Football: Bringing it home

Underneath senior linebacker Kaden Elliss’s worn gray sweatband is a blue bracelet that reads ‘Hilinski’s Hope’ in Washington State crimson.

The band has been on Elliss’s wrist for the past week since Mark Hilinski spoke to the Idaho football team Oct. 1.

“I like it actually, a lot,” Elliss said of the wrist band. “I never thought I would wear something that had red or anything to do with Washington State, but this has a lot to do with a lot more than that and a lot more important than football and schools. It is a good reminder.”

Hilinski, the father of the late WSU quarterback Tyler Hilinski, spoke to the team after several months of back-and-forth correspondence with Idaho Head Coach Paul…