What does he add to yhis team?

Great win. Gutty performance.

Does anybody know the probable story on why Stanford went from the 4,5th place team last season to 5-11 this season?

Cal level injuries? Whole team either graduated, went pro, left via Portal, etc? Coaching Change?

Might be a chance to upgrade. Didn’t seem to coach or recruit particularly well imo.

This should be interesting to follow.

New bill proposed would keep UW and WSU in the same conference

That's a game we needed to win.

DC

Had to take a break from College football and the dumpster fire it has become to check out
probably the last bastion of purity in sports: Women's basketball

They were down 14-3 to start the game and came back to win by double digits by winning the 4th quarter.

Thats a solid win.

Do you agree?

"For whatever reason, the early-season struggles of Washington State men’s basketball caused a lot of fans to doubt the direction of the program under Kyle Smith."

For whatever reason? What? How about the obvious reasons that we lost to teams that we had no business losing to? How about way too many turnovers game after game?

Don't get me wrong, the team is playing very well now, but that in no way "vindicates" our earlier stumbles.

What do you guys think? Nusser once again full of hot air? 😀 I believe so.

Not to blast the man so close to unfortunate times, but it seems his coaches are extremely loyal to each other and Texas. We don’t need any more 1-2 year guys hopping around. I understand this is possible with whoever we hire, but I think that nucleus of guys we focus on will always be in and out or jobs with the Dykes, Holgerson, Riley, Harrel, Morris etc etc. Leach’s tree is big enough and tight enough we basically stand to replace any successful OC from him within a year. Again, I know this is possible with whoever we hire, but it doesn’t seem necessary to have one of his former players anymore to run an air raid style offense. We can find that most places. Hell Bartelone could do it now. Just curious on other thoughts, because we haven’t seen much loyalty from that group outside or Leach himself and the constant turnover needs to stop.

We've seen some talk on here about the program, but what's your expectation for WSU in 2023? We play the following teams with the final schedule TBD.

@ CSU - win
Wisconsin - loss
Northern Colorado - win
@ ASU - win
@ Cal - win
@ Oregon - loss
@ UCLA - loss
@ UW - loss
Arizona - win
Colorado - win
Oregon State - win
Stanford - win

Green are games that I think we will be favored to win and I'll even say expect to win. Orange are tossup games where we might win given the mess at ASU and getting Oregon State at home. However, we have often struggled in Tempe and OSU is only getting better with time. UCLA is tougher to guess. DTR is gone and they were kind of a mess at the end of the season with him there. I'm showing that game as a loss because it's on the road, but it's a game that we'll have a chance at winning. Dickert's history of 7-5 regular season finishes suggests that we are going to lose to either ASU or Oregon State and maybe both.

I think we qualify for a bowl regardless and I'll be disappointed in Dickert if we don't.

Curious where we land with expansion. Plus 4? Fresno St., UNLV, San Diego St. and SMU?

Position Fresno as the LA replacement team. They could do some games at SoFi would be my guess.

If he wants it does DJ have another eligibility because of COVID?

Bamba is out tonight. Cougs leading by 1 at halftime.

I love Gueye, but damn. If he has any hope of playing in the NBA, his midrange jumper has to improve.

Is now a COUG

Any bets they do the national championship trophy presentation in August over on Montlake?

Would love to know how you get to that point at USC with his performance

I was thinking about what KougKurt stated below about Rodman...

"A lunch pail guy and a top 20 all time Coug Yeah I mean it."

I love the guy and wish we could clone him. He's so solid and smart...and does so much for our team.

But should he be in the top 20 of Wazzu men's basketball players?

To not go back too far in history, which players should be on the top 20 list starting with Raveling's tenure (so no Dennis Hogg, Ted Wierman, Lenny Allen or players before that included)?

We've probably done this before, but I don't remember.

So in mostly chronological order, these are the players I thought of:

Steve Puidokas
James Donaldson
Don Collins
Bryan Rison
Stuart House
Craig Ehlo
Guy Williams
Brian Quinnett
Isaac Fontaine
Tony Harris
Terrence Lewis
Bennie Seltzer
Devonte Lacy
Mark Hendrickson
Marcus Moore
Derrick Low
Kyle Weaver
Aaron Baynes
Taylor Rochestie
Brock Motum
Josh Hawkinson
C.J. Elleby
Robert Franks
Klay Thompson

That's 24. Which 5 would you take off the list to add Rodman?

I think the hard part is that Rodman does so many good things that don't necessarily get captured in the stats. Does he belong in the top 20? I can easily see a good case for him. Thoughts?

I think we have 10 at this time. 4 WR; 3 LB; 2 CB; and one OL.

These are all arguably good fits from a position standpoint. I'd love to see all of them excel. At the very least I'd hope that they push others for starting spots. A significant improvement in depth, either way. The WR's as a whole appear to be a group of over-achievers who took their opportunity and did something with it; they have shown that they can catch the ball. The LB's appear to be some of that, but also guys who had HS cred but did not excel in their previous program and are looking for another chance. JC CB's have historically been a 50/50 proposition for us; let's hope at least one and preferably both can get it done. And I am fervently hoping that the FCS OL can slip in & perform just like the last one.

If all of these guys contribute we will be in a legitimate "reload" rather than "rebuild" mode. Of course, every team is saying that about their transfers. Still, I'm expecting at least 6 or 7 of the 10 will be fighting hard for a starting spot. Spring ball will be interesting.

Not surprising

Per Seattle Times

Former Cougar soccer player was the 7th pick in last year's draft. Now, we'll be able to watch her in Seattle.

https://www.sounderatheart.com/seat...ign-elyse-bennett-draft-pick-trade-kc-current

To USC out of all places..I hate USC with a passion..they are dirty U when it comes to football.

For the 2022 season, we had 5 portal transfers (Lee, Malani, Lampkin, Ferrel, and Henley)
I count 13 scholarship players from WSU entering the portal.

How did the other 8 openings get filled? Does that mean we can sign 8 additional JC or high school players?