Tim DeRuyter woke Monday morning and when his feet hit the ground, he was ready go to work.
He instead continued to make his way through those unavoidable but surmountable five stages of grief, but between denial and anger and all of that, two things most stuck out:
One, the former Fresno State coach already is itching to get back to it, hours after he was relieved of his duties after a loss at Utah State left the Bulldogs 1-7 and 0-4 in the Mountain West this season and 4-16 and 2-10 over the past two years.