Good morning. There are two principle positives that I was able to glean from Saturday’s Washington State Cougars loss to BYU: it was a beautiful day and it ended quickly. Other than that, this was a monumental bummer; WSU really needed this win to bolster its bowl chances, and BYU is an average and beatable team. Unfortunately, it didn’t work out, and in another episode of “life isn’t the movies”, WSU wasn’t able to overcome one of the toughest weeks in athletic department history and write its Hollywood ending.
The players who were abandoned by their head coach (and several assistants) came out determined to put the events of the past week behind them, and for a minute there, it seemed like that was exactly what they’d done.