Gabe Marks came to the Palouse as the first - and until the most recent recruiting cycle, only - four-star wide receiver recruit in the Mike Leach era. Originally committed to SMU, the Venice, California product rescinded his commitment to the Dallas school and flipped to Washington State after learning of Leach’s hire. Fulfilling something of a childhood dream, Marks had the opportunity to catch passes in the vaunted Air Raid offense under one of the system’s principal architects. According to Marks, via the ESPN Pac-12 blog, “Every time [he] sat down to play his NCAA Football 08 video game there was one team he always picked -- Texas Tech.