Disclaimer I was a chemistry major not a math major, I don't believe i made any mistakes but if I did sorry
I respect your guys opinions, but the fact is, as you all know, Wyoming has had very little sustained success since D1 split into A and D1AA in 1978. Especially the time most of us were in school. I grew up with great/decent teams during the late 80's and most of the 90's. We had several years of sustained success I'll give you that. We also had three great seasons in those 33 years, reaching double digits in those seasons. Add that to the one 9 win season and the three 8 win season in our 33 years at the D1A level you have 7 really good years out of 33. If you what to count 7 win seasons as good seasons then we also have had 5 of those. If you get really desperate and count 6 win seasons as good seasons then we have had another 6. so 18 out of 33 seasons have been decent to great that's about 55% of the time. Or 10% (3 out of 33)of the time having great seasons.
2000's 45-85
1990's 63-47
1980's 67-51
1978 & 1979 9-15
Total: 184-198 D1 A record This doesn't look that bad especially considering the last ten years. A almost respectiful .48 winning percentage. If you do subtract the around 17 wins against FCS/D1aa schools (which none of you consider as real football) the number drops.
if you take out the 2000's the record 139-113 which is a much more encouraging .55 win percentage. If Wyoming could return to the ways of the pre 2000's it would be awesome.
That being said I think college football has changed drastically in those 15 years, and I dont know if we can be competitive at this level, I honestly don't. And in the fact of sincerely being sick of the direction of Major college football and the lure of actually playing on a level playing field I hope you can see my point of view of at least pondering wither we should play FCS instead. I am not completely convinced either way, but I certainly have a open mind.