Final 2009 Weber State University Football Season Wrap-up, Etc.

Neck-snapping segue: WSU is also taking care of business off the football field

Due the the increasingly annoying pre-holiday interlude in Emerald City red-meat news, we'll take this opportunity to do a final 2009 Weber State University football season wrap-up. Ron McBride's 2009 WSU football program finished the season 7-5, and qualified for its second consecutive FCS tournament. Not a bad finish for a squad, which prior to Coach Mac's advent, was a consistent Big Sky Conference cellar dweller. Here are a couple of morning northern Utah print media articles to fittingly put a final cap on the season:

In this Deseret News story, reporter Andrew Aragon takes this season's serendipitous adversity into account, and congratulates WSU for a "solid season":

• Weber State football: Wildcats overcome adversity to have solid season

And this morning Standard-Examiner story presents a nice glimpse into post-season team introspection:

• Plenty of ups and downs to WSU's '09 football campaign

Yes, Coach Mac will be back next season, and he's already diagnosed what's needed for next year:

Obviously we're proud of what we've done here, but we're a long way from being done with what our goals are," McBride said. "I think we have to become a more physical team on offense to take pressure off the quarterback and our run game has to be able to match the throw game and be fundamentally more sound. Defensively it's a matter of being better fundamentally.

We offer our thanks to Coach Mac and his 2009 player for an exciting and successful season, and we're proudly looking forward to offering our WSU Game Day Threads in 2010.

And while we're patting WSU on the back, we'll launch another neck-snapping segue, and invite our readers to check this out. Seems to us that WSU is also taking care of business off the football field. In a recent Forbes Magazine survey, Weber State was reportedly ranked as the 43rd-best public institution to attend nationally:

• Forbes: Weber State a top public school

Not a bad finish at all, in a field of no less than 615 U.S. public 4-year institutions; and a far cry from the days when the Emerald City Gondolists were rabidly arguing that it would take a gondola and a WSU hotel management/hospitality program to put WSU on the national map.

Go Wildcats. We're proud of ya's, both on and off the gridiron.

That's it for now.

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