Rants & Raves: San Diego State Edition

LARAMIE — Jordan Bertagnole reiterated Saturday night that no one in Wyoming’s locker room is pointing fingers.

Outside that safe space is a much different story.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Evan Svoboda completed 39% of his throws, tossed two picks — including one that was immediately returned for a touchdown by San Diego State safety Eric Butler — and was sacked six times.

The Cowboys’ junior quarterback is once again in the crosshairs of the faithful after a 27-24 setback against the Aztecs inside a sun-splashed War Memorial Stadium.

Svoboda, again, was far from the only target after this one.

There were dropped balls, numerous miscues in the undermanned secondary and a pair of unnecessary special teams penalties.

This loss, as they say, was a group effort.

The signal caller, though, gets the glory, as he did after a valiant effort in a win over Air Force. He also bears the brunt, as you’ll see below.

Here are this week’s rants and raves on social media:

FIRST HALF:

Helen Beck WYOMING NEEDS A BETTER QUARTEBACK !!!!!

Richard Vasey Please, do not throw into the flats, no out routes, FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON!! I’m begging you.

James T. Anest He doesn’t understand passing. There a touch throws and fastballs. #17 not helped with 2 drops.

Mike McGraw How many passes will this kid miss

Thomas Anthony Rhodes 3 mistakes by QB1. What is his GPA?

Jason McMackin Svaboda needs to get it together dammit

Dustin Merritt Watching us go 20 yards the wrong direction after a huge defensive stop, then miss a FG, encapsulates our season.

SECOND HALF:

Bill Snively I’m not able to watch the game, only follow it on ESPN, which is painful enough. What I’m seeing in the stats is a failure at the coaching level, wether that’s the Head Coach or the O.C., is anyone’s blame game. Either way the coaching drop off from last year to this is precipitous and just damned embarrassing. Not really interested – at this point – in hearing all the aftermath platitudes about how “this isn’t good enough”, or “We’re better than this and we need to play like it.” They are what they are. They are what their coaching has put on the field.

Dustin Merritt Watching our offense is like watching an elementary game of 500

Mike McGraw Terrible clock management by this inept over his head coach!

Cindy Moe White Our Wyoming starting running back Sam Scott out ran San Diego states running back in this game. That’s one highlight

Sean Harrison We simply can’t do much worse than 12-31 with 2 INTS including a pick 6. Sawvel going to ride Svboda to 1-11 season?

Jacob Bullinger Poor coaching, Wyoming gave this one away!

David McDonald Oh well, I’m sure the weather was nice in Laramie!

Jeff White We’re back to Vic Koening

Bonnie Ruud Foster Disappointing…coach and QB..he is no #17. I am generally positive abd supportive, but the strategy at the end of the game sucked.

Tony Marlatt We sure looked unprepared for the most part. I wonder what the school record is for false starts in a game?

Toy Buell Coach has to go!!

Justin Gorman Im not sure we can get any lower than this. This is an embarrassing product to watch. They are so far out of their league and the coach and “QB” need to go! There was nothing positive to take from this game – wait 2 trick plays. Those were awesome, why didn’t we just keep running them util they didn’t work?

Thomas Anthony Rhodes What was Sawvel’s GPA?

Tony B. Garetto Wyo isn’t that bad. This game proves that. This team is so banged up it’s ridiculous. Plus, everyone goes crazy about being 1-5. This is a new team with new coaches and new systems…as well as those injuries, They have played and lost to ASU 5-1 (just beat Utah), BYU 6-0 (surprising everyone, including the Big 12, North Texas 4-1 (currently beating FAU) and Idaho 4-2 (had a lot of momentum coming to Laramie after playing a good Oregon team close). And we just lost in a nail biter to SDSU. I still think we will see several more wins before the end of this year. 6 wins would be great, but I’m thinking 5. Yeah, it sucks, but far better than 1-11 or 2-10. That all said, I do think Anderson should be the qb.

RC Decker The offensive coordinators, an idiot, get rid of him and will be all right. There’s a reason Michigan State get rid of Him

Brett Larson I don’t care how mad people get at me, Wyoming football has a bad coaching problem. Take a look at the drive right before the 2 minute timeout. We have the ball and are facing a crucial game changing 3rd and 2 call, Sawvel substitutes guys on the line with 6 SECONDS left on the play clock! What. The. Hell? Because of the stupid substitution the line was left confused and the middle linebacker came through the B gap unblocked and 17 was sacked and the game was over. Sawvel never has his team prepared never and makes in game adjustments. He needs FIRED.

Paul Janney HC Sawvel signed a five-year contract worth $5.8 million with Wyoming that runs through 2027

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