OC.....

[Midwest Cowboy]

I believe Sawvell's strategy is to keep the opponent's offense on the field as long as possible to wear them out. It also keeps our offense fresh and ready for the final two minutes. It is a unique Rocky Balboa-esque type strategy and one that Sawvell and his staff have perfected.

 

[BigHorn]

Well shit. That option is off the table.

I seriously doubt that Sawvel is going after the same OC candidates as CU.

 

[Bear Claw]

Watching Texas Tech playing today, I am wondering why UW never uses an air raid offense? They would obviously need a capable quarterback at the helm. I’m thinking at 7220, UW would be able to wear teams out quickly.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

Watching Texas Tech playing today, I am wondering why UW never uses an air raid offense? They would obviously need a capable quarterback at the helm. I’m thinking at 7220, UW would be able to wear teams out quickly.

Do you see Texas Tech’s line? They spend A LOT of money on that offense.

 

[Bear Claw]

Do you see Texas Tech’s line? They spend A LOT of money on that offense.

The point was to run an offense that makes the best use of the only advantage we have: altitude. Running twice up the middle and then a screen or flare pass does not do that.

 

[The Juice]

I love the wish lists our fanbase comes up with for coaches every year. Yes, a well-known up and comer with no current Wyoming ties that has decades of experience producing top tier offenses would be a GREAT choice.

The problem that so many people seem to ignore is that we are going to have to hire someone who actually wants to be here and not somewhere else. That typically involves a Wyoming tie, or someone not super well known, or someone with not a ton of experience....

 

[cowpoke pride]

I love the wish lists our fanbase comes up with for coaches every year. Yes, a well-known up and comer with no current Wyoming ties that has decades of experience producing top tier offenses would be a GREAT choice.

The problem that so many people seem to ignore is that we are going to have to hire someone who actually wants to be here and not somewhere else. That typically involves a Wyoming tie, or someone not super well known, or someone with not a ton of experience....

Why wouldn't everyone want to come to The Mecca of college football?

 

[BigO4WYO]

Why wouldn't everyone want to come to The Mecca of college football?

For a lame duck coach

 

[ragtimejoe1]

2026 season will go the way of this hire and who the transfers are. If PBJ pulls a rabbit out of his hat and hires a good oc (and gives him the offensive reigns), there's a chance. The oc needs to be given leverage to hire his position coaches and needs to be connected for transfers.

The wrong hire or insufficient transfer talent will result in similar results. If PBJ gets the right people, the schedule is weak enough to get him to 2027.

 

[BigO4WYO]

2026 season will go the way of this hire and who the transfers are. If PBJ pulls a rabbit out of his hat and hires a good oc (and gives him the offensive reigns), there's a chance. The oc needs to be given leverage to hire his position coaches and needs to be connected for transfers.

The wrong hire or insufficient transfer talent will result in similar results. If PBJ gets the right people, the schedule is weak enough to get him to 2027.

An FCS OC that brings a QB with him maybe

 

[ragtimejoe1]

An FCS OC that brings a QB with him maybe

Maybe. Like @The Juice said, we are in a bit of tough spot. Top to bottom, we have a hugely inexperienced staff and it shows. Up and coming guys a lot of times want a more established system that they can also learn from. Most people we should hire will have more appeal as a hc than PBJ who was not on anyone's radar. As @McPeachy said in another thread, will PBJ's ego allow him to hire someone who would be better at the hc job than he is?

If we have to limit it to someone who has less credentials to be hc than PBJ, then, yeah, we're probably looking at a mid-career or younger FCS coordinator. If PBJ is able to hire above him, then there are some older FBS coordinators that have networks (that's why I'm interested in Chad Morris--I think he could get some TX transfers).

This is actually a pretty big moment for WYO Football and PBJ's career.

 

[PorkerPoke]

Wyoming is trying to do a partial revamp with damages in the significant level. We all know hiring Sawful wasn’t handled correctly to begin with.

You take UNM hiring Bronco Mendenhal who brought staff with him who knew what they were doing. He got UNM started before jumping into the dumpster fire at Utah State and bringing them to life in one season. Eck comes to UNM and brings in his experienced staff and the players to run the system building on what Bronco started.

Wyoming took a solid base that needed some serious shoring up in many areas and instead implemented disorganized chaos with a don’t know how to run the show head coach who has to be forced each year to examine the obvious failure areas.

The damage is done. I am skeptical that there won’t be some kind of control issues which will make the OC hire like another Mastakis or whatever the guys name was.

So what if Wyoming gets a hot shot coach who is gone after a year or two of success. The last word is key - success. Hire the next one like Utah State seems to do. Being a stepping stone is ok. I don’t think there are very many top coaches who are so into trout and walleye fishing they want to spend an indefinite time in Laramie with playing pool at Buds the other option to fill an empty evening.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

This is actually a pretty big moment for WYO Football and PBJ's career.

I don't see it as a big moment for WYO football at all. I see it as a bridge hire so that we can field a team next year.

There just aren't a lot of examples of head coaches being internally promoted, keeping the roster intact from the prior successful season, turning that same 9 win team into garbage over the next 2 years...and then miraculously coming back to be a great head coach and winning program. In fact, I can't think of a single example.

Sawvel is set for life with the money he was able to convince Burman to give him at Wyoming's expense. Like Koenning, I am sure he can resurrect his career as a defensive position coach (probably in the secondary) somewhere else in FBS or a defensive coordinator position in FCS. Worst case for him, he gets paid to go coach a semi-professional team in Poland but then gets fired at the job for poor performance during the middle of the season ala Dave Christensen.

 

[PorkerPoke]

I don't see it as a big moment for WYO football at all. I see it as a bridge hire so that we can field a team next year.

There just aren't a lot of examples of head coaches being internally promoted, keeping the roster intact from the prior successful season, turning that same 9 win team into garbage over the next 2 years...and then miraculously coming back to be a great head coach and winning program. In fact, I can't think of a single example.

Sawvel is set for life with the money he was able to convince Burman to give him at Wyoming's expense. Like Koenning, I am sure he can resurrect his career as a defensive position coach (probably in the secondary) somewhere else in FBS or a defensive coordinator position in FCS. Worst case for him, he gets paid to go coach a semi-professional team in Poland but then gets fired at the job for poor performance during the middle of the season ala Dave Christensen.

Sad but true. I won’t say it is completely impossible but it’s extremely unlikely.

 

[ragtimejoe1]

I don't see it as a big moment for WYO football at all. I see it as a bridge hire so that we can field a team next year.

There just aren't a lot of examples of head coaches being internally promoted, keeping the roster intact from the prior successful season, turning that same 9 win team into garbage over the next 2 years...and then miraculously coming back to be a great head coach and winning program. In fact, I can't think of a single example.

Sawvel is set for life with the money he was able to convince Burman to give him at Wyoming's expense. Like Koenning, I am sure he can resurrect his career as a defensive position coach (probably in the secondary) somewhere else in FBS or a defensive coordinator position in FCS. Worst case for him, he gets paid to go coach a semi-professional team in Poland but then gets fired at the job for poor performance during the middle of the season ala Dave Christensen.

The defense is adequate for next year's schedule if they maintain that level.

The right coordinator and transfers on O will get the POKES to a bowl. Burman and @DamThatRiver22 will use that as vindication and PBJ gets another year minimum. Burman and PBJ probably get extensions, lol. Seriously though, imo, this is a big hire to set the tone in the new MWC. A good qb and O coordinator will go a long ways to making pbj look better.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

The defense is adequate for next year's schedule if they maintain that level.

The right coordinator and transfers on O will get the POKES to a bowl. Burman and @DamThatRiver22 will use that as vindication and PBJ gets another year minimum. Burman and PBJ probably get extensions, lol. Seriously though, imo, this is a big hire to set the tone in the new MWC. A good qb and O coordinator will go a long ways to making pbj look better.

We are playing quite possibly the worst schedule in FBS next season (certainly the worst schedule Wyoming has ever faced). That said...I can see Wyoming going 5-7 next year, getting a bowl game because of multiple 'opt-outs' (see 5-7 Rice and App State) and then Burman promoting that fact to extend himself and Sawvel.

 

[Bear Claw]

Rumor has it they will hire Mitch Borowski. Mitch Borowski is the assistant OC at St. Mary’s Girl School for the Visually Impaired. This school’s football team currently has a 0-516 record. Mitch was a 3rd string backup guard on Jay Sawful’s 7th grade football team. Mitch and Jay were best friends until Mitch didn’t make the JV team in high school. Jay always felt bad about that and wants to hire his old friend as a good well gesture and a chance to rekindle their relationship. This hire could be the spark the UW football team has been desperately seeking to reach the upper echelon of the new MWC.

 

[PorkerPoke]

Rumor has it they will hire Mitch Borowski. Mitch Borowski is the assistant OC at St. Mary’s Girl School for the Visually Impaired. This school’s football team currently has a 0-516 record. Mitch was a 3rd string backup guard on Jay Sawful’s 7th grade football team. Mitch and Jay were best friends until Mitch didn’t make the JV team in high school. Jay always felt bad about that and wants to hire his old friend as a good well gesture and a chance to rekindle their relationship. This hire could be the spark the UW football team has been desperately seeking to reach the upper echelon of the new MWC.

That’s funny.

I have to reveal that Sawful is also considering his long time rival Woody Beeter. Woody has been known to have a stroke of genius calling for an open fly route at just the right time and his success seems to keep coming in spurts.