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Vote for Burman's worst decision (or lack of)!!

What was the one decision or lack of decision that you think should have cost Burman his job at WYO?

  • Hiring, Extending, and then Firing The Slick Haired Shyster

    Votes: 4 28.6%
  • Hiring, Extending, and then Firing Dickface (and allowing a uniform disaster to occur)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Hiring Sawful, and doing nothing about it for 3+ years

    Votes: 5 35.7%
  • Giving away a Home game to play AT CSewe fall 2026

    Votes: 1 7.1%
  • The half-assed AA remodel

    Votes: 3 21.4%
  • Reseating disaster of the AA / War

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The odd unfinished Wildcatter edges of the War

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • The decision to move tailgate indoors, so the team can't use the IPF on gameday / day before

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Hiring and keeping the entire CJC staff in tact

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Letting Lindor off the hook with Texas Tech

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • Total voters
    14

McPeachy

Well-known member
There are so many choices to put in this poll, unfortunately WyoNation only allows for 10 responses, or the list would likely grow to 25 or more. Sorry if I missed any of the most important ones!
 
For me, it’s either the Schroyer debacle or the Sawvel hire. I ended up voting for Schroyer, but if Sawvel has another crap year and they keep him around for another year, I would change my vote.

Schroyer actually had a lower winning percentage than Allen Edwards did. Pretty unbelievable given how bad Edwards was.
 
What is the CJC staff in tact? Did I miss something with that?
No, not really...just that he hired Welniak to replace Rebholz and kept the entire (pretty much) inept staff in place...some of which have been doing the same lack of enthusiastic or impactful work for more than 15 years!
 
For me, it’s either the Schroyer debacle or the Sawvel hire. I ended up voting for Schroyer, but if Sawvel has another crap year and they keep him around for another year, I would change my vote.

Schroyer actually had a lower winning percentage than Allen Edwards did. Pretty unbelievable given how bad Edwards was.
The basketball hiring (Schroyer, Shyatt, Edwards) until Linder. Linder was a good hire until the NIL deal and his dealings with the California recruiting. Sorry to the Shyatt fans but he was a 46% conference winner. Those are the games that energize the fan base not the Peru State and Johnson Wales games to get to 20 wins.
 
For me it was easily the Schroyer hire. It was the first of many bad decisions which snowballed into finding ourselves at the bottom of the conference in almost every category. I was done with the guy after the Schroyer debacle as it was obvious how clueless he was. And after 20 years I can still say the same about Burman, clueless. Some people grow into their job, but not him.
 
My vote is caveated. Hiring Sawvel and giving him a fully guaranteed contract with no prior head coaching experience and no known suitors was the worst.

Promoting Sawvel to head coach was at least a defensible decision at the time. But it should have been a prove it contract. Hamstringing the football program with the contract that was given to him was lunacy.

But overall, on Burman’s watch, Wyoming is headed to an absolute irrelevancy in an abomination of a conference.
 
My vote would be for all the above. I voted for the Sawful decision. Mainly, because it’s still fresh and hurting. Not looking forward to watching another year of ineptitude while Burman and Sawful rake in big time cash.
 
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