WestWYOPoke wrote:McPeachy wrote:kansasCowboy wrote:...but I'm starting to think Wyoming is over anyone's head...
Ouch!
It wasn't over Erickson's, Roach's, Tiller's, or Dimel's head. It certainly - clearly - was over Vic's. I think Glenn's demise was his OC, and he was too loyal, too late. Glenn didn't have the budget either (that Dickface was given). Dickface was clearly all ego and attitude...a recipe for disaster from day 1 (that should have been sniffed out in the interview process).
Now, we have 'ol Bohly...and the jury is still out (unfortunately). Gotta give him 4 more though - if he can get through to his coordinators (or make changes). If not, he needs to call Burman up, so they can arrange to help each other pack their poop.
Jack Graham hired McElwain with a goal in mind. He bumped the salary from Fairchild by double, increased the assistant salary pool by almost double, increased the recruiting budget by 6 figures, and was hell bent on making those green and gold turds winners. And it worked. Compare that to UW and Burman.
Erickson, Roach, Tiller, and even Dimel, were coaches in a completely different landscape of college football. The world of D-1A (FBS) football has changed so much just in the last 20 years, that it's like comparing apples to oranges.
I DO think that Wyoming can be a winner again, but there is no way it will happen in a 2-3 year span. UW is a school now that success will take a large chunk of time to achieve. IMO,
best case scenario is a 4-5 year turnaround. This is why firing someone after 4 years is jumping the gun as they will need that time, plus some, to show if they can be succesful in Laramie or not.
To put it succinctly, if you want immediate results, go watch the SEC. If you want to see Wyo return to success, hunker down, wait and see; it won't happen overnight, but if it does, it will take a few years.
For years I've preached giving coaches more time. I've debated and brought up hall of fame coaches that took 6 + years of losing records before they even seen a hint of success in their career. Why do I think WYO will not make it? Because before we give Bohl that opportunity, we will get rid of him. Wyo is impatient. I said it about Koenning, he wasn't a great coach, but by year three instead of losing by blowouts, like the previous two years, even though he went 2-10, the majority of those losses were by less than a TD. He had major improvement. We tossed him before he could truly have a chance at succeeding. Bohl is right there with Koenning right now, and after 13 years everyone is finally saying, "he needs time. Give him 4-8 years." And even though fans are starting to buy in to the "taking time" idea, will Burman or UW? Burman will want to save his ass, as he somehow has his entire career.
Glenn got six years and DC got five. I know DC coached half ass his last year because he already knew the nail was in the coffin for him, you could hear it in his postgame interviews. He didn't care about that last year. "I know we were on the wrong end of the score at the end of this one, but it sure was a fun one to coach..." DC after losing in a shootout after SJSU. The year before we had injuries out the ass on O and D, which stymied us on the win side and we limped to 4-8. 4-8. After just coming off 8-5 and a bowl game. And he is at risk after one down year after getting us to a bowl? What coach would want that?
Bohl should get a year four barring him not matching or having one more win than last year. And the. He gets a tough OOC schedule next year with probably less talent star wise. We will be out our two top wrs. Our top TE. Probably Hill and Wick. And that's just the O side. Who do we have to replace these guys?
Overstreet? Evans? Neither have rushed for over 100 yards in their career. What about wideouts? Parker? Johnson? Mayfield? Pretty sure their numbers are quite minimal as well. This year we are relying on these go to guys to get it done. What happens in year four when even those guys couldn't get it done this year? Will everyone finally lose patience? Seems like an average of 2,000 fans already have considering we only average 18k this year at home. If that number drops, even more this year, that will be a big problem for Bohl.
So, will UW and its fanbase have patience. Or will Bohl just be the next guy tossed, before he even got any real momentum?
16 years. 16 years and we keep losing because we toss coaches before they can even try to turn things around.