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[Cougini5591]

Three Rhode Island teachers who were fired for refusing COVID vaccine were offered jobs back after settlement

Three Rhode Island teachers who were fired for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 were offered their jobs back after a legal settlement.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Observer11]

Kind of shocked there wasn't any post on this last week.

Former WSU football coach Nick Rolovich asks for vaccine-related firing lawsuit to proceed

Former Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich was in a Spokane courtroom Thursday, asking a federal judge to allow his case to continue against his former employer for firing him after his refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

www.spokesman.com

 

[BiggsCoug]

I hope he loses and never coaches college football again. He is a turd. What a f’ing joke of a coach he was.

 

[95coug]

The Rhode Island case is irrelevant, it’s a different situation and different rules. Plus, it’s being settled for convenience, not litigated. Still wouldn’t surprise me if Rolovich’s case goes the same way for expediency.

I think WSU made a mistake referring to “skepticism about the sincerity of his beliefs.” That’s a losing argument for them, and one that puts them in a position that looks more discriminatory. They should rely entirely on the argument that he couldn’t effectively perform his duties with an accommodation.

If this judge lets it go forward, WSU settles. My guess is he tosses it.

 

[Coug90]

Three Rhode Island teachers who were fired for refusing COVID vaccine were offered jobs back after settlement

Three Rhode Island teachers who were fired for refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19 were offered their jobs back after a legal settlement.

www.foxnews.com

Did these teachers suck at their jobs too? Still don’t get the Rolo sympathy. I got no problem with those who are/were against the vax…dude got outscored 38-0…after halftime…twice…in 11 games. Like…if this was in the first half against USC they would have kneeled on our 10 yard line bad.

 

[BiggsCoug]

The Rhode Island case is irrelevant, it’s a different situation and different rules. Plus, it’s being settled for convenience, not litigated. Still wouldn’t surprise me if Rolovich’s case goes the same way for expediency.

I think WSU made a mistake referring to “skepticism about the sincerity of his beliefs.” That’s a losing argument for them, and one that puts them in a position that looks more discriminatory. They should rely entirely on the argument that he couldn’t effectively perform his duties with an accommodation.

If this judge lets it go forward, WSU settles. My guess is he tosses it.

I’d love to see his exemption form.

 

[anon_1nb5kgc7kwlls]

I hope Rolo gets paid. Forcing someone to get a vaccine in order to keep their job is insanity. Especially now with how much we know the vaccine sucks ass.

(In before people vouch for the effectiveness of the vaccine who also get 100% of their information from news sources that are paid by big pharma) yawnnnn

 

[Flatlandcoug]

I hope Rolo gets paid. Forcing someone to get a vaccine in order to keep their job is insanity. Especially now with how much we know the vaccine sucks ass.

(In before people vouch for the effectiveness of the vaccine who also get 100% of their information from news sources that are paid by big pharma) yawnnnn

**** Rolovich. He's the only idiot that got fired because he was the only coach of a Power 5 program who put himself ahead of everyone else. He's a terrible leader and we are better off without him. I always laugh at people like you that cry about the vaccine because the whole fight against it was so stupid.

I know dozens, if not hundreds of people, who got the vaccine without any major side effects. I also personally knew almost a dozen people who died from COVID. All of the statistics out there suggest that even if the vaccine isn't as effective as marketed, only aluminum foil wearing nutbags were fighting against the vaccine. Rolovich made a choice and he lost his job. Lots of people have to follow "mandates" to keep their jobs and do it.

I hope Rolovich loses the court case and dies penniless on the sidewalks of Oahu. **** that guy.

 

[M-I-Coug]

Kind of shocked there wasn't any post on this last week.

Former WSU football coach Nick Rolovich asks for vaccine-related firing lawsuit to proceed

Former Washington State University football coach Nick Rolovich was in a Spokane courtroom Thursday, asking a federal judge to allow his case to continue against his former employer for firing him after his refusal to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

www.spokesman.com

I thought about posting it, last week but didn't because....
Mostly everyone on this board is tired of Rolo and the Rolo story.
Time for Rolo to move on.
He's just not popular, and frankly, no-one hardly cares.
I agree with Justin above....shouldn't have gotten fired over a flu vaccine. Plus, agree, the vaccine is not that great.
For most of us, it was the flu. (Except for the people who died, very sad).
Also agree with Flatland above.
Not a great leader. Might be a leader....but not a great leader.
But to white lie? Regarding his faith? I don't know him personally, but I think that was a white lie.
A tree is known by its fruit.

 

[95coug]

I’d love to see his exemption form.

It was turned in at the last minute, we know. My guess is that it was written in crayon.

 

[Loyal Coug1]

I hope Rolo gets paid. Forcing someone to get a vaccine in order to keep their job is insanity. Especially now with how much we know the vaccine sucks ass.

(In before people vouch for the effectiveness of the vaccine who also get 100% of their information from news sources that are paid by big pharma) yawnnnn

WTF is wrong with you? The Vaccines helped - a lot. All the independent stats showed that the vast majority of serious cases and deaths were unvaxxed people. Were they the cure all? no. Did they help a lot? Yes. I'm glad I have my 4 jabs (J&J, Pfizer and recently Moderna). F-ing Rolo was an idiot. The Pope was telling people to get vaxxed. The big mistake was for any state to even have this BS religious exemption. No major religion opposed the vaccines. There were no fetuses involved in the vaccine's development.

Some of you are such stupid f-ers. Like all the Trump loving freaks, the Qanon believers, election deniers, etc. Our country is so ****ed with all you types. And I'm no libtard.

 

[longtimecoug]

The Rhode Island case is irrelevant, it’s a different situation and different rules. Plus, it’s being settled for convenience, not litigated. Still wouldn’t surprise me if Rolovich’s case goes the same way for expediency.

I think WSU made a mistake referring to “skepticism about the sincerity of his beliefs.” That’s a losing argument for them, and one that puts them in a position that looks more discriminatory. They should rely entirely on the argument that he couldn’t effectively perform his duties with an accommodation.

If this judge lets it go forward, WSU settles. My guess is he tosses it.

he got his exemption, just not an accommodation, everybody including June Jones was skeptical about his sincerity

 

[longtimecoug]

I thought about posting it, last week but didn't because....
Mostly everyone on this board is tired of Rolo and the Rolo story.
Time for Rolo to move on.
He's just not popular, and frankly, no-one hardly cares.
I agree with Justin above....shouldn't have gotten fired over a flu vaccine. Plus, agree, the vaccine is not that great.
For most of us, it was the flu. (Except for the people who died, very sad).
Also agree with Flatland above.
Not a great leader. Might be a leader....but not a great leader.
But to white lie? Regarding his faith? I don't know him personally, but I think that was a white lie.
A tree is known by its fruit.

more like bold faced lie

 

[longtimecoug]

I hope Rolo gets paid. Forcing someone to get a vaccine in order to keep their job is insanity. Especially now with how much we know the vaccine sucks ass.

(In before people vouch for the effectiveness of the vaccine who also get 100% of their information from news sources that are paid by big pharma) yawnnnn

as opposed to getting information from some you tube loser

 

[95coug]

he got his exemption, just not an accommodation, everybody including June Jones was skeptical about his sincerity

Yes. But leaning into the argument that he couldn’t do his job without an accommodation is a stronger position than ‘we don’t think he’s that religious.’ They opened the door for him to line up character witnesses and undermine their position. WSU shouldn’t let this be about religion at all.

 

[whoisyaodaddy]

Well...we are left with Dickert. A hard working, good guy coach....who will soon drive WSU down to the bottom third of the PAC 12. I have a feeling we are in for some tough years. It's not all Dickert's fault. NIL and conference realignment is NOT and will never be an advantage for a school like WSU. Like Jessie said in Breaking Bad..."I don't need a criminal defense lawyer, I need a CRIMINAL defense lawyer!" We need a Saul type to be WSU's head coach. The days of graduation rates and team synergy is over. If we want to win we need to be a little criminal about it.

 

[BiggsCoug]

Well...we are left with Dickert. A hard working, good guy coach....who will soon drive WSU down to the bottom third of the PAC 12. I have a feeling we are in for some tough years. It's not all Dickert's fault. NIL and conference realignment is NOT and will never be an advantage for a school like WSU. Like Jessie said in Breaking Bad..."I don't need a criminal defense lawyer, I need a CRIMINAL defense lawyer!" We need a Saul type to be WSU's head coach. The days of graduation rates and team synergy is over. If we want to win we need to be a little criminal about it.

WSU is getting its innocence back. Good guy coach, cheer for mediocrity, die on the hill of the right way. Paul Wulff cheers for WSU’s rebirth after Leach left.

 

[CougSinceBirth]

WSU football was going into the gutter the moment they hired Rolo.

That showed me Schulz and Chun had no idea what they were doing.

 

[Flatlandcoug]

Well...we are left with Dickert. A hard working, good guy coach....who will soon drive WSU down to the bottom third of the PAC 12. I have a feeling we are in for some tough years. It's not all Dickert's fault. NIL and conference realignment is NOT and will never be an advantage for a school like WSU. Like Jessie said in Breaking Bad..."I don't need a criminal defense lawyer, I need a CRIMINAL defense lawyer!" We need a Saul type to be WSU's head coach. The days of graduation rates and team synergy is over. If we want to win we need to be a little criminal about it.

It's way too early to give up on Dickert. The teams that we lost to last year went a collective 62-19 last year (10-3 average record). We didn't lose to scrubs. Our last five wins were double digit victories (albeit against admittedly bad competition). We may end up in the bottom third of the league because of the NIL fubar that's going on, but if anything, he's met or exceeded expectations.

Looking back at last year, everyone knew that 7-5 was our likely best result. Everyone figured that we'd lose to Wisconsin but might beat Oregon State or UW. Oregon, USC, and Utah were teams that we knew would be tough. Nobody knew that Penix was going to be such a stud for UW.

Unless things change drastically, we will always be in the position to compete well against Arizona, ASU, Cal, Oregon State and Stanford. Only time will tell if CU will succeed with Primetime, but the last 20 years says that even if they do well with him, he's going to move on and they'll regress back to terrible. UW and Oregon are always going to have an advantage on us and Utah has proven that they should be expected to win 10+ games every single year. So yeah, we are unlikely to be in top 25% of the conference very often, but I personally believe that Dickert is good enough to keep us in the top half. If we pick up SDSU, SMU, Fresno State or UNLV...or some other team from a lesser league, we'll have a shot against them. Schedule OOC games intelligently and we should always be able to eke out a bowl game even in our down years.

I think the bigger picture question with Dickert is whether or not WSU fans can really live with finishing between 6-8 wins per year and not have the moments of glory that we have occasionally gotten to enjoy. Can Dickert actually get us to 9 wins? He hasn't shown that yet. Again, the NIL and how WSU fans step up is more important than Dickert at this point.

 

[roses04]

Dickert has been here a year and a half, he had one season to get to 9 wins, and it wasn't going to happen last year, but, Dickert could get us 9 wins this year, if he only gets 7 wins this year, I'd say he did an average job., 8 is good, 9 wins or more a great job.
Look at the schedule. Col St, NCU, Ariz, Stan, Cal and Colorado, based upon what we know today, those should be 6 wins right there, Dickert's teams don't normally beat themselves, a loss in any of those 6 and you don't get to 9 wins.
Now you have 6 remaining games, you will be underdogs, but stand a chance.
Wisc, OSU, UCLA, ASU, Oregon, and UW. Cougs are capable of winning any of those 6 no way they win 6, but going 3-3 against those teams isn't impossible if we show an offense this year, and some resemblance of a defense. Wisc and OSU are at home, need to find a way to get those 2, ASU is probably the most likely chance of the remaining 4 on the road, Cougs played UCLA and Oregon tough over the years , and then UW, that's another story, if Penix is still standing that's a tough one.

 

[Loyal Coug1]

Dickert has been here a year and a half, he had one season to get to 9 wins, and it wasn't going to happen last year, but, Dickert could get us 9 wins this year, if he only gets 7 wins this year, I'd say he did an average job., 8 is good, 9 wins or more a great job.
Look at the schedule. Col St, NCU, Ariz, Stan, Cal and Colorado, based upon what we know today, those should be 6 wins right there, Dickert's teams don't normally beat themselves, a loss in any of those 6 and you don't get to 9 wins.
Now you have 6 remaining games, you will be underdogs, but stand a chance.
Wisc, OSU, UCLA, ASU, Oregon, and UW. Cougs are capable of winning any of those 6 no way they win 6, but going 3-3 against those teams isn't impossible if we show an offense this year, and some resemblance of a defense. Wisc and OSU are at home, need to find a way to get those 2, ASU is probably the most likely chance of the remaining 4 on the road, Cougs played UCLA and Oregon tough over the years , and then UW, that's another story, if Penix is still standing that's a tough one.

Still can't believe that Wisconsin is actually going to come to Pullman. Wow, wow and wow.

 

[Coug90]

Well...we are left with Dickert. A hard working, good guy coach....who will soon drive WSU down to the bottom third of the PAC 12. I have a feeling we are in for some tough years. It's not all Dickert's fault. NIL and conference realignment is NOT and will never be an advantage for a school like WSU. Like Jessie said in Breaking Bad..."I don't need a criminal defense lawyer, I need a CRIMINAL defense lawyer!" We need a Saul type to be WSU's head coach. The days of graduation rates and team synergy is over. If we want to win we need to be a little criminal about it.

Still not sure how some are coming to this conclusion. He’s got a winning record in 1.5 years and is 1-1 in ACs. At the least the jury is still out.

BTW we are bottom third of the conference historically so if that’s where we land then he’s an average WSU coach…reality, we have been middle of the pac so far, so I’m optimistic. That what I want? No. But what I see from his teams so far is that they play hard and are disciplined, which is a damn good starting point especially when comparing w Rolo.

 

[Coug90]

It's way too early to give up on Dickert. The teams that we lost to last year went a collective 62-19 last year (10-3 average record). We didn't lose to scrubs. Our last five wins were double digit victories (albeit against admittedly bad competition). We may end up in the bottom third of the league because of the NIL fubar that's going on, but if anything, he's met or exceeded expectations.

Looking back at last year, everyone knew that 7-5 was our likely best result. Everyone figured that we'd lose to Wisconsin but might beat Oregon State or UW. Oregon, USC, and Utah were teams that we knew would be tough. Nobody knew that Penix was going to be such a stud for UW.

Unless things change drastically, we will always be in the position to compete well against Arizona, ASU, Cal, Oregon State and Stanford. Only time will tell if CU will succeed with Primetime, but the last 20 years says that even if they do well with him, he's going to move on and they'll regress back to terrible. UW and Oregon are always going to have an advantage on us and Utah has proven that they should be expected to win 10+ games every single year. So yeah, we are unlikely to be in top 25% of the conference very often, but I personally believe that Dickert is good enough to keep us in the top half. If we pick up SDSU, SMU, Fresno State or UNLV...or some other team from a lesser league, we'll have a shot against them. Schedule OOC games intelligently and we should always be able to eke out a bowl game even in our down years.

I think the bigger picture question with Dickert is whether or not WSU fans can really live with finishing between 6-8 wins per year and not have the moments of glory that we have occasionally gotten to enjoy. Can Dickert actually get us to 9 wins? He hasn't shown that yet. Again, the NIL and how WSU fans step up is more important than Dickert at this point.

He’s basically had one opportunity to get 9 wins. With a new QB.

It’s bizarre to me how quickly people are dismissing him as accepting mediocrity. I was here when I was watching the spring game and I’ll double down on my thoughts…that’s a WELL coached team. I saw spring games with every coach from price to Dickert and they are usually fricken slop fests. This game was clean, crisp, few penalties or mental errors. Just not something you typically see in April. Can’t see how that won’t carry over to September. Always hard to tell now how a season might play out, but I expect them to surprise to the upside.

 

[longtimecoug]

Yes. But leaning into the argument that he couldn’t do his job without an accommodation is a stronger position than ‘we don’t think he’s that religious.’ They opened the door for him to line up character witnesses and undermine their position. WSU shouldn’t let this be about religion at all.

It isnt about religion, he got his waiver, wsu was under no obligation to accommodate him

 

[BiggsCoug]

Dickert has been here a year and a half, he had one season to get to 9 wins, and it wasn't going to happen last year, but, Dickert could get us 9 wins this year, if he only gets 7 wins this year, I'd say he did an average job., 8 is good, 9 wins or more a great job.
Look at the schedule. Col St, NCU, Ariz, Stan, Cal and Colorado, based upon what we know today, those should be 6 wins right there, Dickert's teams don't normally beat themselves, a loss in any of those 6 and you don't get to 9 wins.
Now you have 6 remaining games, you will be underdogs, but stand a chance.
Wisc, OSU, UCLA, ASU, Oregon, and UW. Cougs are capable of winning any of those 6 no way they win 6, but going 3-3 against those teams isn't impossible if we show an offense this year, and some resemblance of a defense. Wisc and OSU are at home, need to find a way to get those 2, ASU is probably the most likely chance of the remaining 4 on the road, Cougs played UCLA and Oregon tough over the years , and then UW, that's another story, if Penix is still standing that's a tough one.

The schedule has a lot of teams that are/were bad or have new HCs or assistants. A well prepared, well coached program should win those games with a sound effort from staff and players. If WSU is losing to those teams, well, not good news.

 

[Watson2Coleman]

I hope Rolo gets paid. Forcing someone to get a vaccine in order to keep their job is insanity. Especially now with how much we know the vaccine sucks ass.

(In before people vouch for the effectiveness of the vaccine who also get 100% of their information from news sources that are paid by big pharma) yawnnnn

Justin..., is your IQ above room temperature? Your comments suggest otherwise.

 

[Loyal Coug1]

Justin..., is your IQ above room temperature? Your comments suggest otherwise.

Spot on dude......

 

[CougSinceBirth]

Still can't believe that Wisconsin is actually going to come to Pullman. Wow, wow and wow.

I think I would be more surprised with another B1G team coming than Wisconsin. Wisconsin has strapped them up and played at Reiser ('12), Tempe ('13), Tucson ('04), Eugene ('01), etc.

Much respect to them.

 

[95coug]

It isnt about religion, he got his waiver, wsu was under no obligation to accommodate him

Yes…but they (apparently) raised it in their response (skepticism about sincerity of his beliefs). Even if it’s true, they should leave it out. Just argue that he couldn’t be accommodated. Mentioning religion clouds the issue.

 

[anon_1nb5kgc7kwlls]

Justin..., is your IQ above room temperature? Your comments suggest otherwise.

Depends on the rooms temperature teeheheh

 

[Watson2Coleman]

Depends on the rooms temperature teeheheh

Most people prefer about 72. I would guess you keep it around 50.

 

[anon_1nb5kgc7kwlls]

Most people prefer about 72. I would guess you keep it around 50.

Oh dang I'm mildly retarded, that sucks

I could go on forever.

You people trying to force that trash vaccine down peoples throats are crazy.

Exercise? Crickets...... Vitamin D? Crickets...... Natural Immunity? Crickets.....

 

[Watson2Coleman]

Pro tip Justin, ignorance is not a virtue.

 

[mikalalas]

Well...we are left with Dickert. A hard working, good guy coach....who will soon drive WSU down to the bottom third of the PAC 12. I have a feeling we are in for some tough years. It's not all Dickert's fault. NIL and conference realignment is NOT and will never be an advantage for a school like WSU. Like Jessie said in Breaking Bad..."I don't need a criminal defense lawyer, I need a CRIMINAL defense lawyer!" We need a Saul type to be WSU's head coach. The days of graduation rates and team synergy is over. If we want to win we need to be a little criminal about it.

So far Dickert has led WSU to 7 wins his interim year.

And 7 wins his first FULL year, which was his 2nd year.

So 2 back to back 7 win seasons, to start his coaching career, something that NO OTHER WSU COACH HAS DONE IN WSU'S HISTORY.

And Dickert has done a pretty dam good job replacing what was lost thru transfer portal, 1,2 NIL Deals, JC Transfer, Grad Transfer, good HS recruiting.

Dickert got 2 GOOD OL TRANFERS.

At LB, WSU got 2 awesome LB transfers, and Cedarland, and the others have done well in the Spring Game.

At WR, Dickert got 2 WR transfers.

And Sheffield, is ELECTRIFYINGLY AWESOME.

And Nunaly, and the other WR's looked good in Spring Game.

Cam Ward, Arbuckle looked awesome in Spring Game, and Mateer also looks good.

At DT Dickert just got a AWESOME transfer.

Dickert will at extreme worst case minimum win at least 5,6 games, and has a chance at 7, 8, 9 wins.

Under Dickert, WSU could easily end up having started the first 3 years of his HC career at WSU with at least 7 wins, which would be the best ever start to a WSU coaches career in WSU's history.

 

[BiggsCoug]

Who on this team can you point to as a pro prospect and will be in a NFL camp?

 

[Loyal Coug1]

Who on this team can you point to as a pro prospect and will be in a NFL camp?

Mateer - in 2-3 years.

 

[BiggsCoug]

Mateer - in 2-3 years.

Never played lol

 

[Coug90]

Oh dang I'm mildly retarded, that sucks

I could go on forever.

You people trying to force that trash vaccine down peoples throats are crazy.

Exercise? Crickets...... Vitamin D? Crickets...... Natural Immunity? Crickets.....

Confirmation bias. Maybe you will be ultimately proven right, who the hell knows, until then it’s just stuff you look up to prove yourself right. Not a slight on you, people do this with a lot of stuff especially w social media.

 

[Coug90]

Who on this team can you point to as a pro prospect and will be in a NFL camp?

Didn’t he bring in Henley? And historically we are probably one NFL player a year on avg.

 

[Cougini5591]

Who on this team can you point to as a pro prospect and will be in a NFL camp?

Great question. I'm going Brennan Jackson, but he is a tweener.

Ron Stone. Devin Richardson.