… featured in a recent YouTube that went way viral, you know your school has a lot to be proud of. Dave Christensen remains the coach at the University of Wyoming because… well, you saw the video. You don’t let a man like that go. Precious. Plus, under Christensen, Wyoming “struggles finding victories against opponents with a pulse”!
With all that as background, you can understand why Wyoming’s president has just gone public with his love of Wyoming football. In a heartfelt column in the “news” section of the university’s website (UD is unsure why the president’s love letter is “news”), President Number One Fan says nothing about Coach Fuck You Fuck You Fuck You, Opposing Coach, for Beating Us and nothing about the team’s problem with pulsating opponents. What excites him instead is the way football at Wyoming inculcates a
drive to succeed, good work ethic, sense of responsibility, knowing how to win and how to lose, skill in planning, understanding the rules of a game, treating others including competitors with respect, ethical behavior toward others, knowing how to work with teammates, and so forth.
Is President Sternberg being ironic?
UD doesn’t think so.
August 26th, 2013 at 3:58PM
Not to excuse what the WY coach did, but the background is that his team was playing Air Force. AF has a habit of teaching their offensive linemen to “cut” block, or to go for an opponents legs when making a block. The reason is that AF has far smaller, but quicker, more agile players, who use their athletic advantage to get to an opposing player’s legs more quickly, and often hitting or striking that players knees. Having known a few college football players who had to go up against AF, many were enraged at the tactic, as were their coaching staffs. Teams hate playing AF and Navy, for the same reason. But you need to address that in other ways, rather than the outburst exhibited by the WY coach.