People need to quit crying

[Cougatron]

Yes it is unfortunately that the best recruiter the on the offensive side of the ball got a new job at a school that has won multiple national titles. And with that we lost several recruits.....

But at least we are at the point that big time national programs are after our assistants.

USC wanted coach Joe. Oklahoma wanted Simmons.

We are at least hiring people now that big programs want and we are getting kids that the other big programs want too.

Despite losing our best recruiter we still closed with a decent class, and one that on paper looks better than anything we have had recently.

We really need to get rid of this woe is me crap attitude our fanbase has all the time when the slightest thing goes wrong.

WSU has always been the school that despite not being paved in gold we would roll up our sleeves and be defiant in pursuit to accomplish things when other people said we couldn't. That's always been our way, but for some reason sometime around 2003 on we started to have this "sky is falling", "I'll go to the game when they win", "I'll leave at halftime", "Oh no the new coach wants the players to work hard they can't handle that they are just kids!" soft cry baby attitude.

None of that is Coug mentality. At least not the mentality that I know. The coug mentality I know is a guy from Georgia heading to WSU on the GI Bill and then going on to be one THE faces of sports journalism and respected by millions.

Or a guy that came to WSU and joined Phi Kappa Theta only to leave for Boston to start some Billion dollar company with some thing called computers and software.

Or the people that were so determined that if Gameday wasn't going to come to pullman they were going to make sure WSU was there wherever gameday was. Any city. Any time. Every time. Since.

Or the kid that goes into the NBA and just breaks the scoring record for a quarter and 3 pointers for a quarter. Of all time.

Our real history is about doing great things that nobody expects us to because we could care less about what the expectation is, or what people say is or isn't possible. We don't give a damn about any of that bullsh*t. We just go out there because and do it because we believe we can, will, and have done it. It's all we do.... and we will never stop and sit and cry about a setback. We live for setbacks because it makes it that much sweeter when we do go out there and make incredible stuff happen.

That's what being a Coug is all about. I never forgot. I hope others will remember.






This post was edited on 2/6 6:18 AM by Cougatron

 

[cr8zyncalif]

Decades of poor leadership from the president's position, often combined with a mediocre AD, yield the results that we all know. The majority of our problems have been self-inflicted.

I cannot overstate how impressed I am with Elson Floyd. For those of you who never really knew previous presidents, let me state my humble opinion that we have not had anyone remotely comparable (certainly from an athletics standpoint, and arguably in many other areas, as well) since the '70's. It has been that long since we had a really good president who also had Elson's people skills. Bill Moos is a very good choice, but he would not be nearly as effective without Elson as his boss.

If you have any length of time in terms of perspective, you have to like what you see today across the entire athletic spectrum vs. any time since Ravelling and the early version of Walden, along with Bobo and our period when we had two solid track coaches. All that took place at the same time, during an age when facilities were not the issue that they have become in the 21st century. And it all fell apart when the leadership changed…and humpty dumpty wasn't really re-assembled until we got Elson and Bill. Yes, there were occasional peaks; but not in multiple sports, and not at the same time. Those successes were more due to individual HC's than due to organizational competence.

Having just finished a 3-9 football season, it is easy to miss the signs of overall progress. But it is there. It is visible. And it is the most encouraging time to be a Coug in years.

 

[SDCoug]

Best post I've read since... well I can't remember a better one.

Thanks for articulating what I'm sure many of us more "quiet" folks feel.
Posted from Rivals Mobile

This post was edited on 2/6 1:19 PM by SDCoug

This post was edited on 2/6 9:27 PM by SDCoug

 

[Observer11]

Damn straight. Excellent post.

 

[CougPatrol]

Agree with you mostly, but there's also a counterpoint here...

We cry because we care. We cry because we've been losing for over a decade now; immediately following our best run in school history. We cry about recruiting heartbreaks because we're looking for something, anything to hang onto during the rebuild.

Speaking for myself, I cry because we seemingly NEVER win ANY of our home games. Pull the RV to Pullman, enjoy the build up, sit down, excited on game day, promptly fall behind by 30 points. What's really funny is that losing by 30 points under Leach is an improvement over losing to the tune of 69-0 during the previous regime.

You say stop crying....I say, start winning. Give me something to smile about.

 

[wazzubruce]

Great post Crazy..... all true !!

 

[405 Coug]

Great post,

And Patrol I understand your frustration with the home games, driving 4 to5 hours one way to watch a them fall behind early is depressing. However if you look at the Oregon and Cal games last year, both depressing losses, but both entertaining games.

So let's look ahead here are the home games for 2015

Portland St
Wyoming
Oregon St
Stanford
Arizona St
Colorado.

I see 4 wins, anything less is disappointing, the goal should be to win every home game, but 4 of 6 next year is a good start.

Road Games:

Rutgers
Cal
Oregon
Arizona
UCLA
Washington

Should pull out 2-3 here, the Cougs have played well on the road.

So 6 or 7 wins next year is my prediction, and I hope there is more.

 

[CougEd]

Was it over when th eGermans bombed Pearl Harbor?

I missed your passion from 2007 to 2012.

 

[CougSinceBirth]

A-freaking-men. +1

 

[YakiCoug]

Re: Was it over when th eGermans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Originally posted by CougEd:
I missed your passion from 2007 to 2012.

Ed exuded enough passion 2008-2011 for the rest of us.

 

[Coug1990]

Re: Was it over when th eGermans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Originally posted by CougEd:
I missed your passion from 2007 to 2012.

Did you hear that on ESPN this morning with Michael Grey? It is funny (and sad that we are old) that they have no idea about Animal House.

 

[SideWaysDown]

CougATron- thank you. Thank you, thank you.