A day or so after I departed Germany for the U.S. on 19 September, it started to rain. With precious few exceptions, it kept raining, kept raining, kept raining. That seems to parallel what’s happened to the Washington State Cougars as well, metaphorically anyway. When I got on the plane, WSU was 3-0 and a prohibitive favorite to be a spotless 4-0. Then it began to rain, and rain, and rain.
First came the epic collapse against the UCLA Bruins that so many people tried to explain away as a fluke, but was actually quite instructive as to who and what this team really is.