Over the course of his introduction to the Pullman public on Thursday, new Washington State football coach Jimmy Rogers seemed an awful lot like the coach who just left.
SAN DIEGO – It may not be a trophy, but a depleted Washington State football team returned from the Holiday Bowl with some other prizes for its beleaguered fanbase: joy and expectations.
The football coaches are going to leave. If that is not clear to you yet, it may never be. The football coaches are going to leave. If you ask them about it, they will lie. So, stop asking unless you want to be lied to.
Cougar Collective, by all accounts you did amazing work putting together a roughly million-dollar package to keep Washington State’s star quarterback. It didn’t work. It’s time to try something else.
If there is any label to be put on the 2024 Washington State football season, it would have to include, in some way, John Mateer’s name. Even, like Saturday and the two weeks previous, the close defeats.