The Monday After: The worst is finally over

Disappointing? Yes. Encouraging? Also yes.

It’s a phrase that is now overused and cliché after the past 18 months, but let’s be honest: Phrases become overused and cliché for a reason, and it sure seems apt to describe the last seven days of Washington State football.

If Nick Rolovich’s firing feels that way to me — and I’m just some internet rando (albeit a heavily invested internet rando) who writes about the team in his spare time — I can only imagine how long it felt to the people who actually were affected by Rolovich’s decision to get himself fired and leave them in the lurch.

For me, Nick Rolovich invariably will be nothing more than a weird footnote in WSU football history, just one…