When it started here, we wanted to create a tradition. We had a bunch of enthusiastic athletes, but we never quite built a sustained thing. We had some success in the 1980s, but it went sour again. For the last few years we've had a team that was expected to win.
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He would come in and tell us what he thought we should be doing, and that what we were doing was all wrong.
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I'm totally numb. It really is a shock. I talked to him while he was on the recruiting trail with Texas Tech, and there were no obvious (physical) signs of anything going wrong.
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He had his quirks. We never had water. There was no water on the sidelines during practice in Cheney, Washington. It would be 100 degrees in Cheney and we would be paying ball boys to get us some ice cubes. They used to wrap them in towels you used to dry your face and you'd be chewing on ice.
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