Cowboy fans:
I joined here when my son committed and have mostly just been a lurker, save for a few posts here and there. However, I’ve decided it’s time to terminate my membership as I have come to believe this is not the best place for a parent to be…and prospective recruits too for that matter. But before I do, I thought I’d leave you all with a few thoughts.
First and foremost, you all are fans and have a passion for WYO and that is a great thing! Your collective love and interest in the program is undoubtedly why you are here. I’m a military man and I fight for and believe in your 1st amendment right to say and write what you please. With that said, it is also the right of readers to react as they see fit by what is written and said. Remember when Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks was feuding with Toby Keith and said she was ashamed of the President? She was well within her right to say so. However, the music buying public was well within their right to stop buying Dixie Chicks albums and to publicly dump all their CD’s in the trash and in front of tractors, etc. I’m not sure we’ve heard from the Dixie Chicks since. Point here is be careful what you write and wish for and to understand that the fallout can have far different consequences than one intended. I’m not sure where I’d be as a WYO recruit or parent of a WYO recruit if I was lurking on here since September.
It’s easy to say “take what you read on here with a grain of salt” as UzbekPoke posted to me when I came on board. I can and have as I’m old enough to know better. But I’m not so sure that today’s young people (recruits), who are way more informedia (my new word, like it?) savvy than any of us older folks, aren’t being swayed by the stuff (unsubstantiated rumors, speculation, and vitriol among other things) that is being said on here. If you happen to be a recruit or parent of a recruit and are reading this, this is one guy who believes in the coach and the process and is 100% sure that the future is bright.
Second, football is less a game of X’s and O’s then it is of Jimmy’s and Joe’s. My favorite posts are the ones that somehow 10 games in our freshmen are miraculously somehow not freshmen anymore. Last time I checked, Carl Granderson’s pants still bunch up just as they did in September. Have you ever seen skin tight football pants bunch up on a player before? Injury, transfers, quitting and depth (or lack thereof) thrust Carl and others on to the field earlier than the coaches would’ve liked. My recollection of the signing day press conference was that Carl was going to redshirt because “you can’t see him when he stands sideways”. Carl will be great and will probably be at least 30 or 40lbs heavier next season; other freshmen will make similar gains.
Did anyone think Pete Carroll was a good coach before he had Carson Palmer at USC followed by Leinart, Bush, White, etc.? At Seattle he got Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch, and that incredible defensive backfield. Did anyone think Bill Belichick was a good coach before he got Tom Brady and an incredible organization run by Mr. Kraft? How ‘bout McCartney down in Boulder who recently said on the 30 for 30 film “we can’t win without the great black athlete”? When he successfully got the recruits he wanted, they became national championship contenders.
Here in the Denver area, Mullen HS in 2013 was reeling from Dave Logan’s departure. They hired a new coach and they were forced to play several freshmen; they went 3-7. In 2014 when they were sophomores, they went 4-6. This year as juniors they are 7-3; the 3 losses were to the overall #1 seed in the state playoffs and 2 other perennial powerhouse programs. They are still alive in the playoffs and I believe they will be legitimate state championship contenders next season when those same players are bigger, stronger, and faster seniors; this isn’t rocket science, the players and the coach haven’t changed.
I could go on and on, but our problems are more about Jimmy’s and Joe’s. We are very young and inexperienced and we lack depth. Let coach and staff recruit a few more classes and let those kids spend time with Duval before you show him the door. There are some very good young players on this team and there are some very good players that are currently redshirted.
The number of seniors that actually see the field should more than double in size next year and juniors to be Hill, Cummings, Allen, Van Maanen, and Priester, will be among the most experienced “gray hairs” of this team next year. We will see significant improvement next and future years. Contrary to some other threads on here, CB is a proven coach who has a sterling record against P5 competition.
No football program can survive without loyal fans. At my alma mater, the fans have had every reason to bail starting with the hiring of Bill Callahan and continuing through this season…a season that will probably go down as the worst season since Coach Devaney took over in the early ‘60s. Yet there they are, 95K strong every Saturday. There will be 95K in the seats next year the week after WYO goes in and shocks the world too!! I challenge each and every one of you to find your inner Cowboy and support these kids and this coach through thick and thin– they need you now more than ever!
Thanks for allowing me this chance and for your support of my son and all the other sons on this team.
I joined here when my son committed and have mostly just been a lurker, save for a few posts here and there. However, I’ve decided it’s time to terminate my membership as I have come to believe this is not the best place for a parent to be…and prospective recruits too for that matter. But before I do, I thought I’d leave you all with a few thoughts.
First and foremost, you all are fans and have a passion for WYO and that is a great thing! Your collective love and interest in the program is undoubtedly why you are here. I’m a military man and I fight for and believe in your 1st amendment right to say and write what you please. With that said, it is also the right of readers to react as they see fit by what is written and said. Remember when Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks was feuding with Toby Keith and said she was ashamed of the President? She was well within her right to say so. However, the music buying public was well within their right to stop buying Dixie Chicks albums and to publicly dump all their CD’s in the trash and in front of tractors, etc. I’m not sure we’ve heard from the Dixie Chicks since. Point here is be careful what you write and wish for and to understand that the fallout can have far different consequences than one intended. I’m not sure where I’d be as a WYO recruit or parent of a WYO recruit if I was lurking on here since September.
It’s easy to say “take what you read on here with a grain of salt” as UzbekPoke posted to me when I came on board. I can and have as I’m old enough to know better. But I’m not so sure that today’s young people (recruits), who are way more informedia (my new word, like it?) savvy than any of us older folks, aren’t being swayed by the stuff (unsubstantiated rumors, speculation, and vitriol among other things) that is being said on here. If you happen to be a recruit or parent of a recruit and are reading this, this is one guy who believes in the coach and the process and is 100% sure that the future is bright.
Second, football is less a game of X’s and O’s then it is of Jimmy’s and Joe’s. My favorite posts are the ones that somehow 10 games in our freshmen are miraculously somehow not freshmen anymore. Last time I checked, Carl Granderson’s pants still bunch up just as they did in September. Have you ever seen skin tight football pants bunch up on a player before? Injury, transfers, quitting and depth (or lack thereof) thrust Carl and others on to the field earlier than the coaches would’ve liked. My recollection of the signing day press conference was that Carl was going to redshirt because “you can’t see him when he stands sideways”. Carl will be great and will probably be at least 30 or 40lbs heavier next season; other freshmen will make similar gains.
Did anyone think Pete Carroll was a good coach before he had Carson Palmer at USC followed by Leinart, Bush, White, etc.? At Seattle he got Russell Wilson, Marshawn Lynch, and that incredible defensive backfield. Did anyone think Bill Belichick was a good coach before he got Tom Brady and an incredible organization run by Mr. Kraft? How ‘bout McCartney down in Boulder who recently said on the 30 for 30 film “we can’t win without the great black athlete”? When he successfully got the recruits he wanted, they became national championship contenders.
Here in the Denver area, Mullen HS in 2013 was reeling from Dave Logan’s departure. They hired a new coach and they were forced to play several freshmen; they went 3-7. In 2014 when they were sophomores, they went 4-6. This year as juniors they are 7-3; the 3 losses were to the overall #1 seed in the state playoffs and 2 other perennial powerhouse programs. They are still alive in the playoffs and I believe they will be legitimate state championship contenders next season when those same players are bigger, stronger, and faster seniors; this isn’t rocket science, the players and the coach haven’t changed.
I could go on and on, but our problems are more about Jimmy’s and Joe’s. We are very young and inexperienced and we lack depth. Let coach and staff recruit a few more classes and let those kids spend time with Duval before you show him the door. There are some very good young players on this team and there are some very good players that are currently redshirted.
The number of seniors that actually see the field should more than double in size next year and juniors to be Hill, Cummings, Allen, Van Maanen, and Priester, will be among the most experienced “gray hairs” of this team next year. We will see significant improvement next and future years. Contrary to some other threads on here, CB is a proven coach who has a sterling record against P5 competition.
No football program can survive without loyal fans. At my alma mater, the fans have had every reason to bail starting with the hiring of Bill Callahan and continuing through this season…a season that will probably go down as the worst season since Coach Devaney took over in the early ‘60s. Yet there they are, 95K strong every Saturday. There will be 95K in the seats next year the week after WYO goes in and shocks the world too!! I challenge each and every one of you to find your inner Cowboy and support these kids and this coach through thick and thin– they need you now more than ever!
Thanks for allowing me this chance and for your support of my son and all the other sons on this team.
