NMSU and UTEP have better coaches than Wyoming
First, there is the assumption that Burman CAN learn. Over his tenure, he has shown to make the same mistakes over and over again. Heath Shroyer, Alan Edwards...Dave Christensen, Joe Glenn (hell of a hype man...not so much a coach...) He did get Craig Bohl that promised championships, but only got close 1 year out of 10 with no conference titles. This latest move by Burman in hiring Sawvel was lazy, playing scared, and having NO vision for the future of Wyoming Athletics. Has he put Wyoming in a position for success with the bread winners in athletics?? Not that I can see.
Waylee one of the first to enter…….
It’s going to be bad offseason and probably a much worse season next year if that’s even possible. We are actually graduating a big class of starters. We are one of the most senior laden depth charts in the country. But I don’t think we have a ton of transfers just based on the fact that not many of our players with eligibility remaining would have FBS landing spots (outside of Waylee, Gyllenborg, Siders and Harsh).
Women’s soccer just beat a ranked team. Volleyball has an exciting roster. Wrestling brought in some good looking transfers. Basketball will at least have a coach worth rooting for but unlikely to be competitive in the MWC this year.
If history repeats itself, we are in for some truly awful football for at least 3 years. By then, the program will need a miracle type rebuild just to make us competitive in 2029. Thanks Tom!
You are right .. no need for an essay. It's not complicated. Burman hires bad coaches.
He does "okay" when he goes outside of the UW connections and just follows what the service or guy with the most success at the Big Sky school is. It's when it gets involved with the coach having a previous connection or existing connection with UW that is a disaster. Bohl, Shyatt, Linder, CHristensen being "okay". When these guys are already assistants or previous assistants at UW it's been a disaster --- Edwards, Schroyer, Sawvel. He seems to be to easily swayed by the prior coaches recomendation, which is inherently biased. You would think he would have a better idea of these former assistants given that they are in the same facilities that he is. For example when Dabo Swinney was hired at Clemson, the then AD a guy by the name of Phillips said he used to walk by the offices of the assistant coaches or go into the offices and he could see how the players just radiated toward Swinney, they were all in his office and he knew Swinney could connect with the kids better than anybody else. Burman has not shown to have been able to provide that sort of incite or sense of how players are reacting to assistant coaches and how these guys would do as head coaches.
I suppose "okay" in terms of what success has meant at UW...Like I see that Glenn and DC are better than Koenning but that level of coach waking in the door today probably doesn't move the needle.
Not being snotty or condescending here, but who really cares if the players on this particular UW team transfer? We will likely end up with either 1 or 2 wins total. Transfer away I say, we need a total refresh!
Many of these players were part of a 9 win team last year. With even semi competent play at QB, we would be 3-3. I would hope that the horrible teams that Bohl put on the field his first 2 years are not part of our future. I guess it's a mute point because Sawvel will be here at least through next year. So we might get a total refresh next year (player wise) and probably another 1 or 2 win season.
That is the real question. What happened to the returning players from that 9 win season?
