Cougcenter: For Washington State Cougars Fans

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We are back to normal-ish with a bang! Our thoughts first on the possible return of college sports this fall then Washington State Cougars football coach Nick Rolovich joins the show to talk coaching and recruiting during the pandemic. Plus, a weird skill he's learning with more time at home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show rundown: Empty stadiums? There were some soccer games in Germany with no fans, and it was extremely weird to watch on TV. Is this even a viable solution for college football? APR: Ernie Kent left WSU one final parting "gift" -- a terrible APR score for his final season. Coug Soccer: Trinity Rodman is the top high school player in the country, and she's coming to WSU. This isn't news, but The Athletic wrote a nice story on her, so let's talk about it, since her experience with deciding to go to WSU sounds so much like so many of ours. Football recruiting: The Cougs picked up a pair of new defensive linemen. Woo! Workouts resume soon: The NCAA has cleared schools for individual workouts, subject to local regulations. This seems like a safe, logical step. Fancy Da-Da. DORTMUND TALK: We just assumed all of you turned it off by this point so we decided to talk about our LIFELONG favorite team for a little bit. Subscribe to us on ... iTunes  Google Play  Spotify  Stitcher  Learn more ab

A basketball season remembered by many students as the catalyst to their Wazzu fandom to this day! We MegaCast the 2006-2007 season with Craig Powers, Kevin Dudley, Mark Sandritter and Zane Murfitt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show rundown: TWO Apple Cups? That might be a possibility in 2020, thanks to COVID-19. We'd rather avoid that, thanks. Ticket refunds? Let's continue with the coronavirus theme and talk about WSU's plan for dealing with a potential cancellation of the 2020 season. Their options for season ticket holders is ... interesting. Recruiting! WSU landed a pair of offensive linemen over the past week. Let's talk about them a little. Congrats, Coach Andrzejek! The WSU assistant, who has been on the show a couple of times, got named to a neat list of bright young coaches at ESPN. We're thrilled. Subscribe to us on ... iTunes  Google Play  Spotify  Stitcher  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show rundown: Football recruiting: A week ago, we wondered if the lack of football commits was worrisome. Well, we don't have to worry anymore with Orion Peters in the fold. Basketball recruiting (27:00ish): 247Sports finally got around to evaluating most of Kyle Smith's class, and the news is good! Let's celebrate our analytic overlord. We also spent some time projecting the 2020-21 season with BartTorvik.com's projections for next season. There's one thing in there that's pretty surprising! Subscribe to us on ... iTunes  Google Play  Spotify  Stitcher  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our favorite memory series continues as we go as far back into the wayback machine as we've gone for one episode. KHQ's Blake Jensen, a proud Wazzu alum, shares his memories of the men's basketball team's 2007 upset of the Arizona Wildcats that started a magical first run under Tony Bennett. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show rundown: WSU in NFL: Four guys are set to make a run at roster spots, but only one was drafted -- Dez Patmon. However, we like the chances for Anthony Gordon, Fred Mauigoa and Easop Winston to impress their teams. Recruiting (51:00ish): WSU has zero football commits. We're ... kinda worried? But not really. NCAA NIL (1:02:00ish): A committee has recommended that college athletes should be allowed to make endorsement money. We are absolutely for this and don't think it will make things worse for a program like WSU -- in fact, it might make it better! NCAA VIDEO GAMES? (1:12:00ish): Could this mean a return of the NCAA franchise? Let's talk about video games. Subscribe to us on ... iTunes  Google Play  Spotify  Stitcher  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a game burned in to your memory, or one play anyway. Falk to Marks, back of the endzone, touchdown. Wazzu beats UCLA. Relive it all again with our continuing series on our favorite WSU memories, this time with Ben Wineman, an evening news anchor at ABC-FOX Montana! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ken Pomeroy is the purveyor of kenpom.com, the most essential website in college basketball analytics. John Andrzejek is an assistant coach at WSU, dubbed the program's director of analytics. And we, of course, are a couple of college basketball nerds. LET'S GET NERDY TOGETHER. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

WSU win over USC in 2013 isn't exactly known for superb play by both sides but it did produce wonderful memories for CougCenter's Craig Powers. Horton's picks and one loud mouth USC fan later, Craig has memories that will last a lifetime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There are a lot of old, famous WSU games that Jeff and Craig aren't old enough to have watched live. Thanks to the miracle of YouTube, we can rectify that while we're devoid of sports! Up first this week: Watching the 1982 Apple Cup, a 24-20 upset of the No. 5 Washington Huskies. You can watch with us -- we'll tell you when to press play on the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUhlwKcSsNg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Our first solo look at an Apple Cup victory since our series began as we dive back into the 2005 Apple Cup with our own Zane Murfitt. An otherwise forgettable season made one heck of a lasting impression with a last second win over the Huskies to salvage an otherwise horrible October and November of football. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show rundown: Dishon Jackson: Cougar basketball picked up a commitment from a 4-star center, and that's not something WSU basketball usually does -- further validating the job Kyle Smith is doing as the head man in Pullman. CJ Elleby and the NBA Draft (25:00ish): Could WSU's leading player leave the team after his sophomore season? We're not so sure. Over/under on WSU football (54:00ish): At least one sports book has set the Cougs' total for next fall at six wins. That ... seems about right, we guess? Let's talk it out. Subscribe to us on ... iTunes  Google Play  Spotify  Stitcher  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We needed more than 90 minutes just to go over the two biggest games in program history: the 1997 Apple Cup that catapulted WSU to the promised land in Pasadena. Part II of our MegaCast on the 1997 season examines the games, and what we remember from a wonderful 45 days of Cougars history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show rundown: Bryce Beekman: The WSU safety's life was cut short, too soon. Nick Rolovich's "Cougar Madness" bracket (23:00ish): The 1997 Apple Cup won the coach's greatest game bracket. As it should be. Extra eligibility for spring sports (49:00ish): Covid-19 has canceled spring sports, but the NCAA is allowing a little bit of flexibility. However, it might not be as great of a solution as it sounds. Subscribe to us on ... iTunes  Google Play  Spotify  Stitcher  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With no live sports to talk about, we continue our series of looking into the best parts of WSU athletics past. This time, we harken back to way may be the greatest season in school history. To do it, we need help from CougCenter's Jeff Nusser, Kyle Sherwood, PJ Kendall and Scott Cresswell to cover the first 10 games of that incredible 1997 season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With there being a dearth of WSU-related topics to talk about, we went back to a feature we've done in the past: Everyone in 60, where we rewatch a classic game in its stripped down, 60-minute form, and talk about our thoughts and feelings as it unfolded. This time, we look back at the Bowl Bowl -- WSU vs. OSU 2019. Show rundown: Intro: Just a little bit of catching up on life as we work from home before touching on our beers and then introducing this week's game. WSU 54, OSU 53 - 2019 (34:00ish): Winner goes to a bowl, loser probably stays home. And it was a crazy back-and-forth affair in which WSU went from up by double digits in the fourth quarter to down by double digits in a span of a few minutes, only to come back and win it on a Max Borghi touchdown with two seconds left. Relive it with us! Subscribe to us on ... iTunes  Google Play  Spotify  Stitcher  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Show rundown: Interview: If you ever wanted a peek behind the curtain of WSU basketball, this is it! Assistant John Andrzejek stopped by the show for the first hour, and as you can imagine, we talked about A LOT of stuff! We started by talking about the current situation with COVID-19, then revisited the momentous win over Colorado, before nerding out a bit by exploring how they turned the program around and the role that analytics plays in what they do. WSU stuff (1:16:00ish): Gardner Minshew is the new presumptive starter in Jacksonville. Andre Dillard has thoughts about Mike Leach. We have our own thoughts about those things! Subscribe to us on ... iTunes  Google Play  Spotify  Stitcher  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices