Week after week, the WSU flag waved behind the set, with the goal soon becoming to get the ESPN show to come to Pullman. On Saturday, that will happen for the first time. Pounds is making the trip up to wave the flag.
PULLMAN — Fifteen years ago, when Tom Pounds drove 700 miles from his home in Albuquerque, N.M., to Austin, Texas, to show off his homemade Washington State University flag behind the set of ESPN’s “College GameDay,” he had no idea what a tradition it would become.
“It was purely school spirit — a Coug thing,” Pounds said this week.