instead of Polasek, is just a double whiff. I don't remember Schroyer's buyout. But he got extended after a losing season in the conference and then was fired during the season less than 2 years later. The base probably wasn't that high but it must have been 3-4 years of base to remove him. I don't even give Burman credit for firing him. The AA was so empty that the lost revenue drove him to do it. I suspect that is what it is going to take for Sawvel to be fired - empty seats. And all the good weather in the world isn't going to fill the stands with today's ticket and concession prices.
Not that it means a whole lot, but I think Polasek really wanted the NDSU job. Closer to family, etc..
 

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