First-year coach Dave Christensen stresses discipline and a certain way of doing things.
Wyoming has practiced that way all season, and that hasn’t changed as the team prepares for Saturday’s New Mexico Bowl with Fresno State.
“Its’ pretty much the same that we did the rest of the weeks throughout the season, we just get about seven or eight more practices that we normally don’t get during a normal game week,” senior defensive lineman John Fletcher said. “Mentally we’re getting in more work than we normally do.
“At least for me it doesn’t feel any different. It just feels like another week, or kind of like the time leading up to the first game when you have more practices before you actually play.”
The Cowboys practiced in full pads Monday morning and had a walk-through scheduled for the afternoon. They will do the same Tuesday before leaving for Albuquerque Wednesday.
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A perk of playing in a bowl game for players is the free gifts they get from the bowl.
In this game, players from both teams will be given a certain amount of points and then put in room with the gifts. They use their points to pick out the gifts they want and each gift is assigned a point value.
Some of the UW players got a preview of the gifts available, which include a television, IPod, video camera other electronics.
Each player is given five points.
“If the TV’s big enough that’s what I want to get,” true freshman running back Alvester Alexander said.
I also heard there will be some appliances available, such as a George Foreman grill.
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Alexander and true freshman quarterback Austyn Carta-Samuels represented UW in the annual chili cook-off that the New Mexico Bowl puts on.
This year, the cooking was done on campus sites and a representative from the bowl went to Laramie and Fresno to taste the chili. The winner will be announced Wednesday.
“My mom can cook, but I don’t cook much,” Alexander said. “We were just acting like what we knew what we were doing, but I think we did a pretty good job.”
Carta-Samuels felt confident in his cooking abilities.
“I knew what I was doing,” he said. “My mom is a really good cook and my grandma is an amazing cook. I had a feel for what I was doing, even though I had never made chili before.”
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Fresno State coach Pat Hill has agreed to a contract extension with the school. For more on that, see this story from the Fresno Bee.
http://www.fresnobee.com/963/story/1747316.html
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See Tuesday’s paper for more on Monday’s practice, and how UW’s run game has dictated a lot on its success and failures during the regular season. Also see a story on which UW receiver(s) need to step up to take the pressue off leading receiver David Leonard.
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