When he was at the Heisman ceremony doing his interview he spoke about his high school football coach. Apparently the coach sat his entire team down with pen and paper and asked them to answer this question.
"What is the least you are willing to accept?"
When I think of what WSU's brand of football should be, I don't think the wheel needs to be reinvented. I think you take what Leach does on offense and you add in what Jim Harbaugh did at Stanford. JH is the only guy in recent history to resurrect a dead program.
WSU's brand, IMO, should be all day tough, hit you in the teeth, physical/punishing/ultimate effort football for 60 minutes. Whatever scheme you wanna run, fine. But make for damn sure the other team knows they were in a fight when the game is over.
I know that kids make mistakes. I know coaches can make mistakes too. What I have a hard time with is watching the zombies. No intensity, no effort, no sense of urgency, no one out there doing anything to make the other team quit.
Also, you fill your roster with kids that stay and grind. The revolving door at WSU has to stop. No more kids in the program for a month or a year or two years and then gone. The retention rate at WSU has to be 70% or better. If you wanna compete with 4 and 5 star talent that other schools have, you need to take your 2 and 3 star guys and bury them in your program for 4 years. Get them coached up, get them schemed up, get them muscled up. Get them on the field with so much coaching under their belt that you can run complicated schemes that confuse a true frosh QB from UCLA. Get your backs strong enough so when you do sling it to them in the flat the other team needs 3 guys there to stop him.
The least these kids and coaches are willing to accept is embarrassing. I dunno if this was the worst loss in school history, but you can see it from here.
"What is the least you are willing to accept?"
When I think of what WSU's brand of football should be, I don't think the wheel needs to be reinvented. I think you take what Leach does on offense and you add in what Jim Harbaugh did at Stanford. JH is the only guy in recent history to resurrect a dead program.
WSU's brand, IMO, should be all day tough, hit you in the teeth, physical/punishing/ultimate effort football for 60 minutes. Whatever scheme you wanna run, fine. But make for damn sure the other team knows they were in a fight when the game is over.
I know that kids make mistakes. I know coaches can make mistakes too. What I have a hard time with is watching the zombies. No intensity, no effort, no sense of urgency, no one out there doing anything to make the other team quit.
Also, you fill your roster with kids that stay and grind. The revolving door at WSU has to stop. No more kids in the program for a month or a year or two years and then gone. The retention rate at WSU has to be 70% or better. If you wanna compete with 4 and 5 star talent that other schools have, you need to take your 2 and 3 star guys and bury them in your program for 4 years. Get them coached up, get them schemed up, get them muscled up. Get them on the field with so much coaching under their belt that you can run complicated schemes that confuse a true frosh QB from UCLA. Get your backs strong enough so when you do sling it to them in the flat the other team needs 3 guys there to stop him.
The least these kids and coaches are willing to accept is embarrassing. I dunno if this was the worst loss in school history, but you can see it from here.
