KENOSHA, Wis. They appeared Friday morning in black shorts and gray t-shirts and then spent the next hour doing nothing more than walking through plays. That is how the ‘Cats looked at their last practice in Kenosha, where they scrimmage on Saturday before returning home. “Seven straight practices, day off, six straight. I really thought they fought through it hard yesterday,” Pat Fitzgerald would later say, explaining this unusually-placid scene. “We usually do this walk-through on Friday night. But I wanted to get them off their legs a little more to have a better scrimmage tomorrow. So.”
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Before his team’s departure for Kenosha, Fitzgerald opined that it had laid the foundation for its season in Evanston and that now, up north, it was time for it to build floors onto that. Did it get that accomplished? “I really think
Things have not looked up in Pullman, Washington in recent years. The Washington State Cougars’ last Pac-10 win was on November 22, 2008. Outside of that victory at home, against a Washington Husky team that went winless for the season, you’d have to go back to 2007 to find a Pac-10 victory. Worse yet, none of the Cougars’ league games last year were even close. To say this team needs to put a conference game (or two) in the win column is an understatement. When that win (or more) comes no one knows, but it’s safe to say the quarterback will be Jeff Tuel.