While the timing may be off for the game and the ticket sales may be lower than expected, I am quite excited to head to Albucracky on Friday. Not only did we beat CSU this year, I get the added bonus of a bowl game...Christmas came early. The opponent isn't exactly earth-shattering in terms of excitement (although I think they are good, I just never get too wound up about Fresno State), but it really does not matter. We are in a bowl and it feels like something really, really cool is building in Laramie.
We hear of winning recruiting battles with Utah. We see recruits being upgraded. Sure we have lost a couple of recruits too, but the overall trend is VERY encouraging. We hear our current guys talking about the system and how it changed the complexion of the year for the better. We didn't hemorage turnovers. We see new luxury boxes being built (almost burned down, but built none-the-less). It is great (and going to be even greater in the future) to be a Cowboy football fan.
In terms of next year, I like the way the schedule sets up, in terms of our home games. We have away games with down (at least in the context of this year) teams like UNLV and New Mexico and with the teams we likely won't beat for a while (home or away, so it almost is better to have them on the road) like TCU, BYU and Texas. Conversely, we have home games with Utah, AFA, CSU, BSU and SDSU - all winnable games IMHO. This of course, makes no mention of the other teams on our schedule, like Southern Utah and Toledo, which are winnable too. Sure we have some holes to fill, but we have a core group (finally including a QB) around which we can build and some JUCOs that, given DC's and JCintherock's assessments, could be immediate game changers for our offense. All in all, this year is a foretaste of the feast to come (for all of you Lutherans out there). The clouds are building on the horizon for the rest of the conference...and I for one, am glad I will be in New Mexico to see the Phoenix make another step out of the ashes.
We hear of winning recruiting battles with Utah. We see recruits being upgraded. Sure we have lost a couple of recruits too, but the overall trend is VERY encouraging. We hear our current guys talking about the system and how it changed the complexion of the year for the better. We didn't hemorage turnovers. We see new luxury boxes being built (almost burned down, but built none-the-less). It is great (and going to be even greater in the future) to be a Cowboy football fan.
In terms of next year, I like the way the schedule sets up, in terms of our home games. We have away games with down (at least in the context of this year) teams like UNLV and New Mexico and with the teams we likely won't beat for a while (home or away, so it almost is better to have them on the road) like TCU, BYU and Texas. Conversely, we have home games with Utah, AFA, CSU, BSU and SDSU - all winnable games IMHO. This of course, makes no mention of the other teams on our schedule, like Southern Utah and Toledo, which are winnable too. Sure we have some holes to fill, but we have a core group (finally including a QB) around which we can build and some JUCOs that, given DC's and JCintherock's assessments, could be immediate game changers for our offense. All in all, this year is a foretaste of the feast to come (for all of you Lutherans out there). The clouds are building on the horizon for the rest of the conference...and I for one, am glad I will be in New Mexico to see the Phoenix make another step out of the ashes.
