Moultrie (Ga.) Colquitt County all-purpose running back Sihiem King picked up an offer from Washington State tonight, according to his Twitter account. The 5-foot-8, 175-pound athlete is rated two-stars by Rivals and also holds offers from Cincinnati, Georgia Southern, Georgia Tech, Marshall, Middle Tennessee State, Old Dominion, South Alabama, Southern Miss and Troy.

Rivals Southeast analyst Woody Womack has positive things to say about King prior to his senior season, most notably his elusiveness, toughness and excellent speed.

This offer doesn't come as a huge surprise, as King is an excellent playmaker through the air, as well, and it comes on the heels of Dominic Davis' flip to USC. King and Davis share similar qualities on the field. I'll be in touch with King soon to see if he plans on visiting.

who supported Wulff are in a frenzy now on the free board. It's a sight to behold!

was a result of injuries and not desperation? Is that the unconfirmed rumor/insinuation?

Washington State will be the first official visit for Los Angeles (Calif.) Salesian outside linebacker Kyahva Tezino. The four-star, who is rated the No. 10 outside linebacker and No. 124 overall prospect in the country, talked about his upcoming trip and recruitment with Adam Gorney at the link below.

Link: https://washingtonstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1698300

Following Tuesday's practice, Mike Leach confirmed that senior receiver Kristoff Williams is no longer on the Washington State roster, according to a tweet from Jacob Thorpe of the Spokesman Review. Today's depth chart no longer listed K. Williams in the two-deeps and he was replaced by Dom Williams at the Z-receiver. Leach did not elaborate on the reasoning.

K. Williams has been one of the highest achieving football players in the classroom over his Washington State career and will pursue a legal career following his time at Washington State. It appeared K. Williams suffered an injury this season, which kept him on the sidelines for the majority of the year.


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Richmond (Va.) St. Christopher's cornerback Garrett Taylor picked up an offer from Washington State tonight, according to his Twitter account. The 6-foot-1, 188-pound cornerback is rated four-stars by Rivals and the No. 6 cornerback in the country. Taylor is also rated the No. 3 prospect in Virginia and the No. 48 overall prospect in the 2015 class.

In addition to Washington State, Taylor holds offers from Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Tennessee, Virginia Tech, Clemson, LSU, Miami and everyone else. He reports a top five of Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State, Tennessee and Virginia Tech with official visits set up to Penn State and Ohio State next month, though he recently de-committed from Michigan.


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(Why doesn't Connor Halliday get more recognition for Heisman?) "I think he really ought to. I think the Heisman shifted a little bit with what it means. The used to try to give it out to the best player in college football, kind of back, say when Paul Hornung won the Heisman at Notre Dame. They didn't have a winning team but they felt like he was the best player, in other words, the most important player to his team. Nowadays, it appears to me, they try to give it to … I mean, it's a funny catch twenty-two, whoever they speculate is the most MVP on the team that wins the national championship. The trouble with it is, they do the Heisman voting before the national championship - that's literally trying to speculate that is what it's evolved to. It's tough to do the Heisman voting before the national championship is played. That's kind of what it's developed to, so that's what I think."

(What do you guys do throughout the season to limit the number of penalties?) "Well, you work as hard as you can to not have any. I've always felt like the gauge on penalties was … the way I have tried to gauge it was what's your opponent's penalties, what's your penalties. We're actually, the last time I looked, about a yard ahead. Spread teams are going to get penalized more technically, but their opponents are, too. I think it's because there's more individual matchups."

(Are spread offenses the reason that 7 of the top 20 most penalized teams in the country are Pac-12 teams?) "That may have something to do with the guys calling the games for the Pac-12."

(Early in the season, it appeared the front seven would help carry the secondary. It hasn't worked out that way. Why do you think that is?) "I think they can only do it to a point. We played three guys last week that, between them, they'd played about 60 snaps. I think they can only do it to a point. There's also a point were they're going to dump it off really quick where the secondary is going to have to be able to handle themselves."

(You've talked about guys not playing on to the next play. What tells you that that's what's going on?) "I think that, basically, our side - and it's not everybody across the board and there's times that we get on a roll - I think that some of it is our maturity. You go our there and if you're focused on the last one, positive or negative, it's hard to focus on the next one. You have to constantly do the next one. The other thing is, you can't be so ambivalent about the last one that you don't learn from it. I think that guys can't start moping around if something good doesn't happen and I think they can't spend their time celebrating if something good does happens. They have to try to get the most out of each play and the experience that provides."

(Do you see, sometimes, both of those reactions?) "Well, I see both of those reactions on every team in the country. The teams that are steadier with that and more focused on the next play are the ones that play the best."

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Obviously late to this, but as I'm sure you're probably aware, Mission Hills (Calif.) Alemany ATH Dominic Davis de-committed from Washington State and flipped to USC on Sunday. No surprise there.

Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei defensive tackle Olive Sagapolu committed to Wisconsin while on an official visit over the weekend. The 6-foot-3, 300-pound defensive lineman took an official visit to Washington State for the California game and was expected to choose between the Cougars and Badgers.

As Mike Farrell recently indicated, Washington State was close to offering Tacoma (Wash.) Lincoln safety/linebacker Jusstis Warren and they did just that over the weekend. The 6-foot-3, 225-pounder also holds offers from California, Eastern Washington, Idaho, Montana State, UC Davis, Utah State, UTEP and a few others.

Washington State was busy sending out offer to JUCO prospects yesterday as Brenham (TX) Blinn C.C. receiver Treshon Broughton both grabbed Wazzu offers.

Ratley, a 6-foot-2, 190-pound receiver, is rated three-stars by Rivals and also holds offers from Kentucky, Texas Tech and UTSA. He's teammates with recent Washington State offeree Dede Westbrook, a four-star receiver that noted he was thinking about taking an official visit to Washington State, though West Virginia, Oklahoma and Texas Tech are also in the picture there.
Ratley has two official visits currently set up to Texas Tech (Nov. 15) and Kentucky (Dec. 13).

Broughton is an Oregon State commit and is a bigger cornerback at 6-foot-0, 190-pounds. He's rated three-stars by Rivals and also holds offers from California, Fresno State and UAB. Broughton has been committed to Oregon State since March and appears to be solid in his commitment.

The Cougars have had success at Riverside in recent years and currently have five offers out within the JUCO program including receiver Jeremiah Mitchell. Four-star Washington State quarterback commit Tyler Hilinski's brother, Kelly, is the quarterback for Riverside and Washington State linebacker Greg Hoyd's father is a coach for the California JUCO program.

We'll be back to regular content this afternoon. Just a quick update on me, I've been in and out of the doctor for the last month or so trying to figure some health things out and we're getting close to narrowing it down, at which point I'll give you guys a full update. So that's been my life the last two days, but I'm home now and ready to type words.

Flor will be getting the start at center.

Maybe Sorensen ends up taking Middleton's spot?

I posted this over in the War Room, but wanted to pass it along over here, too. Washington State will travel to Nevada on Nov. 1 to play the Wolfpack in a controlled scrimmage, according to Jeff Goodman of ESPN. No statistics are going to be available and the media will not be allowed to attend.

Other Pac-12 scrimmages...

-Long Beach State at Arizona
-Saint Mary's at Arizona
-UNLV at UCLA
-Denver at Colorado
-Portland at Washington
-Stanford at San Diego State
-UC Irvine at USC
-Wyoming at Utah

The Cougars and Stanford are the only Pac-12 schools that are traveling for their scrimmages.

Link: http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/jeff-goodman/post?id=4172&ex_cid=InsiderTwitter_GoodmanSecretScrimmage


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Texas Tech commit Corey Dauphine, a three-star running back out of Port Arthur (TX) Memorial, will visit Washington State this weekend, he tells WazzuWatch.com. The 6-foot-1, 180-pound running back also holds offers from Arizona State, Baylor, Florida, TCU, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Utah and several others. This is a huge visit and Washington State certainly has a chance to flip one of the top all-purpose backs in the country.

This may blow your mind, but ponder this fact: recall all the talk that recruiting will be much easier at UVA in terms of signing NBA talent? Well, assuming that Motum makes the Utah roster, did you realize that WSU will have more NBA players than does UVA under Tony Bennett (and he's had, what, 3 more years there as HC than he did at WSU)? That is really incredible and I don't think anyone would have predicted that.





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SAN FRANCISCO - The ARIZONA Wildcats are picked to finish first in the 2014-15 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball race, according to a poll of media members who cover Pac-12 men's basketball.

Arizona, led by redshirt senior T.J. McConnell[/B] (8.4 ppg/3.6 rpg), secured the top spot in the poll for the third-straight year after garnering all but one first-place vote. UTAH narrowly claimed No. 2, with just one more point than third-place finisher COLORADO. Both the Utes and the Buffs return four starters from last season, includ-ing first team All-Pac-12 honorees in Utah's Delon Wright (15.5 ppg/6.8 rpg) and Colorado's Josh Scott (14.1 ppg/8.4 rpg).

Reigning Pac-12 Tournament champion UCLA is slotted fourth in the poll, followed by STANFORD at fifth, after both squads advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 in 2013-14. WASHINGTON edged out CALIFORNIA by one point to round out the top half of the poll, weighing in at sixth while the Golden Bears come in at seventh.

OREGON is tabbed at eighth, followed by ARIZONA STATE at ninth and USC at 10th. WASHINGTON STATE was picked to finish 11th, while OREGON STATE rounds out the poll at 12th.

Media have correctly picked the Conference winner 13 times in 22 tries. Arizona has correctly been selected in eight of the previous 12 times it has been slated to capture the league crown.

The 2014-15 season gets underway for the Pac-12 with 11 games on Friday, November 14. All but one of those games will be televised live on the Pac-12 Networks as part of this year's Full Court Friday. For more in-formation, including a composite schedule, visit www.pac-12.com.

New Orleans (La.) Landry-Walker 3-star DT George Lea talks about his
upcoming official visits to Washington State, Kansas State, and Arizona State, and his
decision timetable.

Video Interview: George Lea

Certainly looks like it.

Link: http://www.sportal.com.au/nba/motum-set-for-season-start/1vh09mky9q1q1jita5zs1v6hv

Today is my two year anniversary since taking over the website. I wanted to thank all of you for making this a fun experience. There's definitely a lot more to do around here and I'm excited for the improvements that are on the way. Thank you for coming along for the ride. Go Cougs.


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Link: https://washingtonstate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1696113

for anybody interested.

pac-12 media day schedule

I just uploaded the full preview section of the 2014-15 Pac-12 men's basketball media guide with screenshots of the WSU sections on The Wire.

Link: https://washingtonstate.rivals.com/wire.asp

Renard Suggs a 6'3 juco committed to the cougs. he averaged 14.2 pts per game and shot over 38% from 3 pt land last year, He is a smooth team player with very good athletic and jumping ability. I guess that shows that Ernie is still recruiting for next year, Kent has had a chance to see the returning ttalent in person and knows that he has to upgrade the roster. Now he has to find another big man for next year.

I hope that anyone going to the scrimmage will report back to the rest of us who are thousands of miles away.