Washington State officially introduced Jake Dickert as its 34th football head coach with the obligatory news conference on Thursday, and it looks like his staff is already starting to come together with reports that he has hired his defensive coordinator.
Football Scoop is reporting that Dickert has landed Nevada defensive coordinator Brian Ward, who was there for two years and previously held the same position at Syracuse, where he was fired after the 2019 season. The Wolf Pack were middle of the road in Mountain West defensive stats overall, but they were second in the conference in takeaways and first in sacks, which seems to jive with Dickert’s philosophy.