If Coach Rolovich is canned my Top 5 replacements!
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Coach Nick Rolovich has two OL recruits coming in the 2022 Class' He's doing a decent job picking up lineman but he has too recruit better talent. No excuses why we are not getting Top 30 classes with the winning culture Coach Leach established! Go Cougs!
I would think you would take from the receivers. if you have a te, you have 3 receivers out there, no?
Now, that is an interesting name. One of the best recruiters in football. If he could hire a great staff (especially coordinators), I think it would be a good hire. He would be like Ed Orgeron. Outstanding recruiter. He had the ultimate success at LSU because he had better coordinators than what he had at USC and Ole Miss. Win or lose, you are left with great players.
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I think that a coach on the rise will need some ties to the west coast and/or PAC12 to be successful. Leach was a pretty famous name and maybe could get through doors that other couldn't. The Price/Erikson mold that knew every coach (and their brother) in the PNW and California is probably the fastest way to get back on track.
If you’re not smart enough to take one in the arm for the betterment of your health AND. + $2 mill a year then you aren’t smart enough to be my head coach…next. I don’t think this will be a problem going forward despite the numb nuts who’s currently occupying the position.
Erickson didn't do much recruiting in his two years here. But did land 2 good QBs
But installed within a few weeks (not yrs) an offense that stayed in place for 21 years.
Erickson is available.
Jeff banks banks would be a wild card but is a helluva good recruiter and a west coast guy. He will never get an SEC gig without HC at another P5. If I’m Chun I’d have him on a short list.
Yes, by skip I meant attend remotely. Did you not understand what I meant?
And my point is simply that I don’t think a vax mandate would be that great a hurdle.
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Frankly, I don’t like any of the names on your list. McElwain and Grinch are the best 2. But Mc hasn’t been very consistent and has issues. Grinch has no HC experience, no offense, and his D has proved to have some glaring weaknesses. Plus his wife already made him leave Pullman once.
Some will thing I’m nuts, but top of my list is Chris Peterson. Proven success, west coast familiarity. He left coaching largely because of the fishbowl and the media attention, which is a much smaller issue in Pullman. I call him and make him say no a couple times before I even make a list.
After Peterson turns it down, I talk to Kalani Sitake and Matt Entz. Tyson Helton is also on the radar, but I’m not sure I’d make that call yet.
I don’t think he would. But I make the call. Another guy I don’t expect would leave, but may be worth the conversation is Troy Calhoun at Air Force.
There wasn't a whole lot of expectation from the job outside of perhaps the last 20 years, and even at that there was a four year stint in which half of the fan base was still content to live in the basement as the loveable losers. Hell, they're probably still there for all we know, and the giving would indicate as much.
If we hire a known coach it'll have to come with at least a $5MM price tag.
Wjy?
We have a smorgasbord of receivers every yr it seems.
Would rather cut receivers than lineman
My inner fantasy is that Peterson comes here and in his introductory presser he says:
“Look, I left udump because the place sucks. I hated my time there. I hated living in the city. They are a bunch of entitled assholes over there. Pullman fits with me perfectly and we’ll do great things here. Including going undefeated against the mutts in every year that I’m coaching the Cougs.”
It is well known that I coached my kid's soccer team circa age 6 and 7.
I'll do it for $2.5 Million.
And then takes off his shirt to show a Cougar head logo tattooed across his back as penance for his time at uw.
I have no idea why coaches will sign receivers over and over again… to the point of unbalancing their allocation of scholarships per side of the ball… its dumb.
There is no shortage of WRs. The next dumbest thing is redshirting them.
Your preference is a passing offense, yet you constantly bitched about not running the ball when we had one of the best passing offenses in school history.
I told my friend when he left UW and before Leach left that I would not be surprised if he becomes Leach's replacement.
Seems to me he likes a smaller school environnment...but its not like I've ever had beers with the guy so I could be reading that wrong
I'm sorry, but Chris Peterson? 😂 Chris Peterson is not taking the WSU job. There's no way.
I never cease to be amazed by the trend among some of our fans, which started when Leach first got $2m, of saying "for X we should expect [things that are unreasonable or don't make sense]" where X is a market wage.
Yes, a coach being paid $3m will do a lot of things, like comply with a vaccine mandate, to keep that job. But Harrell could get multiple places to pay him a market wage to be a head coach, and while there's no particular reason other than assumptions based on his background to think he might not be a big fan of vaccination mandates, the mere fact that the job pays a market wage doesn't mean that other aspects of the decisionmaking process go out the window. That's nonsensical. I think it's much more likely, although perhaps not the most likely eventuality, that he's the first head coach Houston has as a P5 school than it is he ever sets foot on the home sideline in Pullman for any reason.
The only person from Red State SEC/Big 12 country that has a chance of being hired to coach at WSU is the chick who kicked for Vandy as a special teams coach.
I mean, he did play at WSU, which is why I assume he's being mentioned.
Things are different outside the I-5 corridor, and the state of Washington.
Wulff never would've been harassed over the Vax.
Brand X, Brand Y, the columnists and talk shows were able to successfully spin 69-0 as necessary to protect JT Levenseller's redshirt and also as part of the change management process.
I don't know. The Covid religion is pretty powerful with the Wulff defenders. It would be an unstoppable force meets the immovable object moment if Wulff had endured this controversy.
Easy peasy, pick two of the excuses below.
1. "It is CPW's personal business and the real super spreaders are in the student section not wearing their masks"
2. "He had a tragic upbringing"
3. "You can't fire CPW over this and put several alum coaches out of work as well. They have families"
4. "Why hold CPW responsible for Doba and his staff not caring about the virus?"
5. "Shut up and tailgate. Did CPW infect your girlfriend?"
6. Walden would follow up with a story on one of his radio shows about a sorority giving STDs to half the D-Line during the week of the Apple Cup.
You forgot "You're not an epidemiologist, so you have no right to speak on this matter."
Were you cryogenically frozen during 2009 or something? That is all you ever talk about.
Don't you think it odd there was never a column or editorial calling for him to be fired?
Only one of the last 5 coaches to never face pressure from the media.
The guy leading the charge at Brand Y wrote a 4 part love letter to him and concluded WSU couldn't afford to fire him.
Now, "it doesn't matter what it costs, fire Rolo"
Get a woke alum staff, run the ball, tweet about microbrews, dogs and macaroni recipes and let WSU football begin its inevitable decline into Vandaldom.
The Wulff era was the sneak preview
