Walden got out ahead of the search and lobbied to the press hard making it difficult on the search committee.
Here's the timeline
11/26
Doba resigns.
11/27
doing interviews promoting Wulff ONE F.UCKING DAY LATER HE'S OUT THERE SAYING WULFF WULFF WULFF to the press.
11/28 he lobbied on radio KRKO 1380 (the media Wulff promotion continues by walden)
The search committee didn't have a chance because Walden was already out front screaming Wulff to any and all press.
12/8/07
Paul Wulff interviewed / 9th
12/12/07 Paul wullf announced
Between the interview and announcement, they didn't look at a bunch of candidates. And Walden was already flapping his gums about Wulff not just 1 day later.
"Search committee" is total bs.
Sumlin was
hired on the 12th by Houston (this is who Moos wanted, but it was too late and we couldn't put together a solid offer because SOME 0-10-1 coach is blah blah blah Wulff BEFORE people even got interviewed!)
I wanted Franklin but we never got the opportunity to get him the job.
He was hired by Maryland on December 23. TWO WEEKS after Wulff was announced. I knew we could get him, but would be competing against others for Sumlin.
Franklin is who I wanted, but we never got a real shot to get him to come, AND HE WOULD OF. HIS WIFE IS A WSU GRAD AND LOVES PULLMAN.
But noooooooooooo. WULFF WULFF WULFF squaks the great 0-10-1 Walden to the Press promoting someone totally unqualified for the job.
I blame Wulff for 9-40 and I blame Walden for not letting us do a proper search. He set us back into oblivion. Thank god we got Moos in there to clean house throw his crazy old ass to the curb and get Leach. But I am still pissed that we were set back like we were and lost valuable years building the program because of Walden and his cronyism big mouth.