WSU Weekly Update: Eat this UW!

While the basketball team is going through crunch time as they battle Arizona and Stanford for positioning in the Pac-10 Conference for basketball, it's also crunch time for football coach Paul Wulff with the National Signing Day looming on Wednesday.

And how is he handling it? According to the Seattle Times, he's doing it with plenty of Bravado:

Can the Cougars continue to come to the Puget Sound area and yank the tail of the Huskies for prospects?

"Yeah," the WSU coach responded quickly. "We're going to go in there. All we need is a player, and parents, to listen to us and let us show what we have to offer.

"If they're truly going to listen to us, I like our chances."

Game on.

Woohoo! Coug fans have to estatic that not only did Tyrone Willingham run the Huskies program in to the ground but now they have a head coach that actually recruits and recruits well. Nevermind that guy, what's his name, Bill "Only marginally talented players will do" Doba.

I've said this time and time again, Wulff is perfectly suited for Pullman because he's used to getting kids to come out to a farming community after spending all those years out in Cheney as EWU's football coach. I'm sure he's developed quite the sales pitch after getting recruits like Erik Meyer and Eric Kimble to come out to EWU.

Like really, what did he tell them?

"Zips is open 24-hours a day, so if you ever get hungry, you know where to go. And did I mention we'll be building an ice rink in oh, about five years."

Seriously, the man is a genius.

WSU Weekly Update: Oregon Massacre

Oregon basketball fans are wondering if they're going to be going through a season like Washington football fans just went through.

Oregon State (6-10 overall, 1-5 conference) - an improved, but still have a long way to go in a tough, tough conference.

Oregon (6-12 overall, 0-6 conference) - Well, disappointing would be an understatement.

And WSU beat them both, thanks largely to the play of Taylor Rochestie, who had 44 points during the road trip but that still did not warrant enough to get Player of the Week honors from the Pac-10. Vince Grippi from the Spokesman-Review is not happy.

Who's next? UCLA and USC. A little tougher than the second to last and last place teams in the Pac-10 but at least the games are in Pullman.