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Nose tackle Pono Lolohea leaves Washington State football team

He wasn’t in attendance for the Cougars’ scrimmage Saturday afternoon and posted a cryptic message from his Twitter account Sunday evening, writing “Sometimes you gotta move forward without looking back.”

PULLMAN — Jonathan “Pono” Lolohea, a junior college transfer who was competing for Washington State’s starting nose tackle job, has left the Cougar football team for unspecified reasons.

Lolohea wasn’t in attendance for the Cougars’ scrimmage Saturday afternoon and posted a cryptic message from his Twitter account Sunday evening, writing “Sometimes you gotta move forward without looking back.”

The 6-foot-3, 295-pound defensive lineman also posted the following tweet on Friday: “The dirt that’s been thrown on my name is false #TwoFace.