When Nick Rolovich heads to the sideline today for Washington State’s Family Weekend game against Stanford, there’s a chance that he’ll be doing it for the final time as the Cougars’ coach.
Rolovich, who announced in July that he was not vaccinated against Covid, confirmed last weekend that has remained unvaccinated and is seeking a religious exemption to Gov. Jay Inslee’s mandate that all state employees either attain fully vaccinated status by Monday or receive an exemption with accommodations.
Any state employee not in compliance will be fired, and Rolovich — the state’s highest-paid employee at $3 million per year — has not indicated one way or the other whether he has received both the exemption and accommodations necessary to continue his employment.