Hell no it wasn't! Nobody wanted him around. He was fired halfway through a WINLESS season. Losing is unacceptable at a program with high standards. We like winning games, losing sucks. That's why we have a coach that is doing it for us now. If you think it's a good idea to give a guy with a beat season of 4 wins, almost half of his 4 year total, more years than you are a just a stereotypical cooooog, with a stereotypical cooooog losing mentality.

Hey, he was 9-40........I dont give a [censored]. When they fired Doba..he had just won the Apple Cup.
I hear the staff abondoned Doba and didn't go out recruiting. Well to me it seems they should've fired his whole staff and replaced them.

I mean give me a fukn break. WSU is not USC, UCLA, UW or anywhere else in the Pac with BIG TIME programs.

They win a few games and get spoiled. Worst mistake ever, firing DOBA. Those boffoons then hire a guy that goes 9-40, yeah 9-40....DOBA would've done better than that, with me as his defensive or offensive doordinator....jeez 9-40....i mean FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK

these last four years have been unbearable...i became numb to it a long time ago....jeez!

Scott Woodward would never have hired Willingham. That was Todd Turner's mistake and he paid for it. He said he wanted to hire someone that would give the program a buzz.
Tyrone giving a program a buzz was like trying to find the pulse on someone who has been dead for a week.
As he would have said himself "Coach Willingham don't believe in the buzz".

The only thing I didn't like about Coach Wulff is that he put the blame on everybody else...not himself. He had to go .

Sign Coach Leach and let's kick some husky @ss.

Mf

That's a fine think to say when you are gonna be sending lots of money over there next year. How about buying a suite so we can go over and watch games? I bet they will put ChuckS's name on it too!

We don't want Sark, he doesn't coach defense either.

A couple more years of sub 8 win seasons, and Sark will be getting his.

Mf

So the c00gs suckle at the the Huskies' teat ?

That backfired, mf

Hey, it's got to be one tough job to try to build a good program out of someone else's failed mess.
Friggin' Harbaugh did pretty dam good with 'Niners, though.

Four UW defensive players from last year went the NFL. What replacements there were, were young, inexperienced, undersized, and not there yet. Add injuries to that list and you've got a defense that is young and is/did/will give up a lot of yards, points, etc.

Might as well just bookmark this post. Come back in 2 years and tell me how crappy the UW defense is.

Hate to break the news to you, but the UW defense can ONLY get better over the next few years....and it was good enough this year to beat the Coogs and get in to a bowl game.

Poor delusional Coogs.

Can't blame the Coogs for being all frowny-faced, it gets old perpetually rebuilding the football program , coach after coach. I have a Washington State sweatshirt that has Rose Bowl 2003 embroidered on it. Its gonna be a collectible, for sure.

The best thing the WSU Athletic Department did was fire the men's basketball coach, Graham I think it was, and hire Tony Bennett.

When was the last time WSU fired a football coach?

According to Steve Kelley tonight, Bill Moos has received the biggest donation in athletic department history. When Bill Moos said today that being a doormat is no longer an option, he became the first WSU AD I can remember that actually said what the fan base has been wanting to hear for a really long time. Now make it happen.

Bennet screwed himself by going to Virginia.

Nobody is better off staying in Pullman.

"Pullman is the Pac-12's Lubbock, only with better bars.

Better bars for locking players in the storage shed?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/cougars/2016895773_coug01.html#.TtabSflkwgE.facebook

Yeah, looks like Leach will be the guy. Good hire.

Fish on...

Todd

I've never been to Pullman, but I can vouch for the fact that the bars in Lubbock SUCK.

As a Texas alum, I have a lot of respect for Mike Leach, and I think he is a great hire for WSU. I don't know how much Pullman and Lubbock really have in common as cities, but I do think the Tech and WSU football programs face a lot of similar challenges, particularly with recruiting top talent. Leach overcame Tech's chronic lack of five star recruits by employing a system of offense that made marginal players deadly effective against all but the very best defenses in the nation. Most of his tenure, Leach had Tech competing for the Big 12 South championship right up to the end, which was a remarkable feat, considering the superior talent he faced at schools like Texas, Oklahoma, and Texas A&M. After establishing Tech as a true contender in the Big 12, Leach started getting some solid receivers to come to Lubbock (Wes Welker, Danny Amendola, and Michael Crabtree, to name a few), and he almost managed to take Tech to a national championship. I will be surprised if he doesn't turn some heads very quickly in the Pac-12.

Even if the wins don't start piling up right away, Leach will provide excitement from the get go. To give you Coogs out there a glimpse of what's coming to Martin Stadium soon, consider my personal favorite Leach quote (or paraphrase):

A lot of teams like to use the run to establish the pass. I like to use the pass to
establish the pass.

It makes for some very entertaining football. I can think of a few schools that had better shore up their defenses in a hurry.

Besides all that, Leach is quite the eccentric, which makes for some interesting interviews. The equipment shed incident was bizarre and troubling, but they'd give anything to have Leach back at Tech. My Dad lives in Lubbock and is a big Tech fan. He tells me they are still bitter about the way the Tech A.D. railroaded Leach out.

If you ask me, they're in for a treat on the Palouse.

Kudos to the Coogs for stepping up to the plate.