Why not Craig Bohl of Wyoming?

Nov 6, 2017 7:03:56 GMT -8 skyrider said:

While I believe that Beau Baldwin is an excellent candidate, I also believe there is a better candidate for Oregon State who has an even better record than Coach Baldwin and has a system of both hard nosed defense and a punishing offense that would fit Oregon State like a glove.

That candidate would be Coach Craig Bohl of Wyoming(previously head coach at North Dakota State).

I would appreciate comments pro and con about Coach Bohl.

P.S. I have lived in Spokane for the past several years and have watched many of Coach Baldwin's games. He is an excellent offensive coach but his defenses have been for the most part not very good. Again, I believe he is a good choice. However I think Coach Bohl would be a better choice.

skyrider, that is an interesting question you pose. Why? Because there is a large contingent on this board who say that Beau Baldwin is the answer we are looking for. I am semi-sort of in that camp. Why are people fired up about Baldwin? Because he has a long track record of success at the 1-AA/FCS level. The Baldwin supporters are of the belief that that success will translate into excellence at the Pac 12 level.

So why not Bohl? Bohl has even better FCS success than Baldwin, as Bohl  coached the North Dakota State Bison to three consecutive FCS titles (2011-2013), which included Carson Wentz' freshman and sophomore campaigns. ND State also had good years in 2006 and 2007 (10-1 both years) but were ineligible for the playoffs in FCS (1AA at the time) because they were serving a four probation period form the 1AA playoffs because they had moved up to 1AA from D II.

Bohl now coaches at Wyoming, where he continued Wyoming's unimpressive run for his first two years (4-8/2-6, 2-10/2-6) but then turned it around in year 3 to reach 8-6/6-2 in the MWC, including a win over Boise St. That was good enough to tie for the MWC title and send them to the Poinsettia Bowl, where they lost to BYU in a tight game. This year Wyoming stands at 6-3/4-1 including a wood-shredding loss at the hands of the hated uo yucks (in Wyoming) when uo had their starting QB. There other two losses were against at Boise St. (24-14) and at Iowa (24-3). Wyoming has a pretty good QB.  

Wyoming isn't exactly college football Mecca and I suspect it is fairly difficult to recruit there. Plus, the MWC is a weak conference at this point in time and therefore I cannot cite a good win for the Cowboys this year.

Bohl (59) is older than Baldwin (45), but I think he has at least as good, if not better, qualifications. I think Bohl is not a bad choice at  all, especially in light of the fact that many people think that Baldwin is a viable candidate.