SEATTLE — After an on-field trophy celebration at Lumen Discipline following Washington State’s 24-19 win towards Washington within the Apple Cup, Cougars coach Jake Dickert burst into the postgame information convention room with a cigar in hand.
“Who’s received a lighter?” he requested.
Within the rivalry sport’s first nonconference model after UW’s departure for the Huge Ten, it was a memorable win for this system and college left behind.
“I feel we’d retire this trophy. I feel it’s a Pac-12 trophy,” Dickert stated. “I feel that may keep in our place for a very long time and we’ll carry a brand new one subsequent 12 months — somewhat Huge Ten- Pac-12 on.”
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Dickert’s feedback appeared to return in jest, however there was no denying how significant the win was to him and this system.
“It is 1A and 1B,” stated Dickert, evaluating it to the group’s Apple Cup win in 2021, when he was the interim coach. Dickert was made the everlasting coach the following day by then-athletic director Pat Chun, who left for a similar job with the Huskies in March.
“Simply to see these guys and the celebrations and the relationships which were constructed after which go on the market and do it,” Dickert stated. “In our time right here, we’re 3-0 towards the Huge Ten. That is an enormous deal.”
Dickert added: “One of the best factor I stated to those guys after within the locker room is that now that that is Week 3, this is not the top of the season. Usually [after the Apple Cup], you are preparing for a bowl sport and no matter else, however we’re simply getting began, so we will have to essentially wash this fast.”
The sport’s consequence was in query till the top. Trailing 24-19, Washington moved the ball to the WSU 9-yard line with two minutes to play, establishing 4 probabilities on the finish zone to take the lead.
Going through fourth-and-goal from the 1, Huskies coach Jedd Fisch initially known as for a handoff to working again Jonah Coleman however did not just like the WSU defensive entrance he noticed and known as timeout. Fisch modified the playcall to an choice to the precise — the brief facet of the sector — which known as for quarterback Will Rogers to pitch the ball to Coleman.
It was doomed from the beginning. The UW offensive line did not get any push and WSU linebacker Kyle Thornton had a transparent shot to make a play behind the road of scrimmage to protect the lead.
“That is on me. I made a foul name,” Fisch stated. “We did not execute the decision. We misplaced the sport, so I will take that. I am the playcaller, I am accountable and we did not get it performed.”
Fisch stated that they had practiced that play all week and the plan coming into the sport was for it to be the “got-to-have-it name” if the Huskies wanted a yard.
As a substitute, it is going to be a choice that might be second-guessed for years in a uncommon impartial website taking part in of the rivalry.
WSU quarterback John Mateer had one other electrical efficiency for the Cougars, speeding for 62 yards and two first-half touchdowns, together with a 25-yard designed run on third-and 20 to offer the Cougars a 17-13 lead with 21 seconds left within the first half. He accomplished 17 of 34 passes for 245 yards with one other rating.