Wow, he’s either crazy/demented/dillusional or he’s the greatest con-man/rainmaker of all time! Either way takes hutz pah. Quick everyone follow the smiling man in the band uniform to the ticket booth and put your money down on tickets for 2010 Cougar Football,__ it’ll be raining wins!!!! Nuss you have got more faith than I do and God bless you for it. I’m just cynical right now. Burnt to a crispy golden brown, (like ND helmets).

I don’t want to see a hyped up Cougar advertising blitz or hear a single pump-you-up radio campaign ad until it’s earned. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me,fool me a thrid time and what,…? I just know the marketing folks are going to go nuts and it’s just going to turn people off. In the words of the late great Chris Farley, "In the name of all that is good and right, stop before my head explodes!!"

Please WSU athletics and marketing, save the sales pitches and promises. Let the coaching staff do some recruiting, do some disciplining of the outlaws, re-organize the coaches, etc. etc. Don’t promise us anything until we actually win a few games. Credibility guys. Credibility. We just finished PW’s first two seasons 3 & WHAT? 21???? We’ve blamed everyone from the former coach to the players, to other programs, but our coach hasn’t assumed any himself. We scored less than 9 points a game in the , PAC-10. We’ve got way to much to do to be wasting time making predictions or promises via the all too hype prone airways!! Let us breathe a year, make some progress, gain some respectability for the program and players who are on the field, let us create a track record,_ do something, then,_ and only then, let the marketing firms go nuts! Crank up the hype and get us giddy about the coming year, that year being 2013.

Displaced Coug, I agree a bowl game is always the goal. But if I were to be advising PW right now, (and obviuosly I’m not nor is anyone in the AD’s office), I’d tell him to forget the word, ‘bowl’. He needs to talk about the learning curve and communicate to us the fans, season ticket holders and stadium builders that he gets it.

It’s not up to him to create any off field excitement, his job is to create wins and you can’t do that creating expectations they’ll never achieve next year. It just frustrates the heck out of us. And that grain of salt you talk about is just rubbed into a two year old wound. The AD is not doing him any favors by allowing him/putting him out there to be Mr. ‘Excitement’. Again, we can’t score,_ we give up points at an unbelievable rate,_ mistakes and the pace of the game are boring and express confusion and a losers mentality,__ that is not a recipe for excitement in Pullman. Maybe in Pasadena or Eugene, and certianly in Seattle or anywhere else we are scheduled to play them the next week!?!?!

Finally, you say we should take what PW says with a grain of salt,_ well that’s exactly what I’m doing, don’t want too?, but that’s just the way it is right now after two seasons and a 3-21 record. Then you say to not blast PW for ‘having a little confidence’,_ man there is a time for that and there’s a time to shut yer mouth, but on your hard hat, grab your lunch pail and get to work. I know they have to make the coaches available to the press and that he needs to say something, but I can think of a hundred ways to express confidence that we’ll make progress next year without PW in the picture, mentioning a ‘bowl’ game, or acting like nothing is wrong and we just came off a 5 or 6 win season!!! Please,_ Ath. Dept. use some common sense here!

I want my Cougs to stun us all next year and win 5-6 games but I’m not out telling everyone, (who by the way would then say you were dillusional and needed help available only at Medical Lake or Orofino) that we’ll be competetive enough to be considering bowling!?!?!?! PW has a lot of other things to do with his time that might actually win games rather than being the face of confidence.

I think displacedcoug is right that the media was planning on asking PW the question they asked, I knew they would, you knew they would, PW didn’t know they would? The Ath. Dept. didn’t anticipate that? Be prepared. It’s like no one inside Pullman has a clue as to how bad Coug football is percieved right now?!?!? Is football new there??? These guys are all paid great money to know this kind of stuff and to come into an end of the year (a terrible/embarressing/losing year) and not be aware that the media may fish around and to be hooked is just amatuerish.

I also agree that PW probably wasn’t trying a publicity stunt, (that would require some planning and prep), but he was absolutely creating an expectation. Because he now has some very weighty expectations placed on himself and his staff to win or move aside. I’m pretty sure they feel it and again I can’t blame them for being encouraging about what they see behind the scenes, it’s just that without the back-up of a few more wins,__ maybe they could/should go into the post season media wrap-up prepared and with a sense of how they are seen right now by alot of Coug supporters.

Shouldn’t be,_ know better,_ but it just kicks me in the gut to see us so far in the hole. Then to have people who should know better in Pullman pull the dumb crap they do just compounds my mania! Sorry. I really do hope we can turn it around and win 4-5 games in 2010 for a miracle year!