Losses reveal more about a coach than wins. None more so than a game decided on the final play, against a highly favored rival. So, to examine the inner workings of coach Jake Dickert, we may review his press conference following Washington State’s dramatic loss to Washington last November.

Late afternoon heats into one of those blistering triple-digit early evenings in eastern Washington. Carrying smoke from a wildfire, the breeze feels like an acetylene torch. It’s mid-July in Cheney, and those with sense are at a lake or within arm’s reach of unlimited cold beverages. But in a small, windowless office on the Eastern Washington campus, Aaron Best is grinding. It’s what he does.

Lot of ways a story about Jason Eck can go. Most of them unpredictable. How’d the son of a long-time college basketball coach get caught up in this football racket? Why’d he pull an about-face on his mother’s wishes that he go to law school in favor of getting into coaching? And what can a person learn from the nomadic existence of a coach, having served under 12 head coaches in his 22 years as an assistant?

Roster space is crunched because the pressure to succeed leads FCS teams to accept transfers from FBS schools at higher rates than they used to. Eastern Washington, as just one example, has 27 transfers on its current roster. In 2020, it had four.

PULLMAN – Welcome to a new era in Washington State football.

If you’re following the Washington State Cougars on the road this season, there’s going to be some new cities to explore, aside from a Nov. 23 trip to Pac-12 rival Oregon State.

PULLMAN – Fa’alili Fa’amoe has a name for the get-togethers with the Washington State teammates he feels the closest to, with the group of guys he just calls the boys: Kava sessions.

It might feel a little tricky to keep track of all the changes happening around Washington State’s athletic department: Are the Cougars still in the Pac-12? Will they keep playing the Apple Cup against Washington? Who’s even on the schedule this year?

Eastern Washington enters this fall trying to avoid a third straight losing season, something the program hasn’t experienced since five consecutive such seasons from 1987 through 1991.

MOSCOW, Idaho – The Ol’ Walden Pond ball coach, Henry David Thoreau, predated the spread offense and the nickel defense. But he pointed the way to generations of successors who have puzzled over how to get their players to embrace the opportunities of the moment.

The Whitworth football team had a spectacular season a year ago.

Rod Sandberg would be an attractive head coaching candidate at many colleges. But the veteran Whitworth football coach isn’t looking.

SEATTLE – Jedd Fisch has been waiting for this week for nearly eight months.

Hello, and welcome to my news conference to preview the 2024 college football season. With so much radical change occurring at once, I figured some of you could use a primer on everything from realignment to the bigger College Football Playoff to new coaches at Alabama and Michigan, and more.