From Riley Sorenson and River Cracraft to Luke Falk, Jamal Morrow and Cody O'Connell, the Cougars' 2013 recruiting class might go down as one of the best in program history. Their singular goal: To turn the program around.
When Washington State first expressed interest in senior offensive tackle Cole Madison, the Burien native and longtime Husky fan almost didn’t bother taking a visit.
“I’ll be blunt, I thought (WSU football) was kind of a joke,” Madison says. “I had no drive to come here, to be honest.”
Kicker Erik Powell grew up in-state, in Vancouver, but sheepishly admits to not knowing where WSU’s campus was when the Cougars’ first approached him.