Nick Rolovich stressed the importance of recruiting in the Evergreen State when he was introduced as Washington State’s new coach last month.
More urgent was the need to ink a few more defensive backs to round out the Cougars’ 2020 signing class.
Rolovich and his staff have done a little of both in the last few days.
On Super Bowl Sunday, the Cougars received a commitment from Chau Smith, a 5-foot-11, 175-pound defensive back from Chicago’s Simeon Vocational High, and doubled up on the position when three-star Kentwoood prospect Alphonse Oywak announced his own commitment to WSU on Monday night.