Disappointing? Yes. Encouraging? Also yes.
It’s a phrase that is now overused and cliché after the past 18 months, but let’s be honest: Phrases become overused and cliché for a reason, and it sure seems apt to describe the last seven days of Washington State football.
If Nick Rolovich’s firing feels that way to me — and I’m just some internet rando (albeit a heavily invested internet rando) who writes about the team in his spare time — I can only imagine how long it felt to the people who actually were affected by Rolovich’s decision to get himself fired and leave them in the lurch.