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Noah to UW

I don't wish him any ill will. Hope he does okay against everyone other than the Cougs and that UW is a horrible team overall. Hopefully he appreciates what WSU did for him.

The thing I don't like about this from a WSU perspective is the high likelihood of it looking bad. Williams seems like the kind of guy who enjoys negative attention and is motivated by feeling spurned. Combine that with the expectation that any player might put things together as an upperclassman--think how many times we've seen middling players do much better as upperclassmen--and the low baseline for improvement compared to what he did last year at WSU, and it isn't hard to see him doing OK at UW and the narrative being that UW coached him better in ways Smith couldn't, nor is it hard to see him doing really well against the Cougs, much like he did earlier in his career against UW. Not terribly concerned since I think he's a mess, so even an improved version won't be all that great, but he has some talent.
Actually glass half empty would be the Valhalla incident gets brought up next year again.
 
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