The Washington State cougars wasted no time filling their vacant coaching job as Sports Illustrated's Thayer Evans reports that Mike Leach has hired Western Kentucky's JaMarcus Shephard to coach inside receivers on the Palouse.
Shephard has spent the last two seasons as the Hilltoppers' wide receivers coach and added co-special teams coordinator title to his position this season. Shephard, 32, joined the WKU staff in 2013 as a quality control assistant under then-head coach Bobby Petrino.
Western Kentucky, coming off a 12-2 season and a No. 24 national ranking in the final Associated Press poll, finished the season with the No.