Paul Wulff Fired As Head Coach Of Washington State Cougars, According To Report

Hey Bill, was this your decision or did you carry out orders?

I would have liked to have seen one more year. Best wishes to Wulff, he is a true Coug. It’s going to be interesting to see who comes next (like that needed to be said, but I said it anyway).

I sure Wulff knows something needs to happen to invigorate the fan base. Sizzle and Steak!

The guy has my respect for taking the hits and yet remaining confident, even if it didn’t work out in the end. Not sure anyone that took that job was going to last long.

He isn’t going to be the coach here. You are like the Mariner fans thinking that Albert Pujols is going to come to Seattle. He will not come here to coach and even if he did, he would leave here hated by all. A good person loses their job and you all are calling for some pompous a—hole

And so it goes.

The place is just buzzing. Everyone knows or seems to be in the process of being told. It’s kinda surreal.

But I do know that my school (Texas Tech Alumni) is deeply divided since he left. There is a strong faction mainly current students and recent alumni and the few T-shirts fans we picked up because of his antics that rever him as a god that could do no wrong and view his ousting was unfair. This group still dresses as Pirates to the games, continues to slam the Administration, and Tuberville.

While I graduated in 2002 I do not consider myself in this group. He will improve your team, without a doubt. You will score points and be competitive in nearly every game you play. Seven, eight, nine win seasons should be expected. However as an earlier poster mentioned his massive ego and unwillingness to do anything he doesn’t want to do make him a pain in the ass at times. After his 3rd year at Tech he refused to do anymore Alumni speakings. He never did anything with big boosters – ie play golf, meet with them etc. – the things you do to keep them happy and sending $$$. On the football field while competitve he won on the road only once in Austin, Stillwater, and Norman. He was 2-8 vs. UT. The two times a win would have put us in the conference championship he was blown out. He feasted on A&M in argurably their worst decade of football in the last 50 years and that endured him to our fanbase. Defensively, it seemed he didn’t care. Give up a TD, FG, or force a punt he just wanted the ball back. He had an inate ability to lose games that the team had no business losing, 2005 Oklahoma State comes to mind then blame the loss on the players, elements, turf, fat girlfriends, seemingly anyone but himself. He seemed to want to be in any place but Lubbock, interviewing for several jobs while at Tech, and while never a serious candidate, would have his team spread untrue rumors about his candidacy at said jobs to try and get more money out of Tech.

I don’t want to come across as a guy that hates him or is ungrateful, because if you look at pictures of Jones Stadium in 1999 and compare to 2010 his era is 100% responsible for the improvements. (We basically had a double decker trailer on the home side for coaches, now there are several levels of luxury boxes on both sides). Tech went from the irrelevant little brother to the slightly less irrelevant little brother with a weird, quirky coach who at the time ran a very gimmicky offense that no one could stop. Except for that 1 magical year where we #2 at the highest point Tech never really challenged for a BIG XII South Title in his tenure. Admittedly I may seem biased here, but he is suing my University and shows no signs of backing down. I also want to state that I think TTU administration handled this poorly. And make no mistake this had nothing to do with the Adam James incident – that was an excuse to fire him.

Sorry to read about your head coach. From all accounts he seems like a stand up guy. Unfortunately that doesn’t allow you to keep your job when Wins and Losses are involved. Good luck, unless our schools cross paths then I hope we beat the hell outta you guys.

should be willing to meet anytime, anywhere with alumni or anyone else the university wants them to. I mean, if we’re going to be paying the guy $100,000 or more per month for the privilege of coaching Cougars football that individual should wake up every morning and thank the gods for the good fortune that is being heaped on his head and be happy to meet and greet the people that make his good fortune possible.

As for Leach, if we’re already talking about his prima donna tendencies what will he be like in Pullman? Can we expect a transformation? I wonder because, as I’ve said before, I do not want our school to sell its soul and hire someone that is less then 100% ethical in exchange for a few more wins on a play field. There are many, many good men out there that know how to coach and that can be successful at WSU and who would also be grateful to have the opportunity to do so, and they are the ones we should focus our attention on.