After taking full responsibility for screwing the pooch on this hire, Pat Chun growled, we will endeavor to hire a coach with an "authentic commitment" to WSU.
Yeah, I know some of you will say that Rolo had that "commitment," you can't expect a man to get vaccinated if he really, really, doesn't want to -- commitment has it limits. Joking aside, Rolo actions showed 100% commitment to only himself, and zero commitment to the team, his staff, the university and the Cougar nation. If you aren't willing to suck it up, to do what you would rather not, and get vaccinated for the good of the Cougs, you aren't worthy of coaching these kids.
Let's not forget what true commitment is, and what commitment we have witnessed. Commitment is Rosie, broken rib and all, unable to raise his arm to throw, running a draw play, diving for the goal line against the Dawgs for the winning score, taking a hit and being unable to stand upright thereafter due to the intense pain. Commitment is Gesser, barely able to walk, let alone jog or run, sucking it up, playing and beating UCLA on one leg to go to the Rose Bowl. Commitment is Connor Halliday playing more than a half against Utah with a lacerated F-ing liver. Now compare that to Rolo's "commitment" to WSU. It is like comparing someone willing to jump on a hand grenade to save his mates, to someone reticent about chipping a nail after a manicure.
As for all of you who want to blame the "overreach" of state government for creating this mess. Sorry. President Schultz made it clear that WSU had a mandate in place first, and that WSU is "unequivocally pro vaccine," pointing out that the mandate is primarily responsible for having only 7 Covid cases in a student facility population of 25,000. If acceptance of an anti vax, anti mandate view point is your litmus test for your support for WSU, it is time to move on. President Schultz, a chemical engineering Ph.D., pointed out that WSU is research university and any other position would be antithetically. Magical, irrational self centered thinking ain't what WSU stands for or supports, my words, not his.
It is time to "buy in or leave." The sad fact is Rolo had as much commitment to WSU as Vidkun Quisling had to Norway.
I'm calling WSU tomorrow to increase my contribution by $1000.
Yeah, I know some of you will say that Rolo had that "commitment," you can't expect a man to get vaccinated if he really, really, doesn't want to -- commitment has it limits. Joking aside, Rolo actions showed 100% commitment to only himself, and zero commitment to the team, his staff, the university and the Cougar nation. If you aren't willing to suck it up, to do what you would rather not, and get vaccinated for the good of the Cougs, you aren't worthy of coaching these kids.
Let's not forget what true commitment is, and what commitment we have witnessed. Commitment is Rosie, broken rib and all, unable to raise his arm to throw, running a draw play, diving for the goal line against the Dawgs for the winning score, taking a hit and being unable to stand upright thereafter due to the intense pain. Commitment is Gesser, barely able to walk, let alone jog or run, sucking it up, playing and beating UCLA on one leg to go to the Rose Bowl. Commitment is Connor Halliday playing more than a half against Utah with a lacerated F-ing liver. Now compare that to Rolo's "commitment" to WSU. It is like comparing someone willing to jump on a hand grenade to save his mates, to someone reticent about chipping a nail after a manicure.
As for all of you who want to blame the "overreach" of state government for creating this mess. Sorry. President Schultz made it clear that WSU had a mandate in place first, and that WSU is "unequivocally pro vaccine," pointing out that the mandate is primarily responsible for having only 7 Covid cases in a student facility population of 25,000. If acceptance of an anti vax, anti mandate view point is your litmus test for your support for WSU, it is time to move on. President Schultz, a chemical engineering Ph.D., pointed out that WSU is research university and any other position would be antithetically. Magical, irrational self centered thinking ain't what WSU stands for or supports, my words, not his.
It is time to "buy in or leave." The sad fact is Rolo had as much commitment to WSU as Vidkun Quisling had to Norway.
I'm calling WSU tomorrow to increase my contribution by $1000.