Injuries ravaged the Cougars last season giving several players time to get into games.
LEWISTON, Idaho – Ken Wilson relays the same message to his inside linebackers every year. Maybe they’ll find some real value in his words and decide to put them into motion. Maybe they won’t.
They hear it nonetheless.
“We’ve got to train you like you’re going to play,” Wilson preaches. “I tell them that all the time. I’m like, you may be on one special team, but we’ve got to train you like you’re going to play.”
Perhaps those words haven’t resonated with every player Wilson has inherited in his six years on Mike Leach’s staff at Washington State, but there’s no doubt the inside-linebackers coach got through to a specific trio of redshirt freshmen in 2017.