You can get that from other people plenty of people do those things and aren’t blowhards who tell us who to hire and try to prop up the worst coach in the history of the program.
Every single thing you listed except for his 3-6 Apple Cup Record has NOTHING to do with coaching. NOTHING.
He was 0-4 his first 4 Apple Cups and 2-4 his first six years. Leach is 1-5.
100k donation is a donation anyone can donate. And as I said the guy OWES us money for paying him for so long when his overall results were poor.
Conceptualizing and executing Apple Cup to Pullman from Spokane? The game was always going to end up in Pullman. What did people think it was never going to come to Pullman? As if somehow the University would never grow. We’ve played the Apple Cup in Pullman before Jim Walden and we played it after too. The reality is Jim Walden took credit for crap he didn’t even do. He was just the coach during that time.
Martin Stadium was going to be built. The semester was going to be moved like everyone else.
That’s like Leach taking credit for the FOB building. Well I came here and I told them we needed one and they built it because I said so.
Albi was going to be a temporary place and honestly I believe they intentionally burnt the old fields at Idaho and in Pullman to make it so people had to go to Albi until the stadiums were replaced. Which was the plan all along.
So Walden stamps his feet about Albi and wants the game in Pullman blah blah blah... it was all just an act they were gonna do it anyway.
The semesters synched and then it made no sense to use Albi anymore. Albi was always the temp solution until the new solution was in place on campus. Walden (as typical was just the bullsh*ttee). Again all this has nothing to do with coaching.
“Folksy Charm” - Sarah Palin has “folksy charm” , and that doesn’t mean I need to listen to that dumb ho. If you want “folksy charm” buy the box set of he-haw. Again that has ZERO to do with actual coaching.
Oh my. When are you going to stop this crusade? Aren't YOU sick of raging about a coach who left 32 years ago? When you were what - 7 years old?
Go back and look at the schedule pre-1982. We played uw in Spokane, UCLA in Spokane, and USC in Seattle (when they would venture north at all).
How you can tell us how it went down before you were born is mystifying. You realize that some of us (myself included) were actually in college at WSU during these years? Yes Walden was a driving force in getting the Apple Cup (and ultimately all games) moved to Pullman. The 1980 Apple Cup was still in Spokane, after the stadium expansion. in 1984 USC came to town for the first time in - I don't know - decades? Oh, little factoid - WSU's greatest of margin of victory over USC? 34-14. IN 1986, in Pullman.
Last thing, then I am banning this thread from memory. Your comment about CML and the FOB. The consensus on this board (not my opinion) is that the FOB was indeed part of the lure to bringing CML to town. Maybe you can start arguing that one for 30 or 40 threads.